Weekend In Review

Three thoughts from the weekend:

1) Dear lord almighty, the Broncos are terrible. My friend Drew scored two free tickets to yesterdays Broncos/Chargers tumble from his work, and was excessively kind enough to take me along. The experience of the game was quite fun, at least until the weather suddenly went from sunny and mid-60's to cloudy, low 50's, and raining. Fortunately, by the point the rains really kicked in, the Broncos' extreme suckitude had kicked in enough that the game was entirely out of hand, 38-3, so we (along with nearly everyone else in the stadium) felt free to leave without fear of missing any display of quality from the home squad.

I later found out that the Broncos had been mauled by injuries, with both of their starting cornerbacks and their center taken down, but still. It looked like spring practice for the Charger's O.

2) The mainstream media (MSM for those hip to the bloggy lingo) still really sucks. Watching Meet the Press on Sunday, Ted Koppel raises the fact that all these journalists from New York, the ones who know Rudy Guiliani the best, are writing these screeds about how horrible he is and raising all these negative stories and issues about him, and doesn't that say something about maybe, if people knew a little more about him, we'd all be terrified about him having even more power than he did as governor?

But, of course, we never actually got to the point where they discussed what those problems were, what sort of things people might actually want to know about Giuliani. Because, you know, that might actually inform the populace, rather than titillate them, and information doesn't drive the ratings!

Instead, we got them going all meta, and explaining how Rudy's Powers Of 9/11 meant that it all just washed off him.

Apparently it never occurred to them that the reason that all of Rudy's horrible personality traits don't actually stick to him is that the media refuses to actually talk about those traits. Instead, we get all sorts of analysis about how people want Daddy to protect them from the terrorists hiding under their bed, and how people should vote for Rudy because only He Can Defeat The Mighty Clinton Machine!

Ugh.

Okay, no time for a third thought now. More later.