August 22, 2006

Charlie's Show Prep #156

• Economists see the merging of Milwaukee and Chicago ("Milago") as years pass. This region will look and have to work in a similar manner to New York City's tri-state (New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut) area.

• I watched a small portion of Spike Lee's Hurricane Katrina documentary When the Levees Broke. Depsite Troy Patterson's positive review. It got turned off when "experts" like Sean Penn and Harry Belafonte showed their mugs. I have better ways to waste my time, thank you.

• From yesterday's Presidential news conference:
  

  I don't think you've ever heard me say, gosh, I'd better change positions because the polls say this or that. I've been here long enough to understand you cannot make good decisions if you're trying to chase a poll. And so the second part of your question is, look, I'm going to do what I think is right, and if people don't like me for it, that's just the way it is.

  
  This is why I love President Bush despite his many flaws. Burke would be proud.
  [via Mario Loyola]

• President Bush approves Plan B to be made available to those over 18 without a prescription. Some right to life groups aren't pleased.

• Ted Thompson gave B.J. Sander the boot.