Thursday, July 11, 2002

Arise and March, If You Can: Medical news this week is enough to send (mostly women) screaming into the street or at least to their doctors' offices with machete in hand. Monday the government halted a huge survey of women who take hormone replacement because eight out of the thousands surveyed got breast cancer. Women on HRT were told to stop taking the pills and call their doctors. Now this: Those painful and expensive knee operations you had for osteoarthritis were all a phony-baloney-sham-money-grubbing-sham. Yeah, sure, call your doctor. He knows everything.

Rethinking The Splendid Popsicle: The court has stepped in to decide what should be done with the remains of Ted Williams, the sports world's "Splendid Splinter" after his bad-news son thought it would be cool to ice his dad. With kids like this we hope he rethought his will.

Sauce For The Goose: Not to put too fine a point on it, but Deborah Orin in the NYPost suggests Little Tommy Daschle should be more aware of his own family ties to big biz before jumping ugly with W.

See 'Ya Later Instigator: While the tone of this NYTimes piece is a touch whiny, the thrust is not. We have deported 1, 200 Arab and Asian men who were in this country illegally since 9/11. Those from the same countries got to go home on the same plane. Now that's a nice gesture.

Let's Follow Up On This: The story from yesterday concerning a "secretive" group of democrats who are behind the sophomoric ad that says W is "sly as a fox" for talking down his connection to Harken Energy is said to be masterminded by the man his own wife calls "Serpent Head." Yet, James Carville staunchly denied any association with such a group on his unwatchable CNN show. This needs a reality check.

Sleaze Hit of the Day: Neal Travis reports that the odious O. J. has made a short porno flick starring himself and two white women. It's so reassuring to know he has found work he's capable of handling.

-Your Rarely-Shocked LComStaff