I am about to submerge for the remainder of Mushroom Soup Monday and work on pressing assignments. As usual, I'll be back if something urgent happens.
My "to do" list for this week on newsfromme.com includes a round-up of some of the e-mail I've received about the O.J. Simpson case, some tales from The Battle of the Network Stars and another story or two from my days on Welcome Back, Kotter.
I may or may not write a piece I've been mulling about what it was that always worried me about the Iraq War. Briefly, it was that the people urging us to invade and involved in planning said invasion didn't seem to (a) comprehend the existing situation there involving the Sunnis, the Shi'ites and the Kurds and (b) didn't seem to think that mattered. I didn't understand it either but I wasn't committing American lives and dollars to the effort and promising to reconfigure how that country worked.
Nice to see William Kristol telling us what the U.S. should do about Iraq. Maybe the Sunday news shows can bring Dick Morris on again to explain how Mitt Romney is certain to win in a landslide.
One of these days, I may also write a piece about how Costco seems to be adopting the main business principle behind Trader Joe's. The way it works at Trader Joe's is that I go in and they track what I purchase and take home. And then via some means that I've been unable so far to determine, they find out if I like it or not and if I do, they stop carrying it in their stores. I'm not sure how they do this but they do this and now Costco apparently has the same surveillance equipment.
Okay, if you need me the rest of the day, I'll be hiding behind the soup can…