In Other News...

I don't think about sex 24/7. It just seems like it. Apparently, it's what most inspires me to write.

But it's not the only thing on my mind:

• How pitiful is the ownership of the Pittsburgh Pirates? So fucking pitiful that they spent the whole first half of the season saying that Freddy Sanchez was nothing but a bench player. And, so of course, he wins the first National League batting title by a Pirate since Bill Matlock in 1983. This? is just one of the many reasons we haven't had a season worth watching since 1992. And, no doubt, he'll be gone within a year.
• Much as I missed them Sunday, I'm awfully glad the Steelers didn't play this weekend. I don't know what's going on with them, but they need this time to figure out what the hell they are doing. I have no worries about the defense. This extra week of healing time should put Polamalu back in the pink and running like a madman all over the field like a man possessed. But the offense? Scary. My suggestions? First, quit keeping Ben in the pocket. He's not so good in the pocket and never has been. Let him do what he does best. I know the receiving corps isn't exactly setting the world on fire, but at the least we have a tight end who has good hands. May if Ben didn't stay in the pocket so much, he'd actually see him. Second, if Willie Parker is gaining 4-6 yards per run? Let him run. See? It's not so hard. Oh, and let's not have Colclough returning punts. Please.
• Bob Woodward is back in my good graces. I certainly don't know if he planned it this way, but lulling the Bushies into thinking he had their backs through his first two books about this administration sure did set them up for a terrific sucker punch with this new one. And he's backing it all up by providing his recorded interviews with them. Too fucking funny for words.
• I hate to say I told you so, but...I told you so. This adminstration has lied and covered up ever since they were first elected...sorry, appointed. But, as always happens with liars, the pigeons are coming home to roost, so to speak. It's so bad that I almost feel sorry for all my Republican friends these days. Even they are voting Democratic this year. It's possible that PA may actually lose its claim to fame as a swing state. That certainly doesn't bring a tear to my eye.
• And what about that whole Foley thing? Doesn't exactly do much for the Republican congressional leadership, huh? It was apparently so well known among the young pages and for so long that they've been warning each other about him since 2001. You can't tell me that, if that is true, no one in a position of leadership didn't know or at least suspect. And even when they did know, they apparently decided to keep it amongst themselves until after November. So they could pick a safe replacement. Yeah, let's trust them to do that. The same guys who kept this guy on as Chairman of the Caucus for Missing and Exploited Children, in the Republican leadership as deputy whip, and as a member of the Ways and Means Committee. Oh, and he's from Florida. Quelle surprise.
• In local politics, Santorum and Swann are getting their asses kicked all over the state. And little Ricky just doesn't know when to stop. First, he rips off the Penn Hills School District for thousands so he can cyberschool his kids who live full-time in his cushy suburb of DC. A ripoff he is eventually forced to pay back after a court disagrees with his definition of "primary residence" as being the place you buy and keep empty of all humanity and furniture just so you can say you are a resident of PA. Then he inexplicably reminds everyone what a ripoff he is by running a campaign commercial pimping his kids, who then talk about what a great dad he is because he has them in cyberschool because he cares about them so much. And now it seems Ricky had requested some time ago that Allegheny County give his "home" a homestead exemption on property taxes, an exemption available only on primary residences. Now he has magnanimously said that although it is his primary residence and that it definitely qualifies for the exemption, he is voluntarily giving it up. Yeah, I'll bet the county is happy about it for no other reason than they don't want to rack up the legal bills the Penn Hills School District did fighting it. And all so he could save $70. Hell, I'll give him $70 if he'll just go away, quietly.