Neither seen nor heard

Ten days into Chicago and still so far so good. The weather has been miserable but for the first time since I have been here I feel completely comfortable with my surrounding area (within a mile). It is fun to root the Chicago Blackhawks to the NFL semi-finals. With all Minnesota sports teams sucking, I guess I will have to semi-adopt Chicago sports teams (minus the Sox) to cheer for.

1. I only watched bits and pieces of Saturday Night Live on Saturday. Although I am hardly a huge fan of N'Sync or JT's solo career, I have to admit that Justin Timberlake is very funny. I have now seen him host SNL three times and every episode has been fantastic. His Target Girl skit is great. His BeeGees skit is very funny and any kind of digital short he does with Andy Sandberg is hilarious. Please Youtube Saturday's skit "Mother Lover" for proof.

2. Today many of the torture photos were released. Many are visibly disturbing. I have a couple of questions. One, why do they all have to be nude? Two, does anyone still believe these harsh interrogation techniques are not torture? On many of the inmates, you can see visible scars, broken bones, and contusions. What a humiliating time it was under the Bush Administration.

3. The big sports story of the day is that allegedly USC basketball coach Tim Floyd gave OJ Mayo $1000 if he would come to play for the Trojans. One thing that shocks me is how little money these top athletes are bribed for. I totally get it that many of these players came from nothing, but most times when a player is caught accepting bribes it is for somewhere between $500 and $5000. Big whoop! These players will soon be making millions. By the way, almost every athletics program in the country cheats. Only some get caught. Hiring a recruit's Dad to be "assistant coaches", the university paying a recruit's $50,000 to give some speeches at the university? And don't even get me started at how corrupt the AAU circuit is.

4. It is about time that Craigslist dropped their "erotic services" category. They are basically selling prostitution and they know it. This only happened after a man killed a woman who he met through Craigslist. This woman put out an ad on Craigslist saying she would come to any residence and give "Erotic" massages. What do you think that means? I am not saying that she was asking to be killed... However, I am not shocked in one bit. If you look under Craigslist, or at least before today, they had all kinds of prostitution ads, and hook-up ads.

5. www.awkwardfamilyphotos.com

6. As beautiful as Miss California Carrie Prejean is, and she is gorgeous, I would prefer never to hear about her ever again. Is this what America has become when beauty pageant controversies and if the Asian dude from Jon and Kate plus 8 had an affair dominates national news?