News and notes

Since going up on Nov. 5, we've managed more than 3,000 hits and 2,000 individual visitors (decent numbers for a start-up), but frankly, haven't come up with enough good choices for our human sacrifice contest. Right now, we'd have to have a Lousiana-style run off between me and George W. Bush (despite my suggestion that he's too obvious), although a couple more votes could push Bob Schrum into contention. Please. Can't we do better?

I'm working on embedding a poll on this issue into my template but Blogger seems to have gotten all wonky about what little mods I've made to the template already and ignores the javascripts I installed for the poll. Suggestions on a fix from you Blog heads out there would be appreciated.

Some of you may be asking who this Al Tustin guy is, whereas others are just sending ninjas out to deal with him (note to Steve: ninjas never wear pink and carry pastrami). Al is kind of like the G. Gordon Liddy of my campaign staff. He was the one who sent the exploding hooker to my opponent (but forgot the Viagra), and attempted to posion him, hoping to turn his copious body hair bright green. Of course, none of the rest of us knew this was happening, so we once found out, we made sure that Al got better drugs and found a better outlet for his creative genius, thus his new weekly column. Free free to comment or nominate your own special birthday of the week.

We may have a DanT sighting shortly, as I noticed a column of his in the draft list, nearly finished. Of course, it may be a bit tear-stained after his Eagles are upset by my newly red-shorn (but not Red State) Giants this afternoon (not to mention how cranky my Donovan McNabb worshipping wife will be), but stay tuned, it should be a good read.

I'll be back with my usual snarky Monday morning stuff.

Football picks

Okay, the Bears let us down on TurkeyDay, but with Obama riding high, I figured they were a lock. Oh well. Today, take G-Men (now, officially doomed) over the Eagles, the Bills over the Seahawks and yes, the Cardinals over the Jets.