News Jog 8/23/07

President Bush's use of the Vietnam analogy as rationale for not precipitously withdrawing from Iraq in a speech before a meeting of the VFW in Missouri yesterday has set the pundit tongues-a-wagging today. Bush's point was a good one. Basically he was saying that no matter what you thought about going into Iraq in the first place, the bloodshed that followed our hasty exit from Vietnam should give everyone, on every side of the debate, pause before condemning the citizens of Iraq to the same sort of killing fields simply because we no longer want to shoulder the responsibility of keeping it from happening. How's that for a run-on sentence?

If you need evidence that the Prez is right on this one just check out this story from Iraq: Al Qaeda Abducts Iraqi Women and Children

The Pentagon is pissing off everyone with the recent announcement that they will only be delivering about half as many mine-proof vehicles to Iraq as they had previously announced.

Russia has been very aggressive lately. They seem to be itching for some kind of fight with the West. Now they're accusing Georgians of hallucinating about violations of their airspace by Russian aircraft.

Every four years we have a presidential contest in this country. Every four years new candidates emerge talking about change and wasting valuable time trying to court the young, hip vote. And every four years those candidates are let down when the hoped for slacker vote doesn't materialize. This season is filled with idiotic talk about how the internet is changing things. It's not, not yet anyway. But that didn't keep the Dems from participating in a completely bizarre YouTube/CNN debate recently and it hasn't kept many Dems and Repubs from getting involved with the latest silliness- the MTV/MySpace candidate dialogues. When will these political operatives realize that hipsters are not a reliable vote? They talk a good game throughout the election season but if just one keg or potential make-out session crops up on election day- they never make it to the polls. Interestingly a lot of young people did help in the last presidential election. But they helped George W. Bush to victory. It turns out that conservative and evangelical youth actually take the time to vote. If the Jog were still 20 it would rather be drinking and whoring than voting. God save its soul.

But it turns out you don't have to be young to feel that way. According to a new medical report old people have more sex than young people think they do. Which is fine but in reading between the lines of this article one's left with the feeling that elderly sex just ain't that great. For his part, your erstwhile editor has let his wife know that once we reach 60 we're done.

The owner of the Crandall Canyon Mine in Utah says they will dig one more hole to search for survivors and then give up and close down the mine. This has family members openly speculating that there might be something the owner doesn't want investigators to find out about the working condition of the mine. It's hard to investigate if the mine is shut down.

Here's a story about a university that had to payoff the parents of a student who died because he was so drunk he didn't know where he was.

The NAACP is requesting that the NFL not punish Michael Vick.

Meanwhile, if Michael is looking for a wife may we nominate rapper Foxy Brown. A celebrity every bit as arrogant and vapid as Vick himself:

Eli Manning has ben quiet for a long time. Taking huge dollops of NYC criticism for his performance as Giants quarterback in relative silence. But Eli got pissed after Tiki Barber referred to him as a weak leader. The Jog has liked Eli since this interview just after he was drafted to the NFL.

The Jog isn't much of a golfer and is no expert on golf. But what good is a golf playoff system that allows Tiger Woods the luxury of missing the first round?

Is the Barry Bond's home-run record setting ball tainted, or will it sell?

Here's a surprise. Losing weight is good for you. It turns out that those gastric bypass operations that pinch off the stomach help once morbidly obese people to all-around better health. All the Jog had to do was witness the Star Jones turnaround. She may still be annoying and fun to hate but you gotta give the lady her props. Here is Star before the surgery. And here she is after the surgery.

Apparently, songs about summer aren't as popular as they used to be.

Here's the most cringe inducing headline of the day:Woman Sets Fire To Ex-Husband's Penis!

Google is upping the ante. On the heels of the success of Google Earth they have now introduced Google Sky. You can now get up close and personal with 200 million galaxies. Here's how it works.

The Jog has believed for some time that it won't be long before one of these reality shows leads to some sort of murder and mayhem. Maybe we're inching closer to that day: Controversy Grows Over 'Kid Nation'

The iPhone is still selling well but needs more features.

Sony's doing everything they can to make Playstation relevant again. The PSP will soon have new gizmos and the PS3 will soon be able to tape digital TV.

Some recently discovered really old diamonds are changing theories about the early formation of planet earth.

Some recently discovered ape fossils are changing details about the evolution of humankind on planet earth.

And finally:
The latest dispatch from Britney's last days on planet earth.

There's plenty more News,
but no more News Jog.
We're done.