"Bits & Pieces" - Commentary by Tony Seton

Bits & Pieces

Bits and pieces from this reporter’s notebook.

Da-deet-da-deet-da-deet-deet....Watching Whacko Jacko making the perp walk in handcuffs, ya gotta wonder if everyone around him isn’t called puppy. You know, like they are all blind and sucking at the rich teat? That man, or whatever he is, should have been taken out of circulation long ago, and those who have benefitted from his perversions should now join him in the pokey.

Da-deet-da-deet-da-deet-deet....If you are not paying attention, you might think that George Bush is getting a so-so review. Maybe in this country, where a serious alternative choice has yet to surface, but in other nations, the assessment is less charitable. Said the Italian newspaper Repubblica, the Bush administration is "going through a period of insanity that is worsening every day." The mayor of London commented, "I actually think that Bush is the greatest threat to life on this planet that we've most probably ever seen." Those quotes from a Times column last week.

Da-deet-da-deet-da-deet-deet....The team The Bush Boy used to partly own wound up in last place last year. The Rangers of Texas, however, can lay claim to the league’s most valuable player, Alex Rodriguez, who, by the way, is a looking for a new place to play baseball. His next contract could be worth $179 million. Does no one else find that obscene? How many school roofs could that repair? How many flu shots for the elderly? How many prosthetics for American soldiers returning from Iraq?

Da-deet-da-deet-da-deet-deet....They can’t get it right in Belgrade, where Serbians failed for the third time to elect a president. The problem was low voter turnout. Only a third of the registered voters cast a ballot and the constitution requires 50%. The leader in the balloting was an ultranationalist closely associated with their former leader and psychopath, Slobodan Milosevic.

Da-deet-da-deet-da-deet-deet....Louisiana voted itself a governor. Faced with a choice between a 32-year-old son of Indian immigrants and a 60-year-old white woman who’d held public office for two decades in The Pelican State, the people opted for the latter by a narrow margin. She’s a Democrat, and the first woman governor of Louisiana.

Da-deet-da-deet-da-deet-deet....Fame can be fleeting and sometimes damp, the guy who washed over Niagara Falls and lived has joined a small circus now touring Texas. One person buying tickets was unimpressed, saying, "So he's a celebrity now? I really think he's taking it a little too far. I'm glad that he made it alive, that's a miracle. But to brag about it?"

And that’s SetonnoteS...I’m Tony Seton.