Hannity Ploy
April 1st, Hannity gets on the air and says it's time he stopped faking things, it's time he was honest with his listeners. He's become a liberal. And people bought this? Apparently. Man, they're letting anyone become a conservative these days.

But really, anyone could see that Hannity was just scared that the new Liberal Talk Radio Network - Air America - is gonna take all his listeners, so he had to 'change' his views. He's just trying to keep his audience and show. What? It was a joke? Really?

Liberal Talk Radio
Speaking of Air America - and they're gaining ground fast. Yup, third rank on google when searching for Air America. Yup that's one lower than (gasp) Mel Gibson's movie and two below a paint ball company. The paint ball company actually owning airamerica.com. Ya'd think they check if they could get the domain name before naming the network.

Anyway - it easy to see they have conservative radio shaking - Hannity trys to keep his audience by pretending to be liberal. Rush takes a vacation, so he can blame the ratings slump on the guest hosts. It's rumored that Rush may not come back on Monday, and can you blame him? How can anyone go head to head with Al Franken?

It's over folks, Fox News is next. Dan Rather for President. Or at least Tom Brokaw for veep.

Seriously though, you know how irritating it must be when on your first day on-air, you competition views you as so great a threat he yawns and takes a vacation?

And ya gotta check out the site - airamericaradio.com - I don't know why, I just laughed.

Zell Yells
Speaking of guest hosts, Roger Hedgecock brought up this quote from Zell Miller:

"It's obvious to me that this country is rapidly dividing itself into two camps - the wimps and the warriors," Miller said. "The ones who want to argue and assess and appease, and the ones who want to carry this fight to our enemies and kill them before they kill us."

On Friday the guest host was Walter E. Williams, and his discussion on economics was surprisingly not boring. Of course not boring is relative, and when you compare to what I was doing at the time there's a lot of things that are 'not boring'.

He also touched the subject of affirmative action. Very good thoughts of what it has done to other countries. All bad.

Oh, and if you go to his site, and if you don't have high speed dial-up, that photo of his is around 800k. Just a warning.

Affirmative Action?
Speaking of affirmative action, Mayor Street (of Philadelphia) has lost a long time supporter. The Chairman of the African American Chamber of Commerce is upset because he claims Street put Michael Williams, a gay man, at the head of the Minority Business Enterprise Council.

He says that Street only gave Williams the position because he is gay.

Hmm? So affirmative action for African Americans is okay, but affirmative action for gays is not? How 'bout both being wrong?

Mars Update
Speaking of Philadelphia, I was thinking about the Mars Mission this week. Started out the year talking about it, but seems I haven't heard much in the news lately. So I wandered over the to mission's site and checked out the latest Opportunity Update. I quote:

"During the martian morning, the Moessbauer spectrometer was turned off before atmospheric science was conducted with the miniature thermal emission spectrometer and the panoramic camera."

Maybe that's why I haven't heard much about it.

Continuity
Speaking of things that you can't understand, I tried to focus on continuity - hi Bobby - this week. Tried to bridge the subjects together so there was some sort of flow. By the way, this week was the Cherry Blossom parade in Washington DC. I'm not sure why I'm telling you this. Did you remember to change your clocks?