Keith Olbermann, BEST PERSON IN THE WORLD! He covers everything I've been complaining about ad nauseum on Facebook, but he says it BRILLIANTLY! Absolutely amazing. If only someone at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue were listening! Clearly they are not. The comment threads on the White House FB page are almost unanymous in their flaming of the bastardized bill, but, again, no one in the WH or senate appears to be reading them.

Finally! Health care reform is being shot to hell, we're playing escalatio (thank you, Tom Lehrer) in Afghanistan, and the future existence of the planet is being debated in Copenhagen, but a libidenous golfer is topping the news feeds night after night after boring night! OK, one mistress was none of our damn bidness & b/w Tiger & his family/ the neighbor whose property he hit/ the muni whose hydrant he hit/ his insurance co./ his agent/ his in-laws .... Nine mistresses is OMG hyper voyeurism, swarm, paparazzi, swarm! But 16 is threatening the future of televised golf as we know it! Nope. Still not worth being above the fold on One.

Fan-freaking-tastic! And a great paralle; to the fake Italian, French and German used by American comics, e.g., on SNL. But, permisso, Adriano Celentano is Italian! If Buzzfeed had him as German, that's another example of American geo-cultural myopia. Europe may be becoming more diverse-- France is full of Italian names, Switzerland is quatrolingual-- but even if the name isn't the tip-off it used to be, his "student" is clearly asking him a question in Italian! Ciao!