Home Sweet Home

Well, we've been back a good two weeks but unpacking, getting the house in order, and taking care of sick children have kept blogging off my priority list. Our holiday was great. I hope yours was as well. Not much to blog about, so I'm gonna blog about news. Beware, this might get boring. Yikes, I'm turning into Ben.

Anyway, Ben has got me hooked on a website that compiles news stories: Drudge Report. I have to admit, I'm more likely to click on the 275-Pound Woman Says Hospital Told Her to Use Zoo MRI... link than say the Obama stimulus: Increase likely for low-income elderly... link, but I try to round out my news reading. Anyway, so once in a while, Drudge will put a link to Camille Paglia's column on salon.com and I enjoy reading it. She was writing about Gov. Palin's Katie Couric interview in this column and I especially chuckled at her description of Couric (sorry to any Couric fans).

"And let me take this opportunity to say that of all the innumerable print and broadcast journalists who have interviewed me in the U.S. and abroad since I arrived on the scene nearly 20 years ago, Katie Couric was definitively the stupidest. As a guest on NBC's "Today" show during my 1992 book tour, I was astounded by Couric's small, humorless, agenda-ridden mind, still registered in that pinched, tinny monotone that makes me rush across the room to change stations whenever her banal mini-editorials blare out at 5 p.m. on the CBS radio network. And of course I would never spoil my dinner by tuning into Couric's TV evening news show. That sallow, wizened, drum-tight, cosmetic mummification look is not an appetite enhancer outside of Manhattan or L.A. There's many a moose in Alaska with greater charm and pizazz."

I don't agree with everything Paglia says but I certainly have to agree with her here and she seems fair and open-minded. Or at the very least sarcastic and entertaining. Anyway, sorry if this bored you. I'll try to think of something more interesting for the next post. Like maybe how I've taken up crocheting....hah....not sure if that would be more interesting.