Odds and Ends

Some odds and ends which have been on my mind.
1) Mr. Bourdain continues his hypocritcal attacks on the commercial chefs such as Rachel Ray. For someone who constantly puts down the mainstreen tv chefs, he is always on Top Chef, talk shows and promoting no reservations. I have never understood why people have to put down others instead of positively supporting them, or keeping quiet. Rachel Ray is not a competitor of his. In fact, their audiences are vastly different. Yet, he keeps making comments about her. Glad to see she took the high road with the latest barrage.
2) Who keeps putting Elizabeth Hassleback on TV. I saw an ad for her QVC show and she had the most hideous giant bow on her top. Her TV persona is so narrow minded and dumb as a post that she gives Jessica Simpson a run for her money. The sad thing is, I think her real life persona is a lot more intelligent than she lets on. She reminds me of a lot of religious flock members who are told to quote certain passages from the bible but when you respond with a counter quote, they can't handle it and start to panic.
3) Congrats to Frank @heroesarg for the birth of his child.
4) My four year old told me something was hilarious. It is so cute hearing her say that word.
5) The Padres have exactly 1 week to begin turning around a mess created by John Moores and his wife. When we approved the baseball stadium a few years back, Mr. Moores made a commitment to be competitive and to try to make deals to improve the club. His idea of such deals were to sign aging stars to 1 year deals and draft crappy players rather than those represented by Scott Boras who, by the way, has contributed strongly to ruin baseball by allowing his clients to be jackasses and greedy. I am sure Scott is smart and he obviously makes tons of money but the message he sends to our kids is that contracts are meaningless and the dollar is more important than winning and image. Thats no excuse for the Padres to pick Matt Bush with the number one pick. I think that might be worse than the Chargers selecting Ryan Leaf. At least some people argued Leaf could be a number 1 pick, no one believed Bush was worth it. further, Leaf at least played at the professional level, Bush didn't even make it through 2 whole minor league seasons. Crikey, he imploded before even reporting to his first assignment.
6)Obama and his administration have done nothing to help the individual. none of the programs have had any effect on the economy or the individuals who are losing their homes. I don't care if he has a near perfect NCAA basketball bracket. He should spend more time implementing programs that give people jobs now, money now, debt relief now rather than providing money to banks, auto companies, and insurance companies without requiring that the money be used to help the consumer. All that AIG money was wasted on bonuses and administrative middle and upper management and all the bank bailout did was allow the larger banks to get larger and the reduction in competition so that bank fees will go up.
7) In equal opportunity ranting, the Bush family has spent 12 of the last 20 years ruining the economy and personally profitting, both directly and indirectly off of the war efforts and the oil prices.
8) Lost was good on Wednesday but I know somehow instead of Sayid changing history the PTB will make Sayid responsible for Ben's path of darkness as the island resurrects Ben and puts him into the others' camp. ben will now blame Sayid for setting him on the path. You simply can't change the past.
9) Bryan Fuller brought an edge back to Heroes with the recent Cold Snap. Loved Tracy's wink with her body shatterred all over the garage. I do have a couple of gripes. 1) Micah is rash acting and I don't buy that he is Rebel simply because Rebel has a much better grasp of life. 2) Danko would never leave Tracy's body, however shattered. He must know of the possiblity that she could reform. After all, he has dealt with water people before.
10) I will miss Daphne and Brea Grant. Brea brought a fresh look to the show and her approach to her powers combined with her convincing portrayal of someone who was given a second chance on life by getting her legs back and with the added bonus of speed.
ok. back to work.