My Sick Mind

The new season of "The Apprentice" started tonight. I managed to sit through the first 3 minutes after "The Office" ended, which is 3 more minutes than I've ever seen. This season, Donald told us that "I've had enough" of the economic downturn and he is supposedly determined to do something about it. So, he has decided to take 16 out-of-work professionals and pit them against one another in his little TV show contest, with the promise of making one of them his apprentice. Hence the name. But, as is the habit around there, Donald is going to have to fire 15 of them in order to get to the eventual winner. Isn't that defeating the purpose of doing something about the unemployment problem? Waving a carrot in front of 16 people for 12 weeks and firing all but one doesn't seem to me to be doing very much about the growing unemployment problem. But it's probably good TV, and that's all that matters. Meanwhile, new census numbers are ou...

In stark contrast to yesterday's post about walruses in Alaska, we now turn our attention to foxes in New York. Inés Sainz of the Mexican television network TV Azteca, claimed that she was harassed by players and coaches in practice and in the team's locker room last Saturday. From the New York Times: The New York Post reported that during drills, Dennis Thurman, the team's defensive backs coach, purposely overthrew passes that landed near Sainz on the sideline. The Post also reported that linebacker Jason Taylor volunteered to join the defensive backs. Players also reportedly made sexually suggestive comments in the locker room after practice. "I die of embarrassment!" Sainz wrote in Spanish on her Twitter account . "I am in the locker room of the Jets waiting for Mark Sanchez while trying not to look to anywhere! " Really. She die of embarrassment. Tweeting from the great beyond. You'd think a reporter would be more careful with the language. B...

W ASHINGTON – Tens of thousands of walruses have come ashore in northwest Alaska because the sea ice they normally rest on h as melted. Federal scientists say this massive move to shore by walruses is unusual in the United States. But it has happened at least twice before, in 2007 and 2009. In those years Arctic sea ice also was at or near record low levels. The population of walruses stretches "for one mile or more. This is just packed shoulder-to-shoulder," U.S. Geological Survey biologist Anthony Fischbach said in a telephone interview from Alaska. He estimated their number at tens of thousands. Walruses have shoulders? If your name is Fishback, does destiny require you become a marine biologist? Anyway, check your local park, because walruses might be moving in soon. It's beyond me how anyone can contest the concept of global warming. All you have to do is check the polar regions. During normal summers, the males go off to play in the Bering Sea, while the females ra...