More random entries from the important to the trivial in no specific order:
1. Now that Barack Obama made a heartfelt speech about his former pastor, racism and the tendency of the news media to focus on horse race trivia at the expense of issues, it should be time again for the news media to firmly refocus on horse race trivia and strategy.
2. It's five years and counting for the Iraq War. Years ago, I wrote a poem which ended with the line "We'll always be in Iraq." As a friend pointed out yesterday, Americans who can't imagine a life without sport utility vehicles should take some blame for a continued occupation and supervision of Iraqis because in part of our gluttonous intake of oil glorious oil.
3. Time for Trey Parker and Matt Stone to end SOUTH PARK. I saw two-thirds of the "Imaginationland" three-parter when it first aired (now it's being sold, with some extra material, as a "movie" on DVD) and it was a semi-lame affair which reminded me that Parker/Stone were able to do a similar concept (the classic MechaStreisand episode) in just a half-hour over a decade ago. And the show's just-aired "leave Britney alone" affair retreated into tired genre parody (horror films of the CHILDREN OF THE CORN/HARVEST HOME variety) when the real thing (Lynne and possibly Jamie Spears dragging Britney out of recuperation for a publicity-op guest appearance on HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER) ought to have been a ripe-with-possibilities satirical target.
4. Is it ratings or some kind of intranetwork passive-aggressiveness behind CNN's multiple airings of the recent LARRY KING LIVE episode with Janet Jackson (highlighted by Janet teaching Larry how to bust a few backup-dancer moves)?
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