A Very Interesting Point
I was surfing a few blogs of my blog pals and came across this post on Smellen's post about Michael Moore's letter to ShrubCo on the Eve of War in which he notes that only one single member of the 535 members of Congress has a son or daughter in the military. Which is truly surprising if you think about it for a moment.

Um, so when they talk about our brave sons and daughters fighting in the Middle East, just who are they talking about? Not their kids because their kids go to private schools and over priced snotty east coast Ivy League schools where they don't have to interact with the "common" types.

Note (Updated 3.27.03): I've since been educated by some readers and some other bloggers about Michael Moore's sometimes less than wholly honest film making techniques and subsequent conclusions and messages that he conveys. As with every other source of information, he should be taken with a big grain of salt. If his movies are falsified stories then he shouldn't be considered a documentarian at all, he's a regular movie maker with a different technique than Spielberg but closer to him than to someone that actually produces less skewed movies. Doesn't mean I don't want to see Bowling for Columbine, I still do and since its showing at the local theatre for a second run, we'll probably hit it this weekend. Thanks to those of you that took the time to try and set me right.

I do still standby my pocket analysis of the Ivy League school system though, spent too many years in its shadow to now have strong opinions of it. Its overpriced, snotty and a lower rung of the old boy's network ladder to the top. You didn't attend Harvard or Yale? Well then, you'll have to take the long route to the top.

In Soul Sucking News: Celine Dion Takes 'Vegas
I'm not sure what braniac thought this one up but Celine Dion's A New Day is about to start a three year run in Las Vegas. Why? Because she hasn't squalled her awful music to quite enough people already. And really, you're nobody until you perform 5 shows a night, five nights a week in Las Vegas for 3 years. Look at what its done for such mega stars like Siegfried and Roy (they look sooo lifelike you almost think they're human). What does this mean for Joe Middle America? Just another crappy show to shell out for with the wife when you're spending your ShrubCo inflated tax return.

And Las Vegas, that aged den of mafia intrique takes another step towards becoming DesertDisneyland. Who's next? The Martin Short All Star Review? How about the Connie Chung Ca-ching Coalition? Or hey, make it a traffic stopping duo of Connie AND Maury together on stage for the first time. Wooo.

Maybe not.

I think I'll be off searching the underbrush for the pair of nuts that Las Vegas lost.