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Radio has been terrible for a while. Just when I start liking a song, it gets played to death and I can’t stand hearing it any more. And the lack of variety doesn’t help matters either. Clear Channel is the next Microsoft of radio. It owns 1,200 radio stations across the country, 8 in the Washington DC area alone. This homogenization and commercialization of radio will not get any better until listeners tune out, which is difficult to do without an alternative. I’m looking closely at XM, one of the satellite radio providers that seems to offer a lot more variety, albeit at a cost.

OK, enough serious stuff. Play Super Free Kicks and try to score three free kicks in a row. I’ve only managed one so far, but then again MTV has ruined my attention span.

“Stop, or I’ll say stop again!” It’s about time that Yasser Arafat took some decisive action made a feeble quote.

W is kicking off a physical fitness initiative for Americans. I don’t have anything bad to say about that, except that he sure looks unfit in the picture CNN used. Of course, I’m not one to talk, but I’m dispensing the insults here, not absorbing them. :-p

High school senior Masha Malikina was paralyzed from the waist down three years ago in a car accident. Her goal was to be able to to walk across the stage at her graduation. Amazingly, she recovered enough to be able to walk with the aid of a walker. However, her principal dashed her hopes, claiming that he was unwilling to risk the liabilities associated with her possibly injuring herself. Thankfully, a local radio station stepped in and staged a ceremony just for Masha, where she was able to walk across the stage and accept her diploma in front of a cheering audience. And as for that prinicipal, what a shyster.

Someone’s losing their pilots license. OK, maybe not, as it isn’t as bad as it initially sounded. The White House was evacuated yesterday briefly because a single-engine Cessna strayed into restricted airspace above Washington.

Donald Rumsfeld is a big whiner. In order to avoid conflicts of interest in his government position, he sold off up to $91 million dollars in assets. The man is obviously worth quite a lot of money, but is now complaining about the complexity of the disclosure forms and the $60,000 in fees he paid to have accountants prepare them for him. We should all have such problems.

There’s more damning evidence in the Colorado forest ranger saga. It now appears that they don’t even believe her (flimsy) story about burning a letter, alleging that she deliberately set the fire and created what appeared to be an abandoned campfire to cover her tracks. There’s a special place in Hell for her if this is true, especially considering all of the people whose lives were destroyed and all of the people who lost their lives flighting these blazes.

W is a moron, no matter what his spin doctors try to say. I really doubt that the man who cheerfully (and smarmily, I might add) admits to being a non-elitist C student discussed the Nicomachean Ethics of Tocqueville with a colleague. To wit: among the countless intellectual blunders, faux pas, and outright mistakes that W makes, this is the deep insight he had on immigration last week, “We need to know who’s coming in and why they’re not going out.” As the story suggests, maybe it was actually Nickelodeon Ethics that he discussed. :-p

Get free popcorn chicken at KFC tomorrow from 11-2. Mmmm… popcorn chicken.