couric, richardson, jackson, and spring...

i know this is deeply disturbing for fans of faux-journalism everywhere, but catie couric is leaving the today show (i'll pause for a moment so you may collect yourself after you gasp in horror)...but to help ease your pain, she will only be jumping to cbs to head up the evening news. (does anyone else wonder if anchorman had anything to do with a woman finally getting a job as a network news anchor?) well, for those of you actually concerned about this move, let me fill you in on the view of 99.9% of the population...we. don't. care. it makes absolutely no difference who is reading the story of the day behind that desk with bad graphics over their shoulder. the stories will remain the same, the loss of real journalism will remain, our media folks will still have an overinflated self-importance and spend two weeks on a colleague's death while glossing over the young kids that gave their lives in the flavor of the decade war. besides, it frightens me when the journalist becomes the story...especially when the story is that a vaseline lense interviewer is simply changing networks and jobs. the fact that the american public gives a rats ass, or even just that the media thinks we should is a depressing commentary on how messed up our priorities are in this country. for that reason alone, ms. couric, let me just say that i will view you with the same boredome and disdain that i do any "journalist" acting as anchor. i can only hope that you lose your mind enough to bring out some ratheresque one-liners on the next election night...

bill richardson is again displaying why he is the uber-conservative's democratic. accussed cop-killer michael astorga is back in the states after being "released on bond" by mexican authorities (if you haven't heard this story, it is slightly shady...the mexican popo's in juarez made the american popo's shell out $2000 cash to get astorga and skip extradition...apparently they told their american counterparts the first person to come up with the $2000 would have him released to them...i love it, some mexican police sergeant is treating his friends to a hell of a party right about now). richardson immediately called for the local district attorney to seek the death penalty. that's right, the man with presidential aspirations for the democratic party is pleading for another man to be put to death. there were such high hopes attached to this man...and he managed to flush them all down the crapper. thanks bill. so to my democrat friends out there, let me ask you this...now that the debate has moved so far right, and clinton's pandering to the center and right-center have left the party without any attachment to the ideals it once stood for...are you still in love with him?

jesse jackson got himself back in the news...and here's another shocker, it was not for a worthy cause. what happened to this man? now he is up in arms over the lack of security around barry bonds. last it was the injustice of making terrell owens sit out a year (the man making millions to play a game), now it is because someone through a giant toy syringe at barry bonds on opening day (the man making millions of dollars to play a game - besides ...it was hilarious to throw a fake syringe at the incredible hulk.). way to fight for the underdog jesse...way to continue to fight injustice in this country...way to stick it to the man. you must be so proud of yourself. when did the cosmos begin to spin in such a way that jesse jackson fights for disgustingly rich folks and al sharpton does commercials for a payday loan company?

today actually feels like spring should. cool, windy, spattering of clouds. new mexico is grinding on my soul.

at least i'm on my own again...