Another Sunday

Except for the weekday 5 o'clock news (where I appeared four days last week), I don't watch much TV news, except, again, on Sunday.

I start, however, with a ridiculous TV commercial for some breakfast cereal shaped like little pillows, covered with sugar. It showed an elementary school student who was suddenly, unexpectedly bright and responsive in class, and the credit was given to the cereal which "improves attention by 20%." I know they are only encouraging us to eat a nutritious breakfast, but, be serious -- a 20% increase in performance? Not 18 or 19 or 21, but 20%. And then there's all that sugar. Nonsense.

I watched FoxNews Sunday and the three P BS news talk shows, and the words "Operation Chaos" were never mentioned. The Democrats seemed pleased with an increase in voter registrations, but the possibility that some of Rush's millions of listeners might have changed parties to vote for Mrs. Bill Clinton never came up. However it happened, we are now being treated to a good look at why no one should vote for either of them.

On Sixty Minutes Antonin Scalia made another of his stunning appearances. Since the recent death of William F. Buckley Jr., he is now the sole greatest American thinker. He is not a politician, but I suspect he would make a fine president. This is probably another example of our missing out on the best person.


PARENTHETICALLY: The media avoiding the issue reminds me of my final encounter with the California Teachers' Association before my resignation. At a representative meeting, the local president had proposed we buy a gift for the retiring personnel director, and we voted "no." At the next meeting, the reading of the minutes made no mention of the vote, and, when I questioned it, the secretary explained, "No such thing happened." If it's embarrassing, avoid it?