TC the Terrible

What does it say about Bryant Gumble when his entire reason for not watching the Olympics is the color of the athletes skin?  I’d say that the racist undertones of his character are finally coming to the surface.  Now, to be honest here, I agree with how he feels about trying to link winter sports to the ancient Greeks, and figure skating really is more of a show than a sport.

The telling fact is how little coverage this has gotten in the media.  It shows how far he’s fallen in stature since he left the Today Show in a huff.  Bryant is a jerk, and a racist one at that.

In other media news, first CNN bitches that Vice President Dick Cheney won’t talk to the media then they complain that he didn’t talk to them.  This is just a case of people starting to realize that they no longer dominate the product they created.  Jack Cafferty is acting like a Mama’s Boy about this one.  Maybe now the CNN crew will get the point and start doing a better job covering THE NEWS.  That might get them back in the hunt for the prime interviews again.  After all, when was the last time you were compelled to watch CNN? Or felt like that was the only place to get the news.  The times have passed them by and they forgot to notice.

That’s it for today.  Back with more tomorrow.

Lots of things have been going on the past few days.  

As you all know by now, THE SAILOR graduated boot camp earlier this month.  She did so on a pair of hurting knees, but refused to go on sick call for fear of missing the graduation ceremony.  When she did go the news was not good, both knees needed work done.

Her right knee had a ‘pinched and twisted’ nerve that had to be corrected, and her left knee had cartilage floating behind the knee cap.  They shipped her off to her school anyway and did the work there.  Both procedures seem to have gone pretty well, so with some rest and physical therapy she’ll be as good as new in a few weeks.

FDSM reached a milestone yesterday.  She got her driving permit.  The laws are restrictive out here when it comes to teen driving.  Pretty much for the next year she has to have an adult in the car, and no other kids.  She and I are going out for a drive this weekend.

Speaking of driving, this area is only getting worse.  Compared to Memphis, it was never a picnic anyway.  The drivers here don’t understand how to merge into traffic, can’t drive in bad weather, stop in the Interstate for no reason, and do about a dozen other things that really piss me off.

The biggest problem I think is the cost of housing in the District.  With the cost of an 800 square foot loft nearing a half million dollars, people are forced to move further out.  Thus forcing more people to be on the roads making it harder to get in and out of the place that most of us wish we could afford to live in.

So we have more bad drivers on under planned roads.  That’s a real recipe for failure.

Anyway, the pile of things in my Inbox is growing.  I’ve got to take care of some of it.

Back with more later.