Easing Into The Web Today

For starters today, we have an interview with Al Pacino - take away the nutty characters he has played, and his latest role is Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, and it is a quiet start to websurfing today LOL. I should really read more Shakespeare apart from the top three of Romeo and Juliet, MacBeth and Hamlet - lol, shoulda woulda coulda of course :) Wow, Al Pacino's first foray into entertainment was as a stand up comedian - hmm, you WOULD laugh at jokes by Scarface LOL LOL. I can just imagine a Pacino version of Seinfeld lol - he says he likes Steve Martin and Jim Carrey, that sort of comedy...



Grr, the quiet start to the websurf has ended - Bush has asked Rummy to stay on as Defense Secretary. Not even the mini satisfaction that he was the last cabinet post to be confirmed for the second term doesn't make me happy. Grrr, Abu Gharib and Guantanamo, isn't that a Lebanese and Mexican type of food grr grr.



Here's a good one - the BALCO steroid scandal is making its way from track and field to baseball, and Barry Bonds, who is one of the poster boys for bulking up, says that he thought an additive he was taking last season was a nutritional supplement for arthritis, when it very well could have been a steroid. Barry, Barry, Barry, the innocent naive waif look does not wash with me, or most of the general public I believe. You take some supplements, become a home run hero, and you didn't even wonder that your super supplements could be legal or not? Hmm.



And Bud Selig, the commissioner is getting in on the act - just seems to be this week's version of the Monday Night Football fiasco, the NFL saying that ABC sprung the pre game video clip on them unexpectedly - hmm, a nude woman, steroids, a breast in the half time show, Saving Private Ryan being obscene - American culture is NOT whiter than white people...



Hmm, over on the Israel Palestine side of the news here is one from last week that I must have missed - but in the last week roundup has come back up. An Israeli road block made a Palestinian play a violin to get through the checkpoint, and reminded a lot of Israelis about how the Nazis got the Jewish musicians to play at the concentration camps. Bleah.



Hmm, there was a court decision in the States this week that allowed universities, or colleges as they are called on that continent, to bar military recruiters from recruiting on campus because of the military's dim view on gay rights. Was reading a report earlier in the week that said any actual change would be to not to promote recruiting drives, but it is yet another example of red blue state thinking :)



Okies, just a quick one today - later peeps

Pauly