Saw Slumdog Millionaire a couple of days ago.  Not impressed.  Decent performances, kinda dumb story.  What's the moral?  Keep chasing after the girl and she'll keep telling you to piss off until you're wealthy?  Nice ...

I went to the Houston NABC for the last weekend.  I didn't do much, had a couple of huge hands (a 5-3-3-2 28 count and a hand I bid 2C P 2D P 7S) and fizzled in the only national event I played, the Swiss (the only skin on our wall was newly inducted Hall of Famer Mark Lair's.)  It was nice to see George Jacobs win the Vanderbilt.

Jeff and Paul and Izzy and her new partner, Sondra Blank, triumphed on BBO against Cayne a couple of days ago.  I missed the dramatic comeback as it conflicted with '24', but a good showing nevertheless.

America is so messed up (thanks Dubya.)  The only Republicans left virtually all come from conservative districts and are consequently more worried about their primary opponents than their general election opponents.  So they swing rabidly to the right.  They're irrelevant.  We need at least 2 grown-up parties for this deal to work.  Maybe it's time for a 2nd party in America.

Here's more of the platform I'd like to see from the party I'd vote for:

We don't subscribe to various Bronze Age religions.  If you want to believe superstitious nonsense, please keep it to yourself.  America is not a Christian nation.  None of the founding fathers were Christian. (For instance, Thomas Jefferson wrote his own version of the New Testament omitting all references to the divinity of Jesus and Benjamin Franklin was an atheist.  I really like this link: http://www.wonderfulatheistsofcfl.org/Quotes.htm)

We believe in balanced budgets but also recognize the validity of Keynesian economics.  No budget should project deficits as far as the eye can see.  If we had negative economic growth last year, we can run a deficit up to 10% of (projected) tax revenues collected, but if we didn't, we can't run a deficit at all.

We believe in freedom and liberty.  Victimless crimes will not be prosecuted.  More power will be delegated to the states, as intended by our founding fathers.  If you don't like life in Alabama, move to California or New York or Oregon.  I wonder just how great the United States would be if we had just let those backwards Confederates secede and be done with them.

I thought this video was pretty funny.  I hope Mary hasn't been watching too much of Glenn Beck.