You know, just admit that you got you ass beat and move on. ABC ripping on the success of American Idol two days after the show ends is just lame. Idol beats everything that the other networks throw against it so just suffer thru a few weeks and let it go. Trash talking the show and questioning the talent of the winner only serves to make ABC look like a bigger loser. Of course bragging about how you knew that Idol was going to be a massive hit four years ago is just as bad, if at the other end of the glide path.

If your town is being used like a giant “Where’s Waldo?” book, kick back and enjoy it. No harm in selling a few Hoffa themed cupcakes to the FBI while you’re at it either. What I want to know is what kind of tip was it that was good enough to send the Feds back to the scene thirty plus years later, but not good enough to tell them exactly where to find the body.

My knee-jerk response to the rash of colleges offering Black Male Initiatives, is why not offer White Male Initiatives too? Since when did white guys fall of the educational map, and don’t they have special needs too? Of course there’s no government grants for that so it wouldn’t really happen. But then I realized that the problem is more basic. It’s called educating the people who pay to go there. Why don’t universities and colleges simply focus on having programs that give attendees a superior education and give the graduates of those programs a distinct advantage over graduates from other institutions? People who want an education will show up, attend class, grow smarter and wiser, then leave for good jobs and serve as recruiting tools for the schools. It’s a system that used to work really well in this country until educators became more concerned about the ethnic statistics of the school than the education of the students attending.

The boss has decided to let us out of the cage early today in celebration of the long weekend ahead. Which is a pretty good idea since it seems that noon is turnign into the new rush hour in DC. Or then again, maybe it’s not.