Light Posting Day

I have a paper to get busy on that is due tomorrow so today will be a light posting day.

Redbirds Fun is my newest venture and will be solely dedicated to the St. Louis Cardinals.

Here is your one week warning for your Tivo. Jon Stewart will be hosting the Oscars but that's old news anyway.

Today's Bayh Watch focuses on former Senator and presidential candidate Birch Bayh, the father of current Senator Evan Bayh.

Paul McCartney: Chaos and Creation at Abbey Road debuts at 10 PM on most PBS stations and yes, I plan to watch.

Yes, it is a fear of mine. I want to see a female president eventually but HRC is not the one. It comes down to this: she is too polarizing. Others agree with me on this.

One veteran South Carolina Democratic strategist says she's so well-known — and polarizing — that it's hard to see how she could change any minds.

"We all believe she's wonderful," said Dick Harpootlian, a former South Carolina Democratic Party chairman. "But we also believe that if she's the nominee, it sets up perfectly for the Republicans to win the White House for another four years ... Do we really want to rehash Whitewater and all the stuff we had before?"

Jim Carroll's Notes from Washington take a look at the race down in the second CD of Kentucky.

Kentucky's 2nd District, occupied since 1994 by Rep. Ron Lewis, has been relatively safe Republican territory.

This year, with Democratic state Rep. Mike Weaver of Radcliff, an Army veteran, going after Lewis, the Crystal Ball considers this one of 20 House races worth keeping an eye on -- not in the top 30 yet, but interesting nonetheless.

I'll agree with Sir Paul McCartney on this one.

Iz Fights Fur: Sir Paul McCartney and his wife Heather Mills McCartney have licensed Israel Kamakawiwoole's "Somewhere Over the Rainbow." It will be used on a DVD, part of a campaign to stop the slaughter of 2 million cats and dogs a year for their fur. Stars like Elton John, Phil Collins, George Michael, Brian Wilson, Eddie Murphy, Paul Newman and Bryan Adams have all pledged their support for Mills McCartney's anti-fur campaign.

Rep. Ben Chandler attacks the land-sale policy.

Bush administration proposal to sell up to 309,000 acres of national forest land, including more than 4,500 acres in Kentucky, is a "misguided and short-sighted" example of "irresponsible fiscal policy," U.S. Rep. Ben Chandler says.

It's "frightening," he said, that "our very own Daniel Boone National Forest is at risk of having land parcels sold to the highest bidder for private development."

Alright, it's paper time.