OK, it's Air Show practice time. I think I may have been attacked by a jet or was that the New Zealand earthquake....

What kills me about the R's is that every time they think they've found new blood and praise them as forces to be reckoned with, these people have a tendency to implode. From Rand Paul earlier this summer to Chris Christie of New Jersey just this past week. Well, here's the latest from Gov. Jan Brewer. During the immigration law fiasco, she was getting praised to high heaven about her abilities. But take a look at this performance from the Arizona gubernatorial debate on Wednesday.

Jan Brewer Is Puzzled



How do you defend that performance?

Then, during the debate, one of her opponents, Terry Goddard, tried to get Brewer to admit she was wrong on quite a simple fact. See, Brewer conveniently noted during the immigration controversy that crime was so bad there that there were beheadings, yes, actual headless bodies found throughout Arizona. A simple polling of all the coroners in the state rendered that statement patently untrue. But she wouldn't recant.

Afterward, reporters tried to ask her about the beheadings and she would not address it, pulls a Fonzie and walks away.

Of course, we have to deal with Yawn and Yawner for our Ohio Senatorial race. Portman widens his lead.

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Here are the 25 best fall tours. No Roger Waters, but I know Deerhunter is actually at the Beachland in October.

Medical stats. Win an Oscar and you'll live longer than the loser nominees.

Time Warner Cable and Disney made nice yesterday. For me, the benefit is clearly the ability to get ESPN3. Word is, that will be up and running this evening. I think I'm also a Sports Pass subscriber, so allegedly I get a college football (ESPN Goal Line, which sounds like the RedZone Channel for the NFL) and basketball highlight channel. Plus, ESPN Deportes in HD, as well.

Here are your Labor Day Weekend Marathons. "Hawaii Five-O" on Spike looks interesting. And Sunday, there is a catch-up of "Rubicon" on AMC.

Sadly, it has come to this. Pepsi didn't even negotiate with War for the "Why Can't We be Friends?" ad.

Bourdain talks about himself. And with his 100th episode, talks about other programming. He likes "Top Chef".

If you want to get a nice Philly Cheesesteak, go to Original Steaks and Hoagies in Twinsburg. Really good stuff. Bay fries (fries with Old Bay), too.

Uh-oh. One of those Chilean miners has a whole lot of splainin' to do when he gets out.

How Christian Bale was not nominated for an Oscar for "American Psycho", I'll never know. You'll never listen to Huey Lewis the same.

There are some things I don't get. Like this couple.

Awkward first day of school photos. Dogs humping in the background is tough to beat.

How does Netflix endure? Critics have been beating them up for a while, but they keep succeeding.

Exercise Yard

I was just thinking about the Browns escaping the preseason without major injury. Then Monterio Hardesty tears his ACL.

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