gotta remember to tell ellen that we’re back into that time of year when on occasion we’ll play a christmas tune during the show, talk about the holidays, shopping, etc. and every now and then greet or say goodbye to a guest with a holiday greeting of some kind.
that’s right, it’s that time of year when along with the merry christmases and happy new years’s (pronounced yearz-uhz) we might say happy holidays — not because we’re pagan, not because we don’t want to offend someone, but because it’s another acceptable greeting people use during the holidays (notice we call them “the holidays” as there are indeed multiple holidays in close proximity to one another).
anyway, i have to remind ellen to be ready for the emails that will come in accusing us of being p.c. or crazy libs or any number of other things we may get called when, for the sake of variety, we choose to say happy holidays instead of merry christmas.
of course, when i do get email like that, the one thing that always comes to mind: that’s the spirit! (sigh)
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no doubt at some point, you’ve heard ellen and me talk about what a terrible driver she is (as evidenced by the ridiculous number of tickets she gets) vs. what an excellent driver i am. and i’m also pretty good at parallel parking too. (having lived overseas and driven a car that was no bigger than a t-shirt with tires and having had to put that thing into parking spots the size of manhold covers…you get good at it. or you pay high insurance premiums). i’m no genius, but i can usually judge if the car will fit and get it into the slot on the first try.
what’s wrong with people?
you can literally drive another car through there. every time i go to the m&s grill, some one is parked like this. i’m not kidding. it’s like there’s a disturbance in the magnetic field in front of the restaurant…it’s like being in “lost” only hawaii is waaaayyyyyyyy over that way.
tonite’s brilliant parker was from illinois, the land of lincoln. you could fit two abe’s end to end in that gap.
anyway, the reason i’m convinced it has something to do with the natural forces of the earth and not bad parking, the cops never mess with these cars. they roll right on by without a second thought as if they know that stopping to rebuke the driver/parker will only suck them into whatever unhuman vortex of parking chaos rules the east end of country club plaza.
that’s why i only visit those parts. the west side is much less prone to such anomalies…and cap grill-goers wouldn’t be caught dead parking their own cars.
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perhaps the best thing about my job is interviewing people. and given the kind of show we do, we’re lucky that when the big story comes around, we’re often lucky enough to land the big interview.
this morning…er…saturday night it was kansas 3rd district congressman dennis moore in the moments immediately following the house vote on a healthcare (why isn’t that a compound word yet?) overhaul. only got to about half of the questions i had prepared for the interview, because the congressman said he had other interviews to give… and had to cut our chat off. here’s some of what we didn’t have time to discuss, questions i really wish he’d had time to answer.
what’s being cut from medicare and how are the affected people supposed to make up for it? will this eventually drive the private health insurance industry into extinction? republicans say this will raise taxes on the middle class and small business. are they right? immigration was an issue with this bill. will illegal immigrants be able to buy insurance through the government marketplace? how much jail time are we looking at if we don’t carry insurance? and how worried are you that your vote will put you out of a job in a year (that was the last question he wouldn’t let me get in)?
if you missed the interview, check it out.
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