Field of Deets

Roberts:

John Roberts is nearing confirmation as Supreme Court Chief Justice. This is such an important confirmation because Roberts is just fifty years old and if confrimed could be the chief justice for 25 or 30 years. I could be his age now before we have a new chief justice. And with so many hot button issues coming to The Court's attention, the two people who fill the two empty seats will be an intragal part of painting the future of this country. Separation of church and state, abortion, The Patriot Act, privacy, and a multitude of other key topics will come before the court in the near future and I just hope that Congress does not put some crazy-ass-radical-republican-uber-Christian on the bench.

Senator Russ Feingold (WI) voted in favor of Roberts, which gives me hope because after listening to Feingold he usually seems to be quite liberal. But at the same time Roberts didn't give the committee much information on how he sees various issues. But why would he? By doing that, no matter what he says, he'll turn 50% of Congress away.

After I spent 3-4 hours over the course of two days watching the hearings, I was speaking to Will about them. I was saying how good of a speaker he is and how good he was at saying what he wanted to say, no matter what the question was and how the senators were having trouble getting him to cough up a straight answer. His intelligence is undeniable. Will then mentioned his blue eyes. No joke. It also bothers me that he worked in the Reagen administration for a while.

President Bush nominating judges is a very scary thing. This is a president who is very concerned about his legacy. He is a guy who desperately wants to push his agenda and leave a lasting impression on the country after his term is up or someone assassinates him. - Note to FBI and Secret Service: Red Flag this blog! - After he has royally fucked up all things middle-eastern and is taking a lot of flack from the media and politically savvy rappers like Kanye West (if my sarcasm didn't come through there, I'm sorry) for the relief efforts in New Orleans.

Quick note on Kanye West. I was watching a show on MTV2 where he was talking about making his new album and his life and shit and the fool had the audacity to say the following, "Yeah we're a lot of fun, I mean, I would want to be around us all the time if I weren't me." That is not what he said word for word, but the idea is there. Bo knows Bo and Kanye loves Kanye.

Anyway, I don't like saying Bush "screwed up," because he didn't screw up. Screwing up is letting a ground ball go through your legs or misreading a teleprompter. Bush made a conscious effort to do something stupid. That is not a "screw up." It's just plain incompetence. Good job, Red States.

So who knows what Bush's motivition is in the nominating process. Is he trying to pick a great chief justice who the country will be proud of for 25 years, or is he trying to push his wacked out crazy ass Christian program of American politics? Who knows for sure. I just hope soon to be Justice Roberts is as objective as he says he'll be. I hope he interupts the constitution without bias and does right by all the cases that will appear before him.

But Bush getting to nominate two justices couldn't be a scarier thing for this country.

One more disaster or terrorist attack under Bush and the first groundbreaking case to go in front of Roberts will be Christianity as the Nationl Religion. And people in the country will bite on it because that's what we do in times is crisis, find the leader and follow. Forget free thinking, let's get behind The Patriot Act. God help us if that ever happens.


The OC:

From matters that matter to ones that don't, let's recap last night's all new episode of The OC.

Right in the beginning of the episode Summer doomed Marisa and Ryan, telling them that "If you stick together everything will be alright." Those words are the knife in the back of teenage love. See Romeo and Juliet. Sticking together worked great for them.

Summer and Seth are really bent over a table right now for the Dean Dude. He is just pushing them around and you would think that Seth would be smart enough to be able to say, "Wait, Dude, you can't do this." But he just takes it. This is all setting up the episode where Summer and Seth gain leverage over the Dean when they catch him banging Taylor.

And how proposterous is it everytime a member of the Cooper-Nichol-Cooper family says, "We just want to be a real family again." Are they blind to the fact that this is impossible? Are they blind to the fact that they aren't even trying?

Jimmy has twice fucked them financially. Julie was banging Marisa's ex-boyfriend. Julie married the man who is her daughter's boyfriend's adopted Grandpa. Ryan also dated Cal's estranged daughter. By the way, I'm glad she's off the show. Marisa shot Ryan's brother. Ryan's brother tried to rape Marisa. Julie tried to put Marisa's boyfriend in jail by bribing Tre. And they have a daughter they probably have nearly forgot about in boarding school. Who are we kidding? They want to be a "normal family"? I'm afraid that ship, like Jimmy's, has left the port.

So Jimmy gets a royal ass kicking. He calls Marisa. She sees him, learns he's leaving, destroying her hopes of having a "normal family," and what do we hear Ryan say on the beach? In a casual voice, "Sorry about your dad." That's a hell of an understatement.

So Jeri Ryan's character is broke and she's fleeing. Looks like she was mooching off the rich, as I predicted, and I think she'll probably try to steal Kirsten's identity somehow or go on some psycho jealous stalking spree of the Cohen family.

And apparently Kirsten knew of all the things going on with Ryan, Tre, and Marisa. Where was her reaction or a comment on those event from her? Mmm...

And of the sex scene... Was it strange to anyone else that they cut from the sex, to the beating, to Kirsten buying booze, to Sandy on the phone, back to Sex, back to Jimmy getting his ass kicked, then sex, beating, sex, beating... It was bizarre. It's almost as if they were trying to create some parrallel between Jiimmy leaving and Ryan and Marisa having sex, which I don't understand. It's the end of something, the beginning of something else. Are we to believe that the sex is the beginnig of the end for Ryan and Marisa? Will their relationship go the way of Jimmy's stay in Newport?

About Caleb's Will... I could not have been more wrong. I'm also dissapointed, I wanted there to be more to it than "Oh, he's broke, sorry." Oh well.

It will be nice next week when Kirsten is back in her home and shit starts to settle again and they go back to some not-so-out-of-this-world plot lines. As long as the water isn't too muddy for a fun Holiday season, I'm cool.

Football:

So many games to watch this weekend. I cannot wait to see the Wisconsin/Michigan game Saturday night.
It doesn't get any better than college football.

But the game I'm most looking forward to seeing will be played on Wausau West's practice field at 9 am Saturday morning. My brother Bryce, 10, is in his first year of Pop Warner and will be beating the hell of a bunch of little fuckers on the other team's D-Line. How about swearing when speaking of 10-year old football? I'm going to be the next parent to beat the shit out of a coach in the middle of a little league game. My parents have always said that worst thing about youth sports is the parents. And it's true. But anyway, I'm looking forward to seeing Bryce move some bodies and open some holes and hopefully he'll get to play some D End, which is where he really wants to play.

MacBond, sorry to say you were 1 for 3 on my night last night. All you had right was The OC. I didn't go out and hit up Water St. And, surprisingly, I didn't watch CSI. I chose to watch Reunion instead, which is going to be a really good show. Again, the acting is a little shaky at times, but the plot is good and full of mystery. Hopefully it won't dissapoint in the end. It looks like the only shows I'll be watching this fall will be Las Vegas, My Name is Earl (I missed the premiere because of work, but I love Jason Lee - anyone see it???), The OC and Reunion. I wish I could watch Numbers, but I think work and getting wasted will interfere.

Alright. Can't wait to tailgate in my yard. Go Badgers.

Until The Next.

For those who don't read the Sports Guy, check this out from his most recent mailbag column.

Q: Please help settle a long-standing debate a friend and I have going. How far did Zack Morris get with Kelly Kapowski?-- Jonathan Chavez, Cambridge, Mass.

SG: I was thinking about bothering my new ESPN colleague Mario Lopez with this one (sorry, I just had to see how that looked in print) before deciding to take this one myself. I don't think Zack sealed the deal until the "College Years" ... and that show never happened. So I'm going with third base. And I mean "third base" in the context of when the show happened (the early-'90s), not what "third base" means now, which is probably something like "a threesome that isn't videotaped."

Let's get some feedback on this. My life being just a series of naps, I was up one morning to catch the "'There's no hope with dope' PSA" episode of Saved by the Bell and that just brought back the innosence of the show for me. So on the Saved by the Bell, the high school years, judging by the huge crowd erruptions for every peck on the check kiss, I'm going to say Zack never went further than a little boob cupping. But the college years, yes, the college years. They should have made that show a primetime one on TNT or something. It would have been a great opportunity to take those characters, who were very well established, and do a more realistic show about life between 18 and 22 or so. They needed to include more drinking, drugs, sex, the works. Pretty much The OC without parents.

I want to hear from you. How far did Zack and Kelly go? Also, what's your favorite episode of Saved by the Bell?

It's no fair reading this blog and not contributing, so I expect to read some things from the girls across the alley.

I'm sitting here on Will's computer hoping all he does is play poker on it and feeling that I must review last week's episode of The OC before tonight's airs.

First, this new Dean of Hell guy or whatever his title is reminds me of a Hannibal Lecter with softer edges. This, of course, could be manipulated by the full body shot of him that they introduced him with last week and used another time or two as well. It was sort of reminiscent of the first shot we see of Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs, which by the way, is not a porno nor is it a movie about farming.

I don't remember seeing the Dean blink, which is something I always try to look for in actors, I don't know why, but it's a creepy thing when they don't blink for extended periods of time. Hopkins is great at it, speaking of spooky. Other actors great at not blinking: Clive Owen, Paul Newman, Russell Crowe. Actors to whom blinking is more important than breathing: Vince Vaughn, Ben Affleck, Owen and Luke Wilson. Check it out.

Ryan's character arch is an odd one. He started off as a kid who would punch you in the face for looking at him wrong, then he showed a softer heart in matters of his brother and Marisa, not we're back to hitting people one week after we saw Ryan's first public display of sarcasm. Maybe it makes sense, maybe it doesn't, or maybe the creators just realized this:

Seth and Summer fucked before Ryan and Marisa. Now, every relationship is different. In one a guy might take a dip on the first date, in another the couple may wait a few months, and in some people might wait to consumate until marriage. Seth and Summer were together a short time and were both virgins before Seth flopped around like a fish out of water. Marisa banged Luke. Ryan has a sexual history we know little about, but from certain comments we can assume he's a crafty veteran of doing the deed. See the once pregnant ex.

So, how have Marisa and Ryan avoided having sex this whole time? I know they have been up and down, but she's also been really drunk a lot, which doesn't hurt Ryan's opportunities.

So there's the immature, college male perspective on the situation. And when are we going to get some insight into Seth and Summer's "special private moments." I'm guessing in this episode.

My point in bringing this up is that the reason Ryan hit the Dean Guy was not to further Ryan's rep as a badass, but to allow the writers to bring he and Marisa closer together, to allow them to get intimate. Because now, as the previews say, their parents are driving them apart, so they only have each other now and what better way to commemorate that than with a little plop and wiggling, to use a euphamism for sex stolen from my brother.
I'm sitting here, at Will's computer, looking through songs and turned on Mr. Jones by The Counting Crows. What's up 1994?

And how about this Taylor girl. Really hot. Really based on stereotypes. Really going to be in on some conspiracy to do some damage to our Fearsome Foursome, probably cahooting with Dean Lecter.

How is Sandy going to deter Ryan from seeing Marisa. When was the last time Ryan was detered from doing anything he wanted to do? Marisa... going to be one fucked up adult.

I think we're three episodes away from an episode in which 75% of the show is devoted to Caleb's will.

Jeri Ryan, you're back on the bottle, you slut. What's her deal? The shitty part is is that we know she'll be around for a while and do some damage, otherwise why would Fox bring in an actress of Jeri Ryan's fame? Kristen will find the boozing, leave, then come home and play a central role in trying to rescue Ryan.

Sort of like in The Program, bringing your Heisman hopeful QB back from rehab for the last few games of the year and hoping he'll be the hero he once was.

So tonight I'll be lotion in one hand, kleenex in the other, waiting for Ryan to lay some pipe. I hope you will be getting ready in a similar manner wherever you watch the show. And I hope the scene is done with as little taste as possible.

Mr. Jones is over. Now it's time for "Follow You Down" by the Gin Blossoms.

Until The Next.

Alright, here's the deal. I swear I am not going on another sabbitcal. My computer at home is really fucked up and I hate blogging on campus. Hopefully my comp will be up and running tomorrow, so until then, hang with me. And check back, I'll try to drop little notes until my machine is ready.

I clicked on a link that some little vixen on my buddy list, who shall remain nameless, sent me. I was thinking with the lower brain and hit a bad one and now I'm temporarily technologically disabled. Do you think that's the really fucking ridiculous name our government would give my situation? Probably.

Until The Next.