Random Thoughts

A list of topics that have been floating through my head:

1. Sad news from the world of entertainment: Nipsey Russell has died at the age of 80. What would an episode of "Match Game 78" be without him and his four line stanza om pop culture:
"The opposite of pro is con
That much is plainly seen
If progress is moving forward,
Then what does Congress mean?"

RIP, Nipsey. May you always be in the seat next to Brett Sommers in heaven.

2. Some of you may have seen the Kyle Orton pictures on the internet; click on the link to see Kyle - on the Thursday of a bye week - enjoying himself in an Iowa City bar.
a. How does this make sense? He is from Iowa - although he's fromWestern Iowa, not the estern part - and he went to Purdue, not Iowa. Why is he partying in Iowa City?
b. Unfortnately, he did not call me to party with him. C'mon Kyle, I'm within 10 minutes of that bar - I could have made it down as soon as I stopped reading "Wheels on the Bus"
c. There's nothing inherently wrong about this - it's his bye week, and he can spend it any way he wants. But I hope Romeo's got these pictures and is passing it around the locker room today - you're going to let this guy beat us?

3. As some of you might know, the conservative blogosphere (instapundit, and others) are trying to organize and effort to force our Congress to cut pork in order to pay for the Katrina clean-up effort.
However, one vlaued project that has been funded already is the Iowa Rain Forest, which is planned to be built right here in my home town of Coralville.

This project has come under fire as pork that could be cut out of the budget in order to pay for Katrina. IowaHawk makes the case for the Rainforest.
If you have any political interest at all, this post will leave you rolling on the floor.

And while you are there, check out a copy of Harriet Miers' application to the Supreme Court.

4. Do stock analysts have too much power? This week, one analyst downgraded P&G due to her concern over rising raw material costs. Even though she admits that P&G is "extraordinarily" disciplined in cost-cutting moves, she woders about the impact.
On that news, we lost $3/share over the week.

Is that too much power?

5. There's no bigger disappointment than this: you get up Sat morning, yearning for toast; it comes out perfect -now to load it up with Country Crock - oh no! All we have is that Land O Lakes whipped butter crap -that's impossible to spread.

There is no substitue for Country Crock.