–The image above shows which party is leading in polls of each state’s senate races. It probably carries as much merit as an exit poll and I have no idea why I just put it in here, but it looks good. Speaking of these midterm elections, never have I held politicians in such a low regard as I do right now. Do not get me wrong, I’m very active politically but Bush and his architect Karl Rove have created a tremendously strong bipartisan split in this country and I think that is just awful. I do not feel like getting overly political right now, but I hope the Dems can carry their steam and take majority in at least the house or senate, both would be a slam dunk. It’s time for a change. And Clinton will run for Pres in ’08 but she’d be better of running on the Dem ticket as VP in ’08. Just my completely non-credible political strategy.

–That whole John Kerry spun by the GOP stunk of last ditch desperation in its worst sense. Implying that Kerry, a decorated war veteran, would deliberately blast our troops is absurd. I am just glad that we have draft dodgers like our War Dictator Premier Bush and Duck Cheney to call him on it.

–I made my first trip into New York City a few weekends ago and it was unbelievable. I am ashamed at not having been there before. A couple highlights: Being on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, you can not believe truly how much chaos goes on and the pressure those people are under. Brooklyn Heights is an unbelievably view of Downtown Manhattan. Ground Zero is person is a truly eye opening realism of what happened on that tragic day, and New Yorkers have not recovered from the horrors that day still provides. I got to sing God Bless American with Irish Tenor Ronan Tynon (Sings during the 7th inning stretch at Yankee stadium) at an awesome pub named McSorbey’s downtown. Times Square absolutely sucks, awesome in a sense of lots of lights and tourist junk, sucks in a sense of lots of lights and tourist junk. Columbia is a beautiful campus, NYU..not so much. I can see myself living in the city at some point, just for a few years. Truly is the center of the universe, I look forward to frequenting the city many many more times, for business and pleasure.

–Some books and junk, The Art of the Deal and How to Get Rich by Donald Trump. The former is a decent read but the second is basically an autobiographical sploogefest by the Donald, do not waste your time. Freakonomics was a really cool book that makes you look at the world around you a little differently. It uses statistics to truly analyze the danger, fear, succes, etc in ones life. For example, if you own a gun in the home and a swimming pool, the swimming pool is 100,000x more likely to kill your child than the gun. We just are used to news stories about horrible tragedy. Also controversially linked all-time crime lows around the year 2000 to abortion legalization, in that mothers whose children would statistically become criminals, instead opted for abortions, indirectly eliminatiing a generation of criminals. Crazy book that is so smart, but written so elementary, that you’ll remember it all your life. One More Day by Mitch Albom is the third book I’ve read by homeboy. Better than The 5 People You Meet in Heaven, but not quite up to the standards of Tuesdays with Morrie, a very good story nonetheless. An Inconvenient Truth, by the internet pioneer Al Gore, was certainly interesting, yet fueled with an overwhelming amount of liberal propaganda. If the former VP took a more diplomatic approach, I feel he would have been able to spread his message more effectively. Global warming does exist and it is a problem.

–Uhhh movies movies…Saw III, not to give it all away, is more than likely the last in the series (thankfully) barring some unforeseen twist that was not explained in the movies. It is the most gruesome of the three, yet arguably the best in the series. The first was cool, 2nd ranked among worst movies ever, but this has some shades of character development and actual plotlines. If anything, Jigsaw has established himself with the likes of Jason, Michael Myers, and Freddy Krueger. The Departed was truly an awesome movie. In my humble opinion, Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon have established themselves as the best young actors in Hollywood by a longshot. Both are superb, Nicholson is his usual fantastic self, Wahlberg continues to be great, and a host of others are well done (Minus possibly Martin Sheen). I was on the ede of my seat throughout but left the theater almost disapointed. I wanted more of a resolution in the story, but I felt the viewers were left with sort of a ‘copout’ ending because Scorcese couldn’t choose what he wanted, very unlike him. I put it behind United 93 and BORATTTTTTTTT on my favorite movies of the year. Speaking of that inquistive anti-semetic journalist, wow. I am still laughing. Sasha Cohen has made quite a movie, and quite a few dollars. Borat opened at #1 this weekend over the Santa Clause III despite SC3 being at over 4x as many theaters! I am going to see this movie again in theaters for sure. It is very crude, overwhelmingly offensive, and politically hilarious. If you aren’t intelligent enough to understand that Cohen is merely creating a character to show how ignorant heartland America truly is, do not see this movie. You’ll be offended and bash it, so do us a favor and just ignore it. If you are tolerant and recognize the movie as merely entertainment, you are sure to pee you pants laughing.

–Seriously, why do they call them corrective glasses/lenses?? I have been wearing glasses and contacts for like a decade and my eyes have not improved one bit. In fact, the lenses have created a dependency and thus made my eyes worse. I know not one person whose glasses or contacts have ‘corrected’ their eyes. Seriously, we have to get the name of those shits changed, false advertising to the teeeee.

–I am going to see Rocky VI, I am not going to enjoy it, but I have to see it. And I hate myself for paying like $17 to see Rocky sparring with calcium deposits on his knees and viagra clanging around in his gym bag. Only hope is that Adrianne dies in this one, she’s been hanging around way too long. And if we could get Apollo to show up in a dream or something with a wooden hand, that’d be just super.

–I think Michigan is going to wax Ohio State when they play, and then it should be Michigan vs Louisville for the National Title. There is about an 85% neither of these teams will end up in the Title game, shows how much I know about college football. Go Irish.

–Peyton Manning > Tom Brady…argue with me all you want, I fear no reprisal

–Saddam Hussein sentenced to death by hanging (Who didn’t say ‘woah cool’ when they realized Iraq still does hangings?)….conveniently just 2 days before the midterm elections. I’m sure the GOP had nothing to do with that one.

–Super Bowl pick as of right now…Broncos vs Eagles