Hello...Pleased to meet you! Renewing interest once again in the age old argument of "Life" between religious leaders and scientists. The science community has brought something new to the table with the discovery of a skull from a small child in Etheopia believed to be nearly 3.5 million years old! If this is true, this would make the skull already named "Selam" the oldest human to have walked the planet. Wow! Ain't that neat? Now what do we do with this thing? One thing that has already been done is speculation on what this girl looked like, what she ate, how she walked and how she communicated with the other humanids of the time. They say that Selam was half ape and half human with arms as long as her legs however, stood upright and climbed trees for berries and other vegetation to dine on. Isn't that amazing? You can get all this information just from someone's skull! They also found an old Starbuck's coffee cup buried next to her which I guess even 3.5 million years ago proved that too many double lattes will eventually kill you. The Archeologist in the above photo proudly displays the skull of what he believes is his long lost relative. So, I ask again, this team has spent over 30 years digging with spoons and dusting with toothbrushes, they found it, so now what? Take the DNA and clone another Selam? Stick it in a museum to collect dust? Sell it on eBay? That's probably the best thing to do. I'm sure that casino that snatches up grilled cheese sandwiches, potato chips, and tree limbs with images of Jesus will find room in their museum for Selam. Otherwise, the happy man above will be stuck with just another Halloween decoration.
- A Crappy Winter I think that's what the new CW Network stands for. The line "Haven't I seen you someplace before?" isn't just something you say to the nice looking woman at the Bennigan's bar while waiting for a table...nope. We HAVE seen you before! After a few months of hype and fanfare, the CW Network made it's big bang on Monday however, was more like a wet firecracker that never popped. Here's an idea... let's start a new TV Network and then build it up for a few months, and then for the first week of it's debut we'll play reruns from last season and in a few weeks when we get you up to speed on all of last season's "cliffhangers" like Gilmore Girls, Reba, and Everybody Hates Chris that never actually had a "cliffhanger", then we'll get around to playing the new stuff. The best thing that could happen in this situation is all the Cubs, Sox, and Bulls games that are going to get in the way of their silly shows and force them to the wee hours of the morning. Sorry CW, you combined two forces to win a World Series, but just like The Cubs, you're going to finish in last place. It's Deja Vu all over again!
- Did I Just Quit, or Was I fired, OR Was I only dreaming? That's what just about every cast member of Saturday Night Live is wondering as we head into this weekend. As is normally the case with a new season, the cast would have already been hard at work getting ready for next week. This time however, budget cuts by NBC have already let the axe drop on six people who still have no clue what happened. The only person that had something to say to The Chicago Sun-Times was ousted comedian Horatio Sanz who was at a loss to explain what happened other than to say that both parties involved mutually agreed to part ways and he's already moving ahead with other projects of his own. Tina Fey was one of those who managed the duties of "The Weekend Update" mock newscast. She announced her departure last year to work on another NBC show. Normally, the pieces of the puzzle would have already been in place with the vacancies already filled. In this case, Lorne Michaels suggests that "leaner is better" for this year and has even hinted that there won't be anymore guest appearances by "extras". This isn't exactly good news for the show itself where last season reduced the number of shows by around 4 for the year. Meanwhile, nobody knows what will happen next. They'll just have to wait by the phone.
