This is bizzare: A man well-known as a cat collector led police on a high speed chase in Texas that reached 100 miles an hour. He claimed he was trying to get a sick cat to the hospital before it died.
Baseball “Iron Man”Cal Ripken – who played in a record 2130 consecutive games, a record that probably will never be broken --was inducted into the Hall of Fame today, gaining 98.5 percent of the vote. This means that 1.5 percent of the 545 voters did not for Cal.
Here’s my suspected explanation for why these 8 people did not select Ripken on the first ballot:
Tony Gwynn also was inducted yesterday to the Hall of Fame, aother choice that should have been unanimous. Thirteen baseball writers failed to vote for him.
Cuckoo. Cuckoo. Cuckoo.
Tonight, on Big Brother 8, we'll find out whether Kail will be evicted from the house. Who is Kail? She is the Christian contestant who is lying about her wealth and hiding the fact that she owns several businesses. She also has expressed horror, on national TV, at the thought of having a gay or lesbian son or daughter.
Think there's two more Harry Potter films?
He'll be the man "officially" in charge for three hours or so this morning, while President Bush gets his colonoscopy, thanks to section 3 of the 25th amendment.
Gays love, love, love The Bionic Woman. This is common knowledge. Here's my earlier post on this.
In about 25 minutes Emmy nominations will be announced. Look for my thoughts later today. 
After the post yesterday morning, a reader emailed that Tiffany Brissette, 32, who played VIKI the robot on "Small Wonder," has a full page photo in the latest Details magazine and is working as a nurse in Boulder, Colo. There's her current photo at right. Here is the source.
An email I received last night around 9:17: "Watch Bill O'Reilly on the repeat tonight at 11 on Fox News if you can. It's the first segment and your blood will boil."
The Former US. Surgeon General told Congress yesterday that top Bush administration officials repeatedly tried to weaken or suppress important public health reports because of ... political considerations. Full story here.
We have seen thee, queen of cheese,I also found a second poem, hand-written by my friend Elgie, circa 1987, in which the phrase "pebbles of my mind" is employed, which I may post later today or this week. Anybody want to read it?
Lying quietly at your ease,
Gently fanned by evening breeze,
Thy fair form no flies dare seize.
All gaily dressed soon you'll go
To the great Provincial Show,
To be admired by many a beau
In the city of Toronto.
Cows numerous as a swarm of bees,
Or as the leaves upon the trees,
It did require to make thee please,
And stand unrivalled, queen of cheese.
May you not receive a scar as
We have heard that Mr. Harris
Intends to send you off as far as
The great World's show at Paris.
Of the youth beware of these,
For some of them might rudely squeeze
And bite your cheek, then songs or glees
We could not sing, oh! queen of cheese.
We'rt thou suspended from balloon,
You'd cast a shade, even at noon;
Folks would think it was the moon
About to fall and crush them soon.
"Amber" was nominated for eviction on tonight's episode of Big Brother 8 on CBS. Here's how she put the news in perspective:I feel like being on the block -- [starts crying] I'm sorry -- is a gift from Him. I feel that God put me on the block as a gift to prepare me for long-term things. I think this is just His way of making me stronger.Later, she added:
I really feel God is on my side; I think He is going to do the right thing.Now, Amber seems nice enough. But please, America, repeat after me:
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix opens tomorrow, and The Simpsons Movie opens July 27.
U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch said on Face the Nation yesterday morning that Scooter Libby received no special treatment whatsoever when his sentence was commuted last week by President George Bush.
Frank Rich's column this morning in the New York Times was called "A Profile in Cowardice." If you haven't guessed, it was about President George Bush.Mr. Bush’s failure to have the courage of his own convictions was apparent early in his history, when he professed support for the Vietnam War yet kept himself out of harm’s way when he had the chance to serve in it. In the White House, he has often repeated the feckless pattern that he set back then and reaffirmed last week in his hide-and-seek bestowing of the Libby commutation.Rich's full argument about the Bush cowardice is here. And it's worth reading.
Next Sunday is the premiere of VH1's newest reality show, Scott Baio is 45 ... and Single, in which the commitment phobic Baio tries to charge up his love life by finding his real-life Joanie. This is the way the show is described on the VH1 Website:Over the past 25 years, Scott Baio has lived a life that all red-blooded American males' would sell their big screen TV, car and soul for, boasting a jaw-dropping roster of erotic ex's that would even make Warren Beatty blush. This extensive line-up of Hollywood honeys include: Heather Locklear, Pam Anderson, Denise Richards and Nicolette Sheridan.Well, I'm not 45 years old, not yet, but one thing I have learned is that ... people don't change.
But now, staring down the barrel of middle age, Scott has come to the end of his philandering rope. At 45, he finds himself at a mid-life crisis of mythic proportions, wondering why he's still single, alone and still unable to settle down and commit to a substantial, meaningful relationship.
With nowhere else to turn, Scott has decided to fully surrender the next eight weeks of his life to a highly-regarded life-coach. This person will guide him on a grueling, soul-searching mission; forcing him to confront a laundry list of old flames in order to hopefully get to the heart of his lonely heart condition.
Each episode, he will have to confront another chapter from his semi-sordid past, by actually reconnecting with some of his most substantial and combustible flames in order to get the bottom of his bad-boy behavior.
With the help of his long-time pals, Scott will be able to successfully sift through the wreckage of his past, and endure an assortment of life-altering activities, (including abstinence), in order to finally earn the chance at actually maintaining a meaningful, stable, healthy relationship.
Before the baseball season began, we here at The Cup of Joe predicted that Barry Bonds would break Hank Aaron's home-run record on July 19 against the Cubs, which at the time was way earlier than conventional wisdom. Now, with Bonds needing only four more homers to tie, we're sticking with this prediction.
Big Brother 8 aired for the first time Thursday night on CBS, and two gay men who had a bitter breakup were reunited, unexpectedly, as "houseguests" for perhaps all summer. Oy.
... At least that's what they're calling it in Quebec, where the photo at right was snapped on rue Sainte-Catherine.
I don't shop much at Kmart, not when there's a Target within walking distance. But I recently found myself inside my neighborhood's closest Kmart, on a mission to buy ... coffee.
Last night, in a special comment on Countdown With Keith Olberman, Olberman again suggested that George Bush should be impeached. This action could lead, eventually, to his removal from office.
