Wednesday, April 23, 2008

What the heck is going on with George W. Bush? Monday night he appeared on Deal or No Deal and Tuesday afternoon the news is featuring him dancing on the streets of New Orleans like Al Jolson. I guess there’s really nothing else for him to do these days. John McCain probably doesn’t want to associate himself with a President who has such a low approval rating, and anything Bush says negative about the Democratic candidates will just end up giving them some sort of boost. I guess that’s what I’d be doing too. Hang out a little bit with the pope, appear on a popular game show, and hit New Orleans for some jambalaya and a little tap dancing. He’s gotten pretty good at tap dancing.

There was a time when I was planning on attending both Tuesday’s Cubs game and then the White Sox game. Then I remembered that I don’t drink any more (and a lot less) and it would essentially just make for a really long day during which I would consume too many hot dogs and nachos. Attending two games in one day is what led to the downfall of the Ligue family and countless others. That’s too much beer, too much fresh air, and too much down time between games. I did attend a Bears game and then a Blackhawks game earlier in the year. It was fun, but it was a lot of paying attention for my little pea brain. It was a lot colder then too, so I was just glad to be indoors.

I hope that you had a very pleasant Earth Day on Tuesday. I thought we had some good tips on Tuesday’s show for being a good planet person. One of the tips was to try and microwave small quantities of food whenever possible. You don’t have to tell me that twice, because I love to microwave. I still like watching the food rotate on that little turntable thing (perhaps a carryover from my days as a disc jockey) and nowadays microwaves end up being smarter than the average person. Mine is so smart it heated up a Home Run Inn Sausage Supreme Pizza for me, browned it, and then did my taxes. I lied when the machine asked me how big my pizza was. I said it was two inches bigger than it really was. That’s just habit.