Miller, Cooper and the NHL Get Iced

Still no baby, for those of you wondering. Gramma-to-be Phyllis got to town yesterday (see the pic above). Sarah's hoping this puppy drops ASAP, yet she still looks wonderful.

Looks like the NHL's done for this year. Too bad. Great sport, mainly if you live in Canada, Vermont or...well, either of those places. If you live near that unprotected Northern border, however, please be extra alert - an invasion is more possible now than at any time since the wild crossover success of Bob and Doug McKenzie.

Pitchers and catchers report this week for MLB Spring Training. Ironically, Jose Conseco also will report this week to his libel lawyers' offices for a number of weeks of intensive grilling. Many people seem to care about the Nats getting the ball rolling for DC. But by many, I mean a bit more than a handful. Still, it sure beats Quebec.

JD Guckert's still free to go about his greasy bidness, but it appears that fellow complicit Valerie Plame hacksters Judith Miller and Matthew Cooper may be going to jail. To be fair, Miller and Cooper never printed anything about Plame or even showed their penises to the world. But I'm of the mind that they should just tell the Feds who gave them the illegal info on Plame to damage her husband, Joseph Wilson. Sure, they'll be audited for the next 20 years and probably have a bugs planted in their anuses (or would that be "ani"?) in stealthy nighttime raids on their toney DC townhouses. But it makes more sense to deal with that shameful, unconstitutional discomfort than to allow the Bushies to hide their dirty tricks behind your journalistic ethics. If you don't know the backstory, a good primer came up in yesterday's White House briefing.

Oh, and it now appears quite obviously that JD Guckert/Jeff Gannon was in the White House well before there was a fake news organization for him to work with. Me thinkee this will get much more stinkee.

I just saw GOP Senate Staffer Robert Traynham on CNN's "Inside Politics" make a big deal of Ho-Ho Dean saying something hamfisted last Friday about Republicans not being able to get many African-Americans in a conference room unless they're "hotel staff." Maybe Dean tried to make a lame-ass funny. Maybe he made a faux pas. But Traynham (who is African-American, and an obvious conservative with a big "C") impresses me not even the slightest smidge with his mock indignation. Especially when he cited a handful of states (Florida, Pennslyvania...um, Moronia) that in '04 voted "in double digits" for Dubya. So 10% now is the benchmark for "foul!" cries? If so, as one of the more than 10% of people that believe Paula Abdul is an obvious Percocet addict, I call on FOX to dump her from the panel of judges for "American Idol" or they will rue the loss of my viewership. Beeyatch. As implied, Traynham and I are equally well-positioned and utterly delusional in our attacks.

Greenspan threw some cold water on Dubya's Social Security plan today in testimony before Congress. Which leads me to ask, has ANYONE come out to endorse this plan? If you've got links or thoughts in that regard, please let me know.