Feds Accuse ‘Miss Cleo’ of Fraud
Ms. Cleo was quoted as saying, “I didn’a commit fraud two three times! Don’t make me take you to school!” – then she charged reporters $4.99 for the soundbyte.

Random Thoughts Olympics Update:
Good sense and public outrage prevail!
IOC awards gold to Canadian pair
The Russian coaches, interviewed after the press conference, were quoted as saying, “Yeah, well…we got our medals first! And they’re shiner!”

I’m personally just glad to see that logic won out in all this. (Although I imagine a healthy dose of international outrage didn’t hurt either.) I saw the competition, and I saw the same replays that the judges had access to. Jamie and David just flat out skated a cleaner performance. I’m no figure skating judge (if I were, I wouldn’t want to be one right now), but I recognize a mistake when I see it and the Russians made a big one, which should have been an .5 deduction. Those are the facts. So congratulations to Jamie and David, eh!

Since others are finding excuses to post pictures of Olympic Babes, I guess now’s as good a time as any for me to post one. I give you US Women’s Bobsleigh driver Jean Racine.

Image: NBCOlympics.com
She and her brakeman, who threatened to lift Jay Leno over her head the other night, go for gold sometime next week.

So today is the Day Which Shall Not Be Named. As per custom, I am dressed head to toe in black, including my black workboots.

Well, this ought to make Darren happy…
‘Enterprise’ Reunites ‘Quantum Leap’ Leads

Stolen without remorse from The Onion

Here’s the nominations for the 2002 Golden Raspberry Foundation Awards, better known as the Razzies. Of particular note: The nominations for Worst On-Screen Couple.

I cancelled and cut up a couple of my credit cards today.

You know what? It felt good.

And now, the Random Thoughts “Salute to Government”!

Today we salute Representative Edward J. Markey, Democrat of Massachusetts, for boiling down the current doings at the Enron hearings into a statement all of America can understand:

“You are employing the Sergeant Schultz defense of `I see nothing, I hear nothing,’ “

SAL-UTE!

For more information, read this: New York Times: Testimony of Enron Executives Is Contradictory

I think I’m coming down off a coffee buzz.

I don’t normally get buzzed from coffee, but the cup I made in my Brew’n’Go this morning was way way too strong, and I think I got a little buzzed. And now, at quarter of six at night, I’m really bushed. So I think I’m coming down from the buzz.

Maybe I’ll go take a nap.