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WOW! At just a minute past midnight I just happened to surf over to Wikipedia to do a little research when I discovered that today is SOPA day on the internet. I had know this was coming, in order to protest the fatally flawed anti-internet piracy act which had at one time seemed fated to fly through Congress, sites like Google, Facebook and Wikipedia were planning a protest. But seeing that blacked out page where Wikipedia should be was really stunning.

Just read David Brooks column in the NYTimes about the race in South Carolina.
Apparently he brought along his 12 year old son to size up the candidates. The kid liked all of them except Newt Gingrich, who became uncomfortable with the boy's questions on gay marriage -- and then called for security to get Brook's son away from him. Hilarious!!! The kid sounds kind of weird, thought. His heroes include John Boehner and Tupac Shakur. What is Brooks doing to this kid???
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/17/opinion/south-carolina-diarist.html?_r...

If you haven't heard about this, you should do yourself a favor and Google the word "Santorum," as in Rick Santorum, the Gay hating conservative from Penn. who's running for President. Despite the fact that Santorum came in second in the Iowa Caucuses, the first search result which comes up is a fake one started by writer Dan Savage as a way of tweaking Rick for all of his anti-gay rhetoric. Very funny and clever use of search engine results!

Okay, I was bad this week and spent some time on vacation in Vegas rather than doing commentary on the Iowa Caucuses. But based on the total lack of excitement or passion the Caucuses seem to have produced in the Republican electorate, I think my time in Vegas may have been well spent, because the whole nomination process seems to be closer to a drunken gambling spree in las Vegas rather than a thoughtful, reasoned attempt to replace Obama with a Republican President.

You can see Gingrich crying about his mother here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDju7UT-Fp8
I don't like to think about him being so calculating, but the timing on this one is incredible. Just as he's sinking in the polls in Iowa, he appears before a group of Mothers and cries about his own mother. This is, understand, the demographic which probably hates the guy the most, after the way he cheated on and divorced two of his previous wives -- one while she was in the hospital recovering from cancer surgery.

Well, this is the time of year when most people are putting together their New Years Resolutions, but with Newt Gingrich being so busy on the campaign trail, I thought he might need a little help with his, so here are some suggestions

1.) People hate know-it-alls. Try acting a little befuddled. It worked for Reagan and W.
2.) Send Callista to Hairspray rehab and get her off the stuff. No one wants a First Lady who looks like she’s wearing a blonde motorcycle helmet all the time.

I've spent way too much of my life watching political coverage of Presidential Politics, but one of the trade-offs is that its left me with an ability to know when something's missing in the coverage on CNN, MSNBC, ABC and all the others -- with the exception of Fox News Channel, which I only watch on rare occasions.

WOW! I can't believe it's taken this long, but the site is back working correctly, which means that I will again be posting regularly to the site! For whatever its worth, my problem turned out to be with my hosting at Midphase : " it appears that this issue was indeed being caused by an error with a rule inside of mod_security. I have now added a mod_security rule exception for your account."
Not that I know what that means!
Onward!

Like a LOT of people out there, I'm really annoyed/pissed at Bank of America for adding the $5.00 fee for the use of a Debit card. To put it simply, it's not cool. . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyEhgQ3Iihs

Here's my political review of Alec Baldwin's record breaking appearance (he's hosted more than anyone) on Saturday Night Live:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUflzeQX14o
There was quite a lot of funny stuff in the Republican Debate Spoof. Baldwin must have had a lot of fun playing Rick Perry.