Isolation Thought

Last night while watching Dick Cheney speak at the Republican convention, it hit me like a thunderbolt. The man is Bob Hope. His talking out of the side of his mouth, his timing where he turns to the side and waits for the applause after the punchline, and of course, staring ahead and then chuckling after a funny, my God, it was amazing. All that was missing was the golf club. I'm thinking this guy watched Hope deliver all those bad jokes over the years and he patterned his public speaking after him. Trust me, next time he delivers a speech from behind a podium, watch him and you'll immediately think of Bob "On the Road for Texaco" Hope.

Meal of Links

The Naked Chef's restaurant is apparently stripped of good food. As one paper noted, it "has now been judged far from lovely-jubbly."

Ray Ratto thinks we already have boxing reality shows. They're called "boxing".

How is the Elizabeth Smart kidnapper competent to stand trial, let alone able to plead not guilty? I mean he looks sane, but...

Exercise Yard

Even if Barry Bonds is on the yam-yam, the man has whiffed only 29 times this year. That's how many times the church bell chimed in "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald", for perspective.

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