Okay, got the Pandora station fired up, let's see what can come forth in the shape of a blog, besides not much..
I was going to spend at least part of this entry delving into politics, I had actually thought about talking about Newt Gingrich's divorce from his first wife. for those not in the know, it went something like this. According to the wife, he broached the idea of divorce while she was in the hospital for a cancer treatment. Then this past week his daughter comes out and says that it didn't go down that way, and she was in the room so she would know. So it becomes a matter of who is telling the truth, the wife 5 years after the fact or the daughter 20 years after the fact. Both sides would have a motivation to lie if that is what they are doing. But guess what kids? It doesn't matter. If you have learned anything in the first two years of the Obama presidency it is that the truth is not as good as the story. When two years after the election a President has to pull out his birth certificate to appease a few nutbags out there, then it doesn't matter whether Newt did or did not do what his first wife accused him of 15 years ago, as long as the story is out there that is all that matters, truth be damned. Because sometimes the story is better than the truth, in which case we will go with the story. Because we have become a people more worried about maintaining our illusions than worrying about what is and is not factually accurate.
Of course while I had that idea in my head since yesterday evening as a possible blog topic, by today the news cycle had moved past that to the story that Newt was being criticized by people in his own party for his previous support of an individual mandate regarding healthcare coverage and for his criticism of the Paul Ryan budget proposal currently in the House of Representatives. So Newt's political aspirations may be done before they even really began.
His weren't the only ones that ended though, Donald Trump also said he will not seek the nomination. Not that that comes as a shock to anyone with half a brain, Donald is always about Donald first and foremost. And his almost run for office gave him some bargaining leverage for his "Apprentice" shows on NBC. Why it would I do not know, it's not like he is on an important TV night (Sunday) and he regularly gets beat in his time slot (his audience actually shrank during his stunting for political office), but then it is NBC, which these days should stand for NoBody Cares. Reportedly they offered Trump something in the range of $30-$50 million to keep the TV franchise going. And they wonder why they are in 4th place (out of 4) among the major networks.
They did annouce the shows that will be renewed and those that got cancelled today, and as expected one of the shows that got cancelled was Law & Order Los Angeles. I believe that it was the very same person who is typing today's entry that said a few weeks back it a bad sign that this show was using killing off a character as a stunt to get people to watch, when nobody really cared about the character to begin with, and slapping a tag like premiere on a show halfway through it's first season was a cheap ploy to try to get new viewers. Well the new viewers never arrived and the show was handed it's pink slip today. Perhaps they will run a premiere of their one and only season finale.
Another person looking for work is Charlie Sheen, now that CBS has opted to go forward with it's next season of "Two and a Half Men" sans one Mr Sheen. Instead they added Ashton Kutcher to the cast. How this will affect viewership is anyone's guess, I personally never found the show remotely funny to begin with, but apparently some people did. Now I am not going to get all hoity toity on everyone here, I just found the writing and alleged humor on that show to be best described as simple. And for something to make me laugh, well, it just has to be better than that. Is the writing going to be any better with Kutcher than it was with Sheen? Probably not, but I doubt I will watch to find out.
I was going to try to think up something else to opine about but Neil Diamond just came on the Pandora station, and well, Neil is just too good of a note to exit on. So instead of some cumbersome conclusion to this blog I will just sing some "Cherry, Cherry" and make my way out the door.
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