Doctors have told me there are wonderful drugs for my short attention span theater, but I have resolutely decided that I have no need for their stinkin' pills. I'll flit and flutter from subject to subject with the ease of Ali's butterfly. At least I will this week. Who knows where my head will be next week. Hell, it'll already be April then. I can't think that far ahead.

The University of New Mexico is spending almost a million bucks a year for a new men's basketball coach. Some students feel this is entirely too much money to spend on sports, that a university should be spending this kind of money on faculty. That college is about learning. About finding some skill one can use to get a good job (and never in a million years get almost a million dollars a year). That a college should not overemphasize and glamorize the sports teams.

One of the guitarists told me a story last week about being in a western civilization "lab" where they were discussing liberals and conservatives and the like. When asked for an example of a modern liberal figure, one girl said Akon. Akon is an R & B singer who has risen to some fame in the last year or so. Why might this man be a liberal? Because some of the things he sings about kinda sound like he might be a liberal was the answer. Anything specifically liberal about what he sings? I don't know...liberal stuff.

Oh yeah, and binge drinking is up among college students. So I'm not sure more money for academics is going to help anyone. We might as well put it into sports entertainment.

Members of the Elite Iranian Republican Guard kidnapped soldiers from the UK in the Persian Gulf a few days ago. When asked why, they said it was because of the way Iranians (Persians) are portrayed in the hit movie 300. And they went after soldiers from the UK because the leader of the Elite Spartan Republican Guard in the movie was clearly Scottish and his wife was British. Eye for an eye and all that.

I just finished an H.G. Wells novel called In the Days of the Comet, which is about how the world would change if a comet hit the Earth and dispersed the active chemical ingredient in magic mushrooms over the entire planet. And then, somehow, the affects of this dispersion changed the atmosphere permanently. Instantly, pure communism and free love reigns. And, while the specifics are not discussed, it seems like they figured out the secret of "clean coal technology" from the trip.

At the end of the novel, a man who is somehow disconnected from the changed Earth is reading the story of how all of this happened. He believed and agreed with everything up until the free love part. Couldn't get behind that at all.

Communism, clean coal, no money, everybody living in harmony and enlightenment. That's not hard to imagine. But free love? That's ludicrous man.

Speaking of clean coal, have you noticed that advertisers have taken to making kids explain complex social and scientific things to dumb adults lately? Y'know, like how those plasma TVs work (mirrors! we're not narcissistic enough, we have mirrors in our TV!), or why and how we should plan for our financial futures, along with the aforementioned clean coal thing. And I think I've figured out why. Because every time our President speaks to the nation (me, he's talking to me), he speaks as if we're all children and don't understand the complexities of what he's trying to explain. Like how, after four years of war, we need to be patient and let the plan work. It should take four to six months. Or maybe six to nine months. But no timeline. That wouldn't be prudent.

Which leads me to my last point, the constant complaint by politicians that other politicians are using "politics" to screw up politics. Just wanted to point out to you fatheads that it's ALL politics. Of course everyone's using politics. That's what it's called.

My computer dictionary defines "politics" this way: the activities associated with the governance of a country or other area, esp. the debate or conflict among individuals or parties having or hoping to achieve power.

And I don't get paid a million dollars a year. The insanity of it all.

Matt Worley thinks if the basketball coach gets a million bucks, he should be able to see UNM football and basketball games for free on his TV.