William K. Wolfrum Chronicles

First it’s Billy Mays, now Sarah Palin. It seems like we’re losing a lot of TV-friendly folks who like to peddle crap.

–WKW

For all the column inches and TV time given to promoting the need to attack Iraq, the beginning of the (sort of) pull out of U.S. troops from Iraq has been met with the resounding sound of crickets from the U.S. media.

–WKW

Is it conspiratorial or skeptical to wonder how Iran protesters had protest signs in English so quickly? Between that and Twitter, it’s like they’ve done a whole version of the conflict with subtitles.

–WKW

After years of “Ahmadinejad is a madman dictator that wants to destroy Israel!” today, the right will move to “You know, the Ayatollahs run everything there anyway. And they want to wipe Israel off the map, too.”

–WKW

That national debate on torture ran out of steam pretty quickly, didn’t it?

–WKW

The Iranian presidential election between Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Mir Hossein Mousavi is one of the biggest international stories going, but with Carrie Prejean, David Letterman and Sarah Palin in the news, many in the U.S. may not even be aware. One thing the election will surely give us? A better time line for when Israel will launch its strike.

–WKW

On Jan. 21, the United States was a progressive, forward-thinking nation. Now it seems the next four years could be dominated by backward-thinking extremists.

–WKW

Why is it that whenever Barack Obama speaks these days, a “rival” steps up to give a rebuttal designed to terrify American citizens? First Dick Cheney, and now Osama bin Laden. Can’t we go back to letting Bobby Jindal give rebuttals to Obama?

–WKW

People always talk badly about North Korea. But I withhold judgment until I hear the opinions of Kim Jong-Il’s daughter.

–WKW

Shorter New York Times: It’s not unethical if Maureen Dowd does it.

–WKW

Watching the New York Times stumble through its final days as a print powerhouse has been somewhat eerie in its similarity to the end of Willie Mays’ career in New York. Both were giants of the game, but the game ultimately passed them by, even though they took a long time to realize it and flailed away with increasing impotence on each swing.

–WKW

If you ever have a report on “Anal sex attitudes of young adults,” my advice is to avoid looking to Google for help. It really skews the data.

–WKW

A headline you will likely not read today: “More than 6 billion non-swine flu sufferers panic over every sniffle.”

–WKW

If there really were angels, they’d have to be placed under the protection of Hate Crimes Legislation. Because people are messed up like that.

–WKW

Dear Democrats - please note how President Barack Obama framed the debate in his speech about corporate tax shelters. See if you can pick up on that a little.

–WKW