It's a big old goofy world--Friday edition

So it's Saturday--tough (and long) day at work yesterday...

The Week's Not So Top Five

1) This has absolutely nothing to do with politics (or maybe it does), but did anyone else notice something odd about this year's commercials for the upcoming Master's Tournament? No fucking highlight reels of Tiger Woods! Come on--I know the guy fucked up royally, but please. He is easily one of the two greatest golfers ever, and the only reason many of us (myself included) watch so much as a nanosecond of golf. Four Master's championships, and the best they can do is show Mickelson's belly jiggling when he jumps up and down? Fuck you, CBS! Next idiot, please!
2) Not sure I've ever seen a Dem more inept than our own Governor Granholm, and she managed to put her head up her ass again this week by declaring today a "meatless day." It has raised quite the fuss here in the Wolverine state (a protest is being held on the lawn of the capitol today with a barbeque) and I really think this is much ado about nothing, but come on Guv--we've got 14% unemployment and a budget shortfall that's going to cripple us for years, and this is the best you can do? Save the cuteness for better days...
3) Another good week for the Catholic church: seems the Archbishop of Denver defended a Boulder Catholic school's decision to not allow the admission of the children of a lesbian couple because it "was acting in line with church teachings." He also said "the church doesn't believe God has any less love for the children of gays and lesbians than for other children, or that gays and lesbians are bad people." **Aside for those wondering: it appears the church is within its legal rights** Ahem--so even though God loves them, they're just not quite good enough for the Catholic church? Kind of reminds me of those old Jim Crow laws which had nothing against black Americans as long as they rode on the back of the bus and didn't use the same drinking fountains as the white folk....
4) Rather than fight a lawsuit from the ACLU a school district in Mississippi (what a surprise--the land of cotton and hatin') has cancelled their senior prom instead of simply allowing a lesbian couple to attend. One of the young women was purportedly told by a fellow student ..."thanks for ruining my senior year." Note to the little girl whose year has been ruined: hate to break it to you, but you're going to face much worse than this in the coming years. If your senior year is ruined by something as trivial as this, you might as well throw in the towel now because you're going to be utterly miserable by age thirty. Besides, I didn't attend my senior prom and my life has turned out wonderfully, though in fairness I had a decidedly different reason for not attending. I suffered from a malady which persists to this day: Acute Dorkism.
5) The Iraq War had its seventh anniversary this week. While I opposed it from the start, I can add little to what Digby posted so eloquently earlier this week. If only more of our leaders were as prescient as she...

Peace,
emaycee