The geniuses at the Chiago school of economics think the problem with the economy is that the American worker just woke up six months ago deciding not to work. So it's all our fault.

It couldn't possibly have anything to do with bush's extreme course of de-regulation. If you think of business as a game and that bush removed all of the refs from the field, how could you expect anything other than what we got.

Next time the republicans are in charge I'll have to remember the bush years and loot my way into riches. Hell, if everyone else gets to do it and not go to jail, why not me? I mean, seriously. Bush and his cronies looted the country and talk radio has convinced us that they shouldn't be prosecuted for "the good of the country". What a load of horseshit.

Score one for Facebook. For years I've been trying on and off to find an old friend of mine from my University of Miami days, Miguel Rodriguez, on the Interwebz. Seriously, the name Miguel Rodriguez is like the Spanish version of Joe Smith, so Googling was a needle in a haystack. This morning though, problem solved, Miguel hooked up with me through Facebook. Nice kid, nice wife, nice tats!

Please, oh please, let this magic negro thing run and run. Every day it goes the red slash on this map:

The red indicates who thinks this song is funny. If that's the only people the RNC wants to go after, great!

I really find it amusing when I hear pillhead fans try to use his drug-addled logic to try and defend him and the song. In this particular clip a Coulter wannabe yells that she is only defending Limbaugh, not the song. Ranting on about how it's some absurdity on an absurdity or whatever. Who cares. Limbaugh knows as much about comedy as he does about government, absolutely nothing. If you have to explain a joke it's not funny.

Yes, I would like at some point to see a strong RNC to actually provide some counterpoint. But in the meantime I think it's a great idea for the RNC to rid itself of this cancer of bigots and bigotry. Start fresh; dump Limbaugh and Hannity, clean house of these jokers who think that racial slurs are still funny.

On the spur of the moment I went out to see Gran Torino tonight. It's a solid movie that has a lot to say and says it all very effectively. The personal interplay between the central characters is excellent, though the acting by the Mung kids is stilted, though that could be intentional. It certainly improved by the end.

One big drawback came as Clint himself decided to sing over the credits. Bad, bad, bad idea. Clint's voice is weak and raspy. The lyrics were sappy and horrible. It was just a crying shame to spoil what was otherwise an Oscar contender with a really ham-handed move right at the end.

Oh, and for all you codgers looking to go to the movie to get redemption for being a nasty old coot, please, don't. Though the movie goes to lengths to say that Clint's kids are spoiled rotten with an endless sense of entitlement, believe me, there are two sides to that story. And being on the other end of an endless cranky and angry old codger is no fun. Even if you don't expect anything in return.

This "Barack The Magic Negro" story is great. I would love to see it play and play and play. This is exactly what the country and the Republican party need to cleanse itself of this bar racist blood forever. It's very clear to anyone who listens to Limbaugh and Hannity that they are overt racists. Let's call them on it, have it out, and let the Republican party stand up for alternative ideals and not be the party of white people.