While I was transfixed in the manly art of shopping for vegetables ( for men: that’s the green stuff that sometimes lurks by your steak and not to be confused with the green beer of St. Pat’s Day), I looked up to see a t.v. ad for the new anchor of CBS News… you know who I mean. How can you escape? It’s like girl’s soccer…. all that puff and no spectators.
Oh, I think Catie will find a few lookers.
After all, the CBS marketing folks are working overtime thinking about such great ways to promote ‘Catie’… as with a T.V. above the produce section? What’s with that? Why not by the beer? Well, I don’t think she has a real following among men… that’s my guess… she reminds me of the line in “Failure to Launch”, “just because you have found a guy who will date/sleep with you more than once….” Like Will Ferrell, Catie is born just to be a ‘bitter side kick.’
I am not saying she’s dumber than the folks she covers, but can she ‘blog’? If you are really lonely, you can sign up for her newsletter… but she may not write it. Former CBS guy Leroy Sievers wrote his… but he is unusually articulate… and Leroy has a very attractive and intelligent sister in California…. erowl!
I guess I always disliked CBS News… especially when they tried to ambush me in 1989 and then proceeded to not replay the interview in the rest of the country (east coast was live) when it didn’t go they way they’d hoped. I guess I just didn’t sound as ‘wacky’ as they had hoped. Fortunately, the Today Show segment was played in some parts of the country and we got the tape.
(As background, they were trying to show the two sides of the ‘marijuana debate’… I said it wasn’t a good thing for kids to do… they appeared to not like my position… so, what side do you think they took?) I’m no Thanksgiving turkey… so I got my head off the chopping block as fast as I could!
Like the New York Times, I believe that CBS has an ax to grind and it always shows. I am sure when Castro bites the big one, they’ll cry giant crocodile tears… but I will be singing a different tune … ‘Cuba Libre!’
Back to short stuff, if Catie’s assension doesn’t float your boat, then who can forget ( we can try) the shirt ripping, eye popping ( nope, not Arnold) athletic achievement in women’s soccer??
I really don’t know what she was saying by taking off his/her shirt? Was she/he saying,” hey, I fooled you all… I am really a man!!”
So, where do we look for real ‘milestones’ in women’s history? All you have to do is look around you and it is happening every day. Women who are showing individual courage in their everyday lives… I do not need to parade the courage I see in the women I know…. it is there.
Women have always made history and whether or not it was ever written down is less important and an entirely different issue. I suspect, expect and hope that the recognition of the real achievements of women will continue…. unless … you know… the burka (or Burqa) thing comes about.
Roger Freberg