Brain Shuffle, 9/7/08

It's all on shuffle this week. I've been busy ...

-- I do feel bad about giving so much play to the Democratic National Convention and then ignoring the Republicans. I have travelling for business and didn't get to see much of the convetion.

-- I did, however, happen to catch Sarah Palin's speech. I love all a lot of women are coming forward and yapping about how they're going to vote for the McCain-Palin ticket, while conveniently neglecting to mention that they were going to vote for McCain anyway. She may prompt a few more McCain intenders to actually show up on Nov. 4, but I don't see her pulling a lot of middle-of-the-road voters.

-- Also noticed that McCain claimed he will appoint Democrats to his Cabinet. Smart money says he means Joe Lieberman and no one else, but even by my definition of "Democrat" I still have an easier time believing McCain on this claim than on his claim to be a conservative of the Bush mold on economic policy.

-- Get well soon, Carlos Zambrano. And when I say "soon", I mean ASAP.

-- There may be one or two of you out there reading this who knew my late friend, and Daily Illini legend, Jeff Ponczak. You'll be glad to know that he lives on in the panels of Gil Thorpe, one of his great passions.

-- The next thing out of Chad "Johnson" Ocho Cinco's mouth had better be "Look at my Super Bowl ring," or else I'm not paying attention.

-- I kind of missed my window to write an entire post ripping on former Sun-Times sports columnist Jay Mariotti, but here's all you need to know about him: It took him 17 years to figure out the Sun-Times was a sinking ship.