Random thoughts

A few things on my mind this morning....

- Well, John McCain pretty much officially wrapped up the Republican nomination last night.  No surprises.  Huckabee has dropped out.  Ron Paul hasn't officially dropped out, and may stay in it until convention.  I still wish he would go third party.  Oh well.  It's kinda fun watching the Democrats fighting.  A lot of people think all of this fighting will hurt them when the general election comes around.  Well, they'd be right if anyone in America actually paid attention to this stuff.  By the time November comes around, very few will even remember that Hillary and Obama are at each other's throats like they are right now.  I still hold to my previous statements that Obama will win the nomination and eventually the presidency.

- Memphis is making national news on a weekly basis now.  School shootings like 3 weeks in a row and a massacre of 6 people in a home the other night.  Yep, lots of good things going on in these parts.  I heard someone on the radio asking if the mayor of Memphis should declare a state of emergency because of the crime situation.  News flash - you don't have to declare a state of emergency for there to actually be one.  And we have been in one for a couple of years now.  Declaring one would be admitting something is wrong with this city, which Mayor Herrenton will never do.

- Brett Favre has decided to retire.  Assuming he doesn't change his mind, his retirement marks the end of a great era of football.  It was really cool watching how much he enjoyed playing the game.  He was super talented, yet didn't take himself too seriously.  I'd like to say that's because he was raised in the great state of Mississippi.  :)  I look forward to hearing that accent every week when he becomes a TV analyst.