You geezers out there, you do listen to “Prairie Home Companion,” don’t you? I mean 6PM Saturday or Sunday morning, surely gives on time to turn back the clock to good old radio days and listen to home-spun humor and great music. Well, if you are a fan of Garrison Keeler and “Prairie Home Companion,” you absolutely MUST SEE the film of the same title. I looked it up on Google and all the reviewers gave it from 3 1/2 to 5 stars, and I agree. What’s it about? Not much. Why is it so good? It just is, and that’s all I can say about it. While going to the theatre, I also wanted to watch the All Star Game, so I just turned the VCR on at LP speed and taped it. Know what? I watched the whole game in just a bit over an hour by fast forwarding the commercials. As much as I do love baseball, I have often heard it called ’three hours of boredom and ten minutes of action,’ and that might not be too far off if you can manage to sit through a game and watch the commercials. From now on, even with the World Series, I think I’ll tape it and skip the commercials. I know, they pay big bucks to run them, but I don’t buy new cars, eat at fast food restaurants, or drink beer if I can avoid it anyway, so they don’t apply to me. Speaking of beer, all the guys with so called “beer bellies,” I’ll bet, have drunk a lot of beer in their lifetimes. Is it the malt or hops that sit in the stomach when gallons a week are consumed? I’ll take a good bourbon any day.
Note that the Bombay and Spain subway and train bombings were not done by Muslims. I think that bomb making has become such a common practice and art, that any outraged group can fashion one and escape notice till the deed is done. As I said before, guerilla warfare always seems to win, because it can be done by concealed thugs. The bombings are guerilla warfare, and there is no known way to stop it. The Republicans need a terrorist strike just before the November elections to show the fools who vote that they are the ones who should be kept in office. I’ll never vote for any but local offices again, as I feel the elections are fixed. Ohio in the last one, and Florida in the one before. Electronic voting is almost universal now, and that is easily fixed. It has been said that if there are no paper ballots, there can be no honest election. Probably true. And about my mention of Catholics in the last column. Hey guys I have absolutely no prejudice against Catholics or any religion. It was merely an ILLUSTRATION, so stop the e-mails. Meanwhile, Iraq and Afghanistan go from bad to worse, to unbelievable. Will there be any Iraq left after the obvious civil war ends? We started it of course. Has the Neutrality Act of 1937 ever been nullified?