This morning on Pat & JT after doing my stupid little ranty DC Blitz, which you can hear an excerpt from here (it's about halfway through), a caller asked why I "hate" so much. The caller "Eric" asked this question after perusing my myspace and then this blog. Why, dear caller, do I hate so much? Ask my therapist or decode my DNA. I have no idea. It's just who I am.

In case you missed today's DC Blitz, here are my notes. Unexpurgated and with my own notes and timing, typos and all, so please forgive that. Also no links, but as usual you can find most of these stories like I did on Wonkette, Politico, Raw Story, etc. etc.

News Corp., the company that brought you Sean Hannity’s impermeable hairdo and popularized the concept of the embedded news-bimbo, has announced the launch of their very own all business news channel: the creatively named Fox Business. So now the company that takes jingoism and being a mouthpiece for the uninformed right to a whole new level can now spend 24 hours a day telling you how the crappy economy is somehow Bill Clinton’s fault. Among the dubious collection of contributors Fox Business has hired, the most insane is former HP Co-Chief Executive Carly Fiorina. Carly is no stranger to business. In fact from 1999 to 2005 Carly lead the buyout/merger of Compaq and took the once revered name of Hewlett Packard as a company known for innovation and milked it like a cash cow. Shares of HP lost 63% of their value while she was at the helm, and stock has more than doubled since she was fired in 2005, to give you an idea of how much she was loved as a corporate leader. Now she’ll be offering business news on Fox! Good Job, Rupert. You picked another winner.

Speaking of Sean Hannity’s helmet-hair and the frighteningly melting man Alan Colmes, being forced to watch FNC at the gym this week I caught another classic Hannity straw man argument where he had someone on to scream about Al Gore being considered for a Nobel Prize because of his work raising awareness about global warming. The closed captioning wasn’t on, so I just had to watch the Fox news bobbing heads mouth the words “how ridiculous” and “Nobel Prize is a sham” etc. This was made even more poignant by an AP story that was brought to my attention. From yesterday’s AP: An upcoming report by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will contain new data showing that the level of climate-changing gases in the atmosphere has already reached critical levels, levels scientists weren’t expecting for another decade. Why so many greenhouse gasses? I don’t know. It must be Clinton’s fault.

In case you missed it, this last week President Commander-Guy vetoed SCHIP, the program that offers free health care to eligible children. This is all part of “W”’s aggressive new “No Child Left Standing” initiative that intends to offer a little tough love to America’s Kids by suggesting that they just tough it out through any illness like chicken pox, broken bones or meningitis. Remember the battle cry of the modern neo-conservative Tax Cuts for wealthy individuals and corporations = good, health care for children = bad. Win another one for family values.

Blitz & Pieces

Today, October 11, is national coming out day, and in just two days Idaho Senator and Minnesota Airport Bathroom sex-goblin Larry Craig will be inducted into the Idaho hall of fame. Coincidence? Or does the Idaho Hall of Fame Association just not follow the news? That’s like George Michael winning some type of award from the California Parks and Recreation service. Craig, as you will remember, promised to resign on September 30th if a judge would overturn his guilty plea. The judge didn’t, but Larry changed his mind. But I guess this wouldn’t be the first time he went both ways on a decision ... Never let it be said that the Bush administration isn’t really proactive. Prior to the announcement noted earlier in the Blitz about the Greenhouse Gas emissions report, Sec. of State Condoleeza Rice challenged the world’s biggest polluters a couple weeks ago to "cut the Gordian knot of fossil fuels" and [shift] toward energy sources that will reduce global warming. Most of the people she was addressing had trouble hearing her, however, of the sound of her motorcade of Hummers that were revving up just to hear that sweet sound of internal combustion engines roar ... last night Hillary Clinton got the music industry endorsement that is bound to put her over the top. The Goo Goo Dolls played a fundraiser for her. So, yeah... Goo Goo Dolls...

Yer Blitzed!

Hope you enjoy, or enjoyed, or whatever.

See you tomorrow night at the Weisenheimers exhibition at the Big Ha! If you want to come. If not... whatever, dude. It's your life.