Today's headline

“Surpluses help, but fiscal problems for states goes on.”

I don’t feel like reading the New York Times this morning, although it is the first of the month and I’m allowed to read ten – no, five – articles for free. So I’ll go to Huffington Post and see what they have. Nothing interesting, just liberal diatribes by Marlo Thomas, Jeffrey Toobin, Robin Williams, and of course Arianna Huffington. Not that I disagree with liberal views. It’s the diatribes that I find tiresome.

So I’ll go to CNN. Nope, nothing interesting, just McNews. Same true at Motor Trend, but hey, I love cars. But I just bought a new one and paid off the other one, so we don’t want new cars for years. Bore, bore, bore. The Internet has nothing on it. Just like television. All four hundred fifty-nine channels, nothing to watch.

Why was life more interesting as a little boy? I always had something to watch on the tube, and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette always had some interesting article to read. There were Andy Griffith and I Love Lucy re-runs, Speed Racer cartoons, Fred Flintstone three times a day, and of course Laugh-in. Sock it to me, Tricky Dick. And if we weren’t watching shows, there were the Watergate hearings – Sam Ervin, John Dean (loved Mo Dean’s tied-back blonde hair), Howard Baker, and of course ... Martha Mitchell.

I think if Martha Mitchell had lived, she’d have been the first woman elected president. And the news and TV would’ve been a hell of a lot more interesting, with her candor and humor. Bring back Martha!