Random Musings

First off, forgive the couple of reposts--though not the one for Mom's birthday, because that one will come back every year--but I've been a little under the weather of late. 
Queasy stomach and absolutely no interest in writing anything I'd even want to read, and reading nothing that i would want to talk about.
Even the political world isn't holding my interest these days.
Thankfully, this post basically writes itself.
Hopefully tomorrow will be less queasier and more fresh.

The Jetsons are fifty!
I was never a cartoon nut, and am not really fond of cartoons today. I'm old school: Looney Tunes, The Flintstones and The Jetsons

I can't believe they're fifty!
And I still don’t have a Flying Car or a Robot Maid.

But my car is called a Saturn, so there's that.
And, well Carlos does clean the bathrooms, so………
Still, Spacely Space Sprockets hasn't commented on my resume.

So last week Paul Lyin' Ryan spoke to the AARP’s National Annual Conference in New Orleans and, as he likes to do, he attacked President Obama's Affordable Healthcare Act for taking $716 billion out of Medicare—even though these are the exact same cuts Lyin' Ryan proposed in his own budget.
See, if Ryan wants the cuts, it's good, but if Obama wants the cuts, it's bad. That's how Paul Ryan works. But the audience wasn't playing that day, and began booing when Ryan spoke; some channeled their inner Joe Wilson and shouted "liar" at Ryan, while some told him to "go home" and others simply walked out rather than listen to Paul Ryan spin yet another lie. Like when he said his proposal would offer seniors a voucher, despite previously claiming, “you can call it a voucher” and then claimed, in another lie, that it was similar to the health care program for federal employees.
The man doesn't know the truth. He doesn't speak the truth. He knows it and we know it, but rather than boo him for lying, make a point not to vote for him in either of the two campaigns he's running; send him home to Wisconsin instead of letting him keep his job in DC.
We don't need a liar like Paul Ryan anywhere near the White House.

This season we have two new gay shows on TV, both comedies. One is The New Normal, which does tend to play up stereotypes but has also tackled homophobia and racism in some interesting ways.

The other new show is Partners, which details the relationship between two best friends, one gay and one straight. It was cute, but I felt as though I’d seen it before.

Oh, yeah, it was called Will & Grace. See, this show is kinda what would have happened if Will had decided to be straight—after all he was so-not-gay for years on W&G—and married Grace. And then he and Jack opened up an architecture firm.

Michael Urie is Jack, David Krumholz is Will, and Sophia Bush is Grace. Throw in Brandon Routh as Jack’s dimwitted nurse boyfriend and you have a new show.

Oh, yeah, Partners was created by the two men—one gay, Max Mutchnick, and one straight, David Kohan—and they say it’s based on their relationship. Which was also turned into Will & Grace?

Show of hands, who’s ready for a nice drama about a gay couple? Why is gay always played for laughs? Or tragedy?

Well, well, well, if it isn’t Mitt Romney.

I thought I smelled magic underwear and regret.

It seems that Mittsy’s campaign is $11 million in debt even after it borrowed $20 million in August to pay for expenses before it could tap into general election dollars.

The National Review Online has the story:

"Before the Republican National Convention, Mitt Romney was the Republican nominee in all but name. By law, however, he could only spend primary donations until he officially became nominee. To increase cash flow during the interregnum, the Romney campaign borrowed $20 million."

A senior Romney aide told NRO that they collateralized the debt with $20 million of general election funds already in the campaign's bank account, which is permitted by Federal Election Commission rules.

But, in order to compete with President Obama, the senior aide continues, Mittsy's advisers could not sit on their hands until they were able to use general-election funds. To be fair, $9 million has been paid back. Five million was paid back before the end of August and an additional $4 million has been paid back in September, but when federal election reports are released later this week, they'll show debt of $15 million, but the campaign's actual debt is roughly $11 million.

Mittsy will start fundraising to pay off the remainder.

This is the man who says he can fix the economy. The man who runs his campaign into debt.

I am not a fan of Piers Morgan, who took over for Larry King, after King retired from 200 years in the interview biz. Piers is a bit full of himself, which was evident when his show first started and he announced that Madonna was banned from his show because.....well, he never really explained why.
Maybe it was her fake British accent.
Now Piers has banned another guest from ever appearing on his show--at least until he needs a ratings bumps--and that man is Kesley Grammer. But at least this time Piers gave a reason.
Grammer walked off the set of a planned interview, even before it began, because Piers' people showed a picture of Grammer's ex-wife, Camille, in the opening moments of the show.
See, Kelsey's a douche and never mentions his ex-wife, and mother to two of his children, by name, though he talks about "that person" incessantly.
But i guess seeing her picture sent him over the edge.

After the premiere of Modern Family, I decided to stick around and watch the premier of The Neighbors, the story of a human family who moves into a community where everyone else is an alien. 
And not the kind from south of the border, but the kind from, somewhere, out there.
It was stupid. Eight-and-a-half minutes in.......Click.

Oh yeah, The Emmys.
Jon Cryer? Outstanding Actor? Seriously?
Onstage he said he was stunned, and the entire audience nodded in agreement.
Jon Cryer. Outstanding actor.
Really?
Jessica Lange winning for her role in American Horror Story kinda made up for that mess.