Just had to take a couple of minutes to post a few thoughts on the holiday past.

Seemed like the only story on CNN, Fox and MSNBC were the various airline delays, caused by security problems. It seems that most folks, at least here in the U.S., have gotten over the 9/11 jitters and are back traveling by air. Also, the U.S. has begun taking the fingerprints and photographs of foreign travelers, entering the country. Personally, I can’t get that worked up about it and fully expect other nations to begin doing the same to American passengers.

Starting this past weekend, the two top stories, locally and nationally, were the Pete Rose autobiography (wherein “Charlie Hustle” finally admits what we’ve all known for the past fourteen years, the fact that he bet not only on baseball, but his own team). The other is the pointless tale of Britney Spears wedding and then dumping her childhood friend (sometimes identified as her ‘high school sweetheart’), while partying in Las Vegas. Personally, I can’t begin to tell you of the number of times that I’ve been bored and decided to marry somebody I was hanging out with.

Re: the whole Britney thing, is it really possible that if these two have been friends for so long that they didn’t know each others ‘likes or dislikes’ or rather Britney wanted children? Sounds more like Mother Spears stepping in upon finding the bank account might have to be split more than she liked.

I’ll probably have more to add later, but that sums up things for now.