Dear CNN,

If you continue to insist that you have "the most news in the morning" will you kindly refrain from showing segments about Tyra Bank's weight or a racehorse being euthanized? They cheapened an otherwise somber morning show covering politics and the war in Iraq.

Note to programmers: the weather man should be the time for humor and lightheartedness. Everything else that is "news" is typically serious fare, for adults.

Sincerely,

Edward

Highlights from this weekend:

• obtaining vernor's despite the heights' giant being sold out of it
• going bowling
• snow!
• watching bittorrent'd v.mars episodes

Lowlights from this weekend:

• smokin' aces
• bdc misadventures
• republicans in the service industry

You guys?

werkz advice: skip it.

I caught smokin' aces this weekend with Tilda. Despite artificially lowering my expectations, the movie itself failed to live up to the great cast. The main problem was simply the writing of Joe Carnahan and the somewhat idiotic casting (Ryan Reynolds makes no jokes? Alicia Keys as an ambivalent bisexual? Jeremy Piven acting depressed?)

Instead of a nail-biting explosion-laced witty-dialog laden affair, Shane Black-style, we instead get violence without humor, meaningless plot-twists that are foreshadowed hours in advance to the audience and almost no memorable lines or characters.

Forrest noted today a few Democratic Pres/VP combinations:

Obama / Biden or Clinton / Richardson

And his personal suggestion:

Edwards / Biden

What do you guys think? I'm not a huge Biden fan...I actually think Edwards would, once again, make a great VP, but he'd never stoop so low. Richardson has some serious baggage, but the guy's akin to Rendell: a guy's guy who doesn't mince words.

My current favorite would probably be Obama/Clark. Clark's flameout last time around was almost entirely due to his early flatfootedness. Plus, it would defend against any criticism of Obama as "not seasoned enough", freeing Obama to go on the offense on almost all topics, something he's done before.

If you're on facebook, go join obama's group. They're aiming for a million members, which would certainly be something to see...

While you're at it, all good Dems should join the Democratic Party group.

Today's must-read:

Q Here's what Jim Webb, senator from Virginia, said in his Democratic response last night. He said:

"The President took us into the war recklessly. We are now, as a nation, held hostage to the predictable and predicted disarray that has followed."

And it's not just Jim Webb, it's some of your good Republican friends in the Senate and the House, are now seriously questioning your credibility because of the blunders, of the failures. All right, Gordon Smith --

THE VICE PRESIDENT: Wolf, Wolf, I simply don't accept the premise of your question. I just think it's hogwash. Remember --

Q What, that there were no blunders? The President himself says there were blunders --

Read it all.

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A forgettable State of the Union speech, overall. No human-animal hybrids, or references to steroids. Overall, actually, quite a snoozer.

The one bright spot that I felt occurred afterward, with the Democratic response. For the first time in years, I felt like the Dems hit back hard and strong. Senator Webb's closing statement that if Bush didn't lead, that "we" would, was great. I'm glad that others agree with me.