Good News Bad News:

I apologize to the faithful readers of our blog (we've already had hundreds of unique visitors! thanks guys!), because I promised a weekly topic, and have slacked off. But without further ado, this week's installment of Good News, Bad News (Culture of the Week coming soon).

Good news for this week is that a flood of conservative thinkers and writers are jumping ship and joining the democratic camp. Christopher Buckley (son of the late William F. Buckley, Jr. who is essentially the godfather of the conservative movement in the United States) wrote a thoughtful and impassioned endorsement of Obama a couple of weeks ago. Of course, there's my main man Colin Powell, and now the former Bush White House Spokesman Scott McClellan and former Republican Governor of Massachusetts William Weld have both officially endorsed Obama. McClellan did his on D.L. Hughley's new comedy show on CNN (which, by the way, I think I have some beef with. More to come on that).

But the best news is a massive endorsement by a pair of famous twins, whose father is a household name. Props to ABond:



The bad news? School shootings are still very real in the USA. Thoughts are prayers are with everyone at Univ. of Central Arkansas.

More bad news? The surge isn't working. But not in the way you think (or don't think). The electrical 'surge' that powers the water pump 'surge' that is supposed to 'surge' waste water and treat Iraq's sewage systems (on the American watch and wallet), isn't working. We say that we want to leave Democracy in our aggressive, trigger-happy wake as Americans, but looks like we're leaving a whole bunch of other shit, too. And we're not very good at doing either, it seems, without overstaying our welcome and spending way too much money. That, I suppose, is the American way.

Those are my two cents, and they will be properly disposed of at the end of this message.