Don't Back Down

Let me get this straight. We finally get Iraq to the point where they hold elections. Now, some people (admittedly, a journalist, but it wouldn't surprise me if politicians felt the same) think that the person they are likely to elect is a bad choice? That's it. Give them the opportunity to pick their leader. They do, decide they picked the wrong one. Give me a break. And people wonder why I think we might not have the best argument for being involved in Iraq.

Speaking of the middle east... The big D (that's Dubya, not Dallas) has decided that invading Iran is a bad idea. I don't really have anything to say about this. I just wanted to record it, so that in a few months or so, if he should change his mind, I'll be able to come back and find it easily.

There actually was an interesting idea proposed recently for dealing with the mess of Social Security. It seems that Paul O'Neill (the treasury guy, not the Yankee) thinks the government ought to just give every person $2K per year for their own account. I actually like that someone proposed a new idea. But the numbers in the end won't be any better than the current plan, and the money still has to come from somewhere. That's what I don't get. Do people just not understand that whatever the government gives away, they have to get from somewhere first? And that that somewhere is their very own pocket? I'd prefer to just keep my pocket lined, thank you very much.

I don't listen to much radio. Sure, if I'm in the car I'll flip on (or flip off) Bob and Tom. Once in a while I'll even turn on the radio on the way home to catch some updated scores from a game. But I simply cannot imagine listening to an entire sporting event on the radio. It just doesn't fit with the way I process information.

So I'm amazed when I find out that satellite radio company Sirius pays (or will pay, perhaps) the NFL hundreds of millions of dollars for broadcast rights to the games. I can almost - almost - understand the packages on satellite TV for all the games. But radio? Are people going to fire up their radio to listen to a game, every week? Much less a bunch of games? I don't get it.

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Apparently the Dead Sea Scrolls will be coming to Charlotte for a visit next year. That might be cool. I saw the Declaration of Independence when it was here a while back, and that was neat. Not sure about the scrolls. I mean really - my Hebrew is a bit rusty, so it's just going to be a bunch of old parchment that I can't read. It might be someone's grandmother's recipe book. And at the other show, you waited in line for a while and were able to spend all of three seconds in front of the case. Still, it might be worth checking out. I'll post more info as it becomes available.