Super Bowl drama

Late addition to The Bliss Index™: From the always enjoyable site, The People of WalMart. (From its Super Bowl edition...) - "No matter who wins the Super Bowl today, I would love to see this guy AFTER the game if this is what he is rocking beforehand. Enjoy the game (and commercials) everyone!"

The pre-pre-Super Bowl pre-show is now in its 27th hour.

You know that when the Saints made it, TV producers were just salivating...

"Hey, this'll be great - forget the Bourbon Street, creole cooking and jazz...just give me lots of tear-jerking post-Katrina stuff. Yeah, we'll talk about the devastation, the death...and how an NFL football team will make it all better. We'll play those heartstrings like BB King jamming on a solo. Make sure to add in there how Brad Pitt is somehow involved - I'll bet that'll get some ladies tuning in, too. Can anyone see if there's an Angelina Jolie/Jennifer Anniston angle here, too? Hey, I know we pretty much ignore New Orleans the rest of the year...except when Mardi Gras hits, but this is gold, baby. Gold. It's all about the drama...and celebs. Oh, and there's a football game?"

Gold, baby. Gold.

Who dat?

Falling down

Today's collection of "oops"...


They've fallen and they can't get up...


CNN, which invented the cable news network more than two decades ago, will hit a new competitive low with its prime-time programs in October, finishing fourth – and last – among the cable news networks with the audience that all the networks rely on for their advertising.


Oscar-winner/former Scientology “showpiece” tells his former co-Xenuites, so long.


Legends of the Fall, Part deux?



Why is this man smiling?

Biden's popularity plunges; lower than Cheney's:Vice President Joe Biden's favorable rating has fallen to 42 percent in a new Gallup poll, down from a high of 59 percent just after last year's election. Biden's unfavorable rating in the new poll is 40 percent, up from 29 percent last November. (Eighteen percent of those surveyed say they have no opinion of Biden.)

The ink-on-pulp industry continues its death spiral.

When Massachusetts attorney general Martha Coakley, running for the Democratic nomination to fill Ted Kennedy’s U.S. Senate seat, was asked about her lack of foreign-policy experience during an interview this weekend, she explained/offered her credentials: “I have a sister who lives overseas, and she’s been in England and now lives in the Middle East,” Coakley said, adding she has traveled but declining to say where. Sounds like a governor from Alaska who was taken to task...nah.
(h/t: National Review Online’s “The Corner”)