"GAY IN THE US OF A"

During his re-election campaign the elder Bush wanted to show the American people he was just like them. In a horribly planned Public Relations stunt Bush went to a grocery store and had to check out his groceries. He was completely fascinated by the scanner which had already been standard fare in most grocery stores. It showed he was out of touch with middle class America and gave his opponent fuel for the fire. Now granted most rich people in his position aren’t going to be doing daily routines for themselves but it made Bush look foolish.

A few weeks ago Bush made it his position on gay marriage quite clear. Now of course my friends and readers know that I am more conservative than liberal. However I honestly don’t have a problem about letting same sex marriage fly in this country. I mean if they love each other and already live together than why not let them wed? I have more of a problem with all the idiotic “reality” shows on TV that splash clown makeup all over the sanctity of marriage. Marriage should be a wonderful beautiful thing between not the premise for some lowbrow reality series. Strangers that meet each other to film a tv show in 30 days and wed based on money in front of cameras isn’t what a marriage should be about. Shows like Married by America make me sick. At least Joe Gay Guy and his partner actually love each other.

Do I think homosexuality is wrong? If you remember the gay sheep story I tend to agree that people are generally born gay. Granted some people become gay from unnatural ways, many people that were sexually abused turn gay and I doubt many of them would have been otherwise. In some cases is just the person is totally messed up on drugs and doesn’t know either way. I will never understand how another man can’t find anything remotely interesting about amazingly hot women, but it doesn’t mean I think its wrong.

Anyway this article is not about me, its about Bush. I honestly would like to know if that is Bush’s honest feeling towards gay marriage or his if his advisors told him to play the angle a certain way to appeal to the people that are likely to vote for him anyway or on the fence. Now if Bush honestly believes that same sex marriage should illegal (well technically he wants to be left up to the states but he obviously wouldn’t go through the trouble if he was pro-gay marriage) than I give him all the credit in the world. Say what you want about Bush, but he certainly doesn’t take into the consideration what the masses want when he makes a decision but he does what thinks what is good for the country. Agree with it or not he seemingly stands up for what he at least appears to believe in.


Now if Bush did this only as a tactic than perhaps he should fire whoever whispers in his ear. Because I am fairly sure that taking that side of the issue makes you appear out of touch of the mindset of the American people. It is like marveling over the invention of the checkout scanner in the American’s people’s eyes when homosexuality has become so mainstream.

One of the biggest stories of 2003 was how Gay America pretty much turned a corner to being accepted. American’s seems gay crazy! I mean look at all the popular shows, Queer as Folk, The “L” Word and of course Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. Numerous prominent gay celebrities and gay sitcom characters had their faces plastered all over the covers of magazines. Queer Eye For the Straight Guy is so popular that countless radio contests, rip-offs and parodies have been made of the young show. One of the FAB FIVE (I think Thom) has been named the new spokesman for Peir One. Do you really think a company would have used an openly gay person to sell their company 5 years ago? It is almost square to be heterosexual anymore, we even came up with the buzz word Metrosexual for the people who don’t like men sexually but want to act and dress really gay.

As of right now I think the election is relatively close race. People need to know about Kerry, but Bush left himself open to be painted “insensitive” and “intolerant” by calling gay marriage to be unconstitutional. It was a bold move to make a statement, since it will likely never be passed. However if the articles I read are true that more younger voters will vote than ever before (I don’t really buy young people are still lazy) than Bush could have cooked his goose by making this move. Regardless I think he lost more potential voters than gained by making that move. I don’t have a problem with gay people (although I hate it when they have to keep reminding us how gay they are like Rosie) but at the same time I really don’t have a problem with people who do think homosexuality is wrong.

***** ECHELON MALL MIGHT BE UP FOR SALE AGAIN*****

“PREIT Ponders Echelon Mall Project”


Well maybe the Courier-Post reads my blog or something. A few days after I broke the story about the Echelon Mall trying to sway IKEA into filling an anchor store the Courier-Post ran an article stating the same. However their sources obviously more informed than mine also talked about how Dave and Busters is on their wish list.

Okay now having a bar in a mall might seem way out there. However back in the day (before we were old enough to remember) the Echelon Mall actually had a steakhouse with a bar. That was back in the mall’s prime. Not to mention you can wet your whistle at Deptford or Cherry Hill Malls. Putting a Dave and Buster’s in the mall would really turn things around. However I just don’t see it happening. For one thing I am not sure if the people of Voorhees would go for that although their problems with drunks would confined to the mall area and not neighborhoods I think they would fear the people that would take the train from Camden going there causing problems. I know that sounds messed up but it’s the truth.

That doesn’t even take into the consideration of the headache of getting a liquor license. How many bars are there now in the town of Voorhees? Are there any left? As for the IKEA rumor I don’t doubt they were in negotiations, but I don’t see it happening. I would imagine if they were close they would have told all the stores that were jumping ship how close they were in order to keep people there.

Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust (PREIT) who purchased the mall over a year ago has failed miserably to stop the ship from sinking. The Courier talked about how clean the mall has been since PREIT bought the mall. Well less traffic means less trash. Not really something to brag about.

Since I wrote my last article Sam Goody left after 30 years of service and I don’t know when but the pet store is gone too. The week that PREIT started feeding the local papers fluff about trying to get more involved in the community rumors surfaced that PREIT is looking to unload their miserable purchase. That is right I am beating the papers to the punch again and telling you right now that PREIT is looking for a buyer for either the mall itself or the actual grounds the later being more likely. Perhaps they have made a deadline first to see if they actually score an anchor store, but I can’t imagine how much that land the mall stands on is worth.

PREIT claims that might use an empty anchor store for job conventions which is a good idea because people would likely wonder off and spend money. However I think PREIT is either regretting getting on this purchase and simply doesn’t have the right people working on the public relations or marketing of the mall (hey I contacted them to try to get them to hire me to do their PR) or this purchase was never ment to succeed. I still stand by my claim that people want to shop at that mall, but they just need a reason to shop there.

Coming soon:

Tucker sizes up Bush's chances

Tucker writes about Hockey related stuff.

EL PLATO LOCO

"EL PLATO LOCO!"

The spot where Cucci's Pizza once stood is now being filled by a Mexican restaurant called EL PLATO LOCO. I don't really for Mexican food, but I have a developed a morbid curiosity toward the business for whether or not it will succeed.

One of these days I will actually go in an try their food most likely with my girlfriend who actually enjoys meixcan food. I feel the same way Jerry did on Seinfeld when BaBo opened a Pakistainan resturant.

I actually drive by after I get off a 10-6 shift to count the people in there. Yesterday one couple. Today nobody. This will be a lot easier to follow than the La Strada the Italian resturant with Cezch. owners. It failed miserably after being located at seemingly cursed location just a few miles down the White HOrse Pike from El PLATO LOCO. I don't know if the owners have resorted to sadly staring out the window like the owners of La Strada just yet.

I sure hope those Cezch. guys are going to be okay. I beg of everyone to go to El PLATO LOCO. Then perhaps I can stop worrying about their business venture and if it will fail or not.

KINGDOM HOSPITIAL
On Ch. 6 ABC on Weds at 9pm Stephen King's Kingdom Hospitial will air. Its based on a book by the same name, and I am calling this one to be a worthwhile. I just want to say that I jumped on board for this early, it might actually become a weekly series. Maybe it will suck and if that is the case you can send me angry emails to me.

I wish I got more people to watch the Handler on CBS which seems as though its going to be cancelled soon. It hasn't aired in over a month and CBS needs another freaking CSI for next fall. Bunch of stupid jerks.

"Tucker Waves a Flag"

Earlier tonight I posted about the film the Passion of Christ and pissed off Drew with a few comments that I made. In order to put it to rest the story has been deleted and I have since apologized to Drew.

I certainly wouldn't worry about it though since no one reads my blog, and certainly not on a Friday night. I still plan to review the film at a later date.

"Sterling Alumni in the Papers"


This is from the Courier-Post I know the girl he goes on a blinde date. To set up the article if you don't read this weekly column (I doubt most of you actually do) it is basically about being single in South Jersey.

http://www.courierpostonline.com/columnists/cxka022404a.htm

"Old Man Winter Says Good-bye"
Since its windows down weather I think its safe to assume that my Snow forecasting is done till Novermber. I never really have much faith in any snow storms in March even though we got a little bit of Snow last April.

Spring is as good as hear with maybe a few cold days here and there but you can pretty much put your shovel away and get ready to jump and skip in the spring weather.

The reason for my calling it quits for the Winter is the weather pattern of the last two weeks. If you notice I didn't even bother mentioning last weeks major storm threat that turned into nothing, simply because are chance to get the big one is about very slim right at this point.

So my record is 4-2 and as a fan of the Canadian like weather January was fun since it was really cold, but we never really got nailed all winter. Februrary was a huge let down snow wise and cold weather wise.


FINAL RECORD 4-2

Oh well there is always Hurricane season.

“Nader Swings into Action”

Some time after I recovered from vomiting and pooping everywhere almost every democrat began doing just that after watching Meet the Press Sunday. Ralph Nader is back in the bid for the White House. Well since Nader had people vote for him in Florida who likely would have voted for Gore the state was lost to Bush. Of course there was that whole hanging chad thing. Depending on who you actually believe about the true winner of Florida it never would have came down to hanging chads if it weren’t for Nader. I honestly think that Bush actually did win the state, but I am not going to open that can of worms.

Nader came out swinging bashing Bush and how White House politics cater to the businesses over the little guy. Bush of course easily the biggest example of having his hands tied to big companies. Even people who may not think he sacrifices the nation’s safety for Oil can’t deny that he has friends in the business. So perhaps Nader thinks this is his year simply because average Joe American thinks the war in Iraq was done in order to make people rich and nothing else.

However many Democrats are now thinking that Nader is in coo hoots with Bush and wants take away votes from the democrat hopeful. I was listening to Howard Eskin and the caller was going on about how Nader is getting paid by Bush to help steer the election in favor of reelection. Even liberal bloggers are starting to think Nader is up to no good. This theory is really starting to get some legs, of course its based no evidence at all.

However I really don’t think Nader is going to do much of anything this time other than blow hot air and help make the democrats make Bush look bad. First off he is not running for the Green Party this time but as an independent which means he will get less money and it will be a challenge to even get on the ballet in some states. You can write him in, but we all know how dumb and lazy people are. So I really don’t see him swinging the election this time if anything the democrats will just steal his words to use against Bush. That would coincide with their early stages of their election plan, turn people against Bush.


Secondly, when most Americans vote (the few that actually do) many of them are going to wonder if the person they are voting for would have to the balls to stand up against terrorism or do anything that has to be done. It really depends on if they feel safe if God forbid something else happens in the US. Or even to keep anyone from messing with us like that again to begin with. People I just think look at Nader as too much of a wimp. I just get the feeling that even people who voted for him last time will likely think that he is in over his head in a post 9/11 world. Hell I think terrorist organizations would see Nader as gift sent from Allah.

So to sum up I really don’t think Nader will do much to throw this election in either direction really. I don’t think Nader is on Bush’s payroll. I assume in his mind he thinks he can win unless he just trying to make a statement. This time it would cost him a lot more to make a statement so he is either very confident or crazy. At best 20 years from now he might be seen as trailblazer for a third party system that I still believe is possible. I mean look how divided this country is on some issues you have to wonder if someone can find the middle market in the next two decades if things continue. Nader is just too washed up, and actually is too far liberal. So if Nader thinks he can win I imagine he has very little fear in his heart from either potential democrat candidate and sees himself on an even plane with who ever comes out of the west. I mean who every gets the nomination. Maybe he thinks the democrat candidates are very weak, and perhaps many people from the Donkey party feel the same way which is why they are so scared.


“My God even Nader thinks he beat are hopefuls!”


Which begs the question why was I listening to Howard Eskin

"Light Rail Goes Dark"


I wrote on here before about the Light Rail now known as the Riverline and how what a disaster it has been. The project started back in 2001 and has literally cost the state a billion dollars at this point. Pretty sad since it hasn't even started running yet.

The Light Rail is supposed to connect Camden to Trenton and take some cars off the busy highways. However you can't use the train to get to Philly lines or rail lines in Trenton to go to NYC. If you go to Camden from a Northern point you have to get back before 10 pm because the train stops running then. So it can't really be used for Riversharks games or concerts.

When last I wrote I mentioned all the major problems the River Line has suffered. Since than it has gotten worse. It was supposed to start running last week, but of course it isn't. The main reason for this is that the intersections are still not done properly. The drop signs at crossways with intersections have actually come down on cars. I am not making this up.

So the state is still saying when they finally get it up and running (they don't even bother giving it a date anymore) no one is going to ride it. Not to mention it takes well over an hour to get from Camden to Trenton. I imagine that they will just continue with this project. Sadly though all the tax money that went to this mostly the only people that know about it is are the poor people who have this disaster slicing through their town. It can't really be for people without cars either since most of the stops are hard to get to by foot.

So basically are tax money went to people who made horrible decisions with no thought to if anyone would actually use this train. Also people take 4 years and counting to even get the damn thing to work. I guess all the state workers that have had jobs for the past 4 years might by happy to vote a certain way.

People in this state bitch about our taxes. Its one of the reasons they are so high. I can't imagine that this project was ever supposed to succeed. If it was that how come no one that works for the state thinks its a good idea? Anyone who made this decision was either really dumb or got is passed without any else double checking that idea of just a project. No matter how you look at it is just plain awful. My thought is somewhere a group of people got really really rich off this.

The thing that really gets me is how few people know about this total misuse of tax money. God knows how many other examples are out there.

"Be back soon"

Sorry for the lack of posts this week I have fallen ill. I have had a horrible stomach flu...check back later today or this weekend for updates.

"Welcome to Comcast Country V: The Evil Empire"

John keeps telling me no one wants to read about Comcast and no one cares. However Comcast is one of the number of on going stories I have covered on this blog. Most my readers know the way the cable company has blocked their sportsnet work from the DISH giving people in this area no option if they want to see the Sixers, Flyers and Phillies. They are also known for their awful service and dumb repairman who rarely show up.

Anyway this past week they tried buying the struggling DISNEY. WOW. What a huge, huge company this would be. What most people didn't mention is that they would actually own two hockey teams. They would also have the option to pull the dirty trick they have been pulling on South Jersey for years. Disney owns ABC who owns ESPN, could they pull ESPN from all the dish providers? I don't see why not. Would that? Hmmmm... Perhaps.

The hostile take over never happened, but that doesn't mean that mouse won't be a member of Comcast Country before the end of the year. There seem to be a number of questions that could arise if this deal ever happens.

“Sinking Echelon 2: Empty Spaces”



I am expecting to attend a job fair in Vineland later this week and although I have modest expectations for it being worth my time I was in need of a new shirt for a suit I was recently given. I went to Boscov’s in order to get the chore done before the Flyers game. I decided I was in the market for a few other things and figured I would venture out to the mall.

This was a good time to write a follow up to Sinking Echelon an article I wrote on the decline of the Mall from the glory days. I predicted that after Santa Clause made his rounds that it more stores were likely to close up shop for good. For awhile a bit of hope glimmered and rumors drifted around that an Ikea was going to open up in one of the vacant anchor stores, and it would be announced after New Years. It’s almost March and it would appear that this is not the case.

Well things haven’t been going all that great. The popular food court stop Popeye’s closed. It was odd since it was one of the more successful places in the dismal mall. However many rumors surfaced that it closed because it was actually a drug front. The Mattress store above the food court pulled out as did FYE. The mattress store was even reportedly offered a lower lease agreement but balked (that is a word right?) at the offer. The mall also suffered as result of two retail chains downsizing Wilson’s Leather (gone) and Remington (gone in Mid-March) who decided to just sell their products at department stores.

As I walked through the mall it seemed like a better place to take a nap than shop. The lights are soft, the music is soothing, there surroundings are familiar and it’s a quiet as library. Three stores I went into I was literally the only customer in the entire store. With exception of Boscov’s and Waldenbooks I don’t think any other store I went in broke double digits in customers. You almost feel like you are interrupting after hours inventory in some places.

Anyway from what I heard PERIT who purchased the mall has no plans to change as much as a light bulb for another year or so. They are just waiting and seeing. That makes some sense since the Mall sign hasn’t glowed at night for over 3 months. However at the same time the paid someone for their new slogan “Friendly faces and Friend Finds” or something to that nature that they plastered all over the empty mall stores. Perhaps they should have gone with friendly faces empty spaces.

I can’t imagine that the mall can go through another year of ghost town business. So I am predicting that the Mall will close in by May or at the latest August. Despite recent rumors that the owners told the remaining store owners that the Mall plans to stay. The also tried to sell store owners a bag of magic beans I imagine.

“The Other Brother 2: Dinner Time!”

Well most of my readers who are mainly people I see offline were quite surprised to hear that I had a half brother named Rick walking around out there. To be honest I totally forgot myself and recently after years of a falling out with my Father (his father too obviously) he decided he wanted to burry the hatchet. Of course I can’t fault him for that. However leading up to the dinner I was still void of any emotion or nervousness. We all set down for a Hughes Family Dinner.

The dinner went well he showed up with his wife and her child from a pervious marriage who they call “Binky” who thankfully doesn’t have any resemblance to the clown from Garfield and Friends. He is I guess eleven years old and I don’t actually recall his real name. He apparently has a sister and can’t figure out if I am actually related to either of them.

Lets see Rick is my half-brother and Binky and this random girl are his step-sons and a daughter So I guess that makes them my half step-niece and nephew. Carry the one, subtracted by the square root of 16. Um. So if this girl is really my half step-niece her half step-uncle type guy is a few years older than her cause I think I was told she was 21 or something.

We all had dinner together and I spoke more to Rick than Bill (my full brother) and could not get over that fact that he looks exactly like my father. It really bugged me out. If anyone sees Liza with her digital camera be sure to ask to see the picture, because its uncanny. Thankfully Rick who is in his late 30’s (odd for me to have such a gap) has a full thick head of hair which puts me at ease. That would also

I have seen him once again since the dinner and although I don’t see us entering the three legged race anytime soon I certainly see another family at the dinner table for holidays and such.

"Tucker at the Movies: Miracle"

The film Miracle tells the true story of the 1980 US Olympic hockey team that pulled off the impossible and ousted the USSR team on route to winning the gold medal. The game was much more than a simple hockey game it came during the peak of the cold war. The event came at a time when Americans were down on their luck, the king was dead, gasoline was in limited supply and overpriced, Russia had invaded Afghanistan, Americans had been taken hostage, and Americans were shocked by the Nixon debacle.

This was in a time when the hockey team wasn’t made up of a bunch of spoiled millionaires who were given free vacation to a far off location to pretend they care about the gold medal. The team played together for almost a year together before they went to the winter games. The team was a collection of college and junior hockey league players. An actual team.

The movie produced by Disney resulted in taming the language that likely spewed out of the young team and potty mouthed coach, but that sacrifice aside the writers tell true to the actual events. Of course the story itself of the underdog no one believed in doing the impossible seemed like a Hollywood fabrication so not much tinkering had to be done. However that is the beauty watching this film and knowing almost the entire events in the films narrative actually happened, and HBO’s documentary “Do You Believe in Miracles?” has the footage and interviews to prove it. In fact Miracle is just almost a motion picture remake of the documentary that I perhaps I should have hold off on letting Liza see till after our trip to the Cinemark.

Anyway the addition fleshing of the story lies in the life of the colorful coach Herb Brookes brilliantly played by Kurt Russell. Trust me I don’t throw around the term brilliantly when it comes to movies. However Russell manages to dissolve every ounce of his persona into the legendary hockey coach. He even nails the stature and you will forget almost entirely that it is Russell playing make believe. The film takes us occasionally into the home life of Brooks revealing that he had two true loves the game of hockey and his actual wife. Brooks was old school and never minced words and theorized that a system played by hard working well conditioned athletes could be an All-star team that relies on individual talent (are you listening Glen Slather?) . The story line is clearly more interested in studying Herb Brooks life than marketing the fresh faced actors playing the hockey team to young horny high school girls which could have made for a Freddie Prinz Jr. like flick.


As far as hockey movies go this the best hockey film ever made by far. Of course that is not saying a lot (to be fair I haven’t gotten around to seeing D3 or the one that the Duke starred in) but making a hockey film is extremely hard since you can’t fake the sport like baseball for football. First the casting department must find hockey players and turn them into actors or actors that can actually skate. However you don’t need to be a hockey fan to enjoy this film just like you didn’t need to be a horse racing fan to enjoy last year’s depression piece Seabiscuit. The acting is surprisingly solid for the mostly rookie cast, and Russell’s role is to anchor the inexperienced cast. Although a first viewing it might be hard to distinguish one fresh faced long haired hockey player from another especially if you don’t most know the story. Most notably Eddie Cahill, who plays goalie Jim Craig will is not only talented but stunningly handsome (Liza says he looks eerily like me) stands out in a few intense scenes with his windower father and Brooks.


Russell deserves an Oscar nomination for his performance but of course he won’t get it with the timing of the films release. However the release couldn’t come at a better time, the condition of the country’s morale easily rivals that of 1980 with the country divided over policies, evaluated terror alerts, war, and truck loads of corrupt politicians and political lies.

As for the hockey fan in me I am glad to see they didn’t make the movie too vanilla and gave us references to the IHL, Joey Mullen, and Pelle Lindberg that will likely zip over the heads of most movie goers like Mike Eruzione’s shot over a falling Commie goalie’s shoulder.

"Does Size Matter?"

The AHL always the place for the NHL to experiment with no rules increased the size of the neutral zone for 8 games this past month. The red line and two blue lines were widened from one foot to three feet. This was the brain child of former NHLer Bobby Smith who propsed it in the hockey news.

The idea behind the experiment is to see if a wider neutral zone will actually prevent the trap. The NHL really wants scoring up in the league and Gary Bettman wants the puck in the net more. Attempts this year like goalie equipment crack downs and the posting the list of "divers" in lockerrooms hoping to get more powerplays have done nothing. Scoring is actually down AGAIN this year.

The line changes down in the AHL for a few games didn't do much either. Although there is still potential in the idea of having longer passes that won't be considered two line passes the rule is confusing. The player with the puck has to actually clear the larger blueline before his teammates make it into the zone. This caused much confusion and coaches claimed the rule wasn't caught as many as 3 times during one of the games.

Former NHL players making their way in the AHL chimed in.

Karl Dykhuis claimed it gives you a chance to make longer passes, however that things become trickier at the blueline.

Aaron Gavey a former Dallas Star said didn't even notice a difference.


Coming up:

Bid for the Whitehouse stuff

and

a follow up to the Echelon Mall Story, Dinner with my Half Brother.

"Tucker's World Democratic Pick"


Okay the democratic primary is heating up. So I think its time for my to make an endorsement for my candidate to bid for the White House.

Well I am endorsing Joe Liberman!

Oh wait. He dropped out already. Hmm.

Seriously I did like Liberman because a lot of what he said made sense. The guy was just too far right for the nomination and matched up Bush too much. I never really thought he had much of a prayer obviously. Oh well.

I honestly can't wait to find out who is coming out officially to challenge Bush so I can make my actual endorsement that actually means something. Or at least to the 3 readers of my blog.

"The Rest of Winter"

Well the groundhog came out of his little hole and told us that winter is not quite over yet. Well I would have to agree with him.

However I don't see us getting the "big one", but we will get "nickel and dime" storms where a few inches of snow will fall than another few will fall again days later on top of the old snow. The kind of snow my friend Drew hates, well okay that everyone hates simply cause it doesn't get anyone off of work.

I figure we have a few shots towards the end of the month of snow storms like we had a few weeks ago. No blizzards this year. My record is a 4-2. I actually though the one last week was going to be bigger than it was. My bad.


Liberals are going to tell us that Bush controlled the weather so his oil buddies could get rich. Bush will tell us that it is the work of Saddam trying to make freedom loving Americans slip and slide to their horrific deaths. Trying to destroy the economy.

"The Boobie Network 2"

Okay so Drew emailed me and asked me how I figured out that Janet flashed her tit for the sake of getting media attention for her new CD. Okay well I guess that was mostly my personal take on the story. That's what blogs are for. I based my comments on the line of the song that was uttered before it happened, the fact the fact that she had an intention to do something during the halftime show, and that she wore something on her breast that flung out has to make you think. Just reading between the lines and personally painting this one was publicity stunt that's all.

I hope no one here actually gets their news from me. I stand by my comment on thinking Janet made it pop out for attention. Just like I stand by my statement that CBS only pulled the Reagans because they knew they could still easily win sweeps without and didn't want to tick off their lovely advertisers. I am sure the truth will come out one day about if the boob was supposed to come out or not.

As for the FCC being stupid about it, well I guess they were just doing their job. Yeah Drew in his email made a good point that its hard to see how some things are more offensive than others. Just look at the topics of storylines in most sitcoms these days. Or how did they justify Bono dropping the F-bomb?

The thing of it is the FCC always investigates stuff like this it just doesnt always make the headlines. I think they are and trying to warn people of a crack down( made public weeks before the Super Bowl) for one reason, the up coming election or ousting of Bush. Its and election year and they want to make their organization something that is mentioned in the debates. I am sure you haven't heard the last of this. Heck lots of organizations are going to be holding out their hats for cash all year long.

But the thing of it is an FCC regulation rule was broken, and they are just going to investigate if it really was intentional. I mean you can't just take Janet's word for it an close the case. What is the point of the FCC? Drew might not want it but many others do. People will be questioned to see if anyone actually was in on a little surprise and if Janet is just lying. No one is getting locked up or anything it is just they want to make sure they weren't trying to just break the rules. Given the fact that people are ticked that the FCC wants to crack down on some stuff again I wouldn't be surprised if it was just a bunch of artists thumbing their nose at the suits. Damning the man.

The FCC gets paid for a reason it is their whole point. I am sure some people out there especially single parents would like to know to some extent what their child will be exposed to on TV. Who would have thought a boob would have made an appearance during a Super Bowl?

Some Conservatives think that non-cable should have to be limited to what the can show and will likely use this next year showing examples of how the networks have gone too far. I agree with that considering all the kids watching TV and all. Of course they can just flip the channel to HBO or play a violent video game, but I don't get paid to solve these problems. TV ratings help a little so parents don't have to guess if penis jokes are going to be made in the next 22 mins or not. I certainly understand people wanting to know generally if content might surface during family night around the boob tube. ::cough, cough::



Liberals will use this investigation as a way to tell us that Bush is going to rob everyone of their civil rights and wants to censor the world.

"The Boobie Network"

Okay everyone is sick of the Janet Jackson story already. I know I am. ACtually at the Super Bowl party gathering I was at Liza was the only to actually see the full frontal part of the lame ass show.

I usually steer away for any Jackson related stories. However this is just another example of how I get sick of famous people doing something stupid and getting props for it. Okay let just face it the halftime show is not the place to show breasts. WIP callers were saying how they cameras creeply zoom in on the Cheerleaders, but that is different in my view because not nudity. Also Janet did this on purpose to promote her stupid new CD.

So let see if you write for the New York Times and flat out lie you can get a great book deal. If you purposely make a sex tape of yours public your reality show will get killer ratings. If you do the wild thing with a woman old enough to be your mom who wants to have a comeback it will help her and make people suddenly care about your movies. I could go on but my head hurts. Why do we have to fall for these stunts or a least why does the media fall for it each and everytime.

“The Other Brother”


Well I would be willing to bet that to most of even my closest friends this news to them. I don’t know if anyone other than Ryan knows what you are about to read. Incidentally I saw Ryan today for the first time since Christmas at the end of my street he yelled he would call me later, but I am still waiting.

Anyway when most people ask me if I have any siblings I respond that I have a brother. Of course as most of you know that my brother is married with a kid making me an uncle. However my father was actually married before he met my mother and had a son with his first wife. I didn’t even realize this until I was like 9. I thought this older kid Rick was just some random kid that came over I guess. But I technically have a half brother.


Well apparently my father married too young and his first wife is nuts. Things went south (the cleaner less personal version) and thankfully for me they spilt so he met and married my mother. Things got really ugly over spending time with my half brother Rick because my father’s ex gave him a hard time. Rick ended up being a troubled student and eventually things went south with Rick and my father. So much that I pretty much erased his existence from my brain. I never think about him at all.

Apparently, he got married to a woman with a kid, and is going through what does it all means phase in his life or something. He contacted my father and wants to patch things up. This was attempted before and he was at my house like 7 years ago with many family members, however after the get together he fell off the face of the Earth again.

Now Rick wants to see his two half brothers again and has actually been in contact with my father for months. My parents went to dinner with him in his wife, and the next step is a sit down with all members of my immediate family.

I really don’t know what to expect and feel pretty bad since I don’t feel know how to feel any brotherly bond for a virtual stranger who is a good deal older than me. I know if he expects to give me nooggies when walks in the door or us to slip into a close relationship. The whole time he was pining to reconcile with this father (who is my father and that still bugs me out) I thought about him maybe 3 times in a calendar year.

We will sit down for an obligatory dinner and I honestly don’t know what I have to say to him. I honestly am not even close with my actual brother for what ever reason and I don’t know what Rick is expecting. It is a socially awkward situation for me and but I totally understand him wanting to do this. I have nothing against Rick I just don’t have any connection with him or know how to deal with magically having another brother seemingly appear out of no where like one sitcoms when they retool. If he looks strikingly like Chris Eliot I was suspect my life has been one life long EDTV type experiment.