Sometimes there ain’t nothing to talk about. For example, the rent is too damn high. Unless you’re in the upper class, there’s no debate and nothing to talk about. But there’s a few more topics that are in the news this week that really shouldn’t be up for much debate or are being focused on for the wrong reasons. For example, Randy Moss was cut for being a food critic but textual intercourse with a team employee is perfectly acceptable. Not liking food? That ain’t to talk about.

World Series
Wait, the World Series has already come and gone? Did anyone notice? Canada seemed to stop caring right around when the Phillies were eliminated and we couldn’t take any credit for Philly’s success because Doc is an ex-Blue Jay. America seemed to care right up until the Yankees were eliminated. Hell, Sunday’s NFL night game had more viewers than Game 4 of the World Series. Game 5 had more viewers than Monday Night Football but that should never have been a question. Baseball has to find a way to fix things so people care about the sport again. There just aren’t any stars that people care about. Maybe a cap so new stars can be called up or spread amongst teams apart from the Yankees and Red Sox so there are name guys on all teams. That’d be better than expanding the playoffs and pushing us farther into November with the proceedings.

White Poppies
The Island Peace Committee on Prince Edward Island have stepped on the wrong toes this week. They’re passing out their own spin on the traditional Remembrance Day poppies and the veterans aren’t happy. These white poppies are promoting peace rather than war. Now, I have no problem with that but the timing of their campaign and their choice of symbol are down right disrespectful. The red poppy is a symbol used to remember the sacrifices that our soldiers made to protect our country. The white poppy is essentially a knock off saying that the soldiers threw down their lives for nothing because we should have worked out our differences at a conference table. I really think that when all hell broke loose at the start of WWI and WWII that people would have been more than willing to sit down and settle their differences in a non-violent manner. The idea of promoting peace isn’t a bad idea. However, in a day and age where we’re on elevated terror alert 24/7, peace just isn’t going to happen because the other side doesn’t believe in giving it a chance. The Island Peace Committee is more than welcome to express their point of view but leave November and the poppy to the veterans who preserved our freedom.

Twitter
The good folks at Twitter have figured out a way to expand their revenue model. First, they were letting companies pay to promote topics onto the Trending Topics list. Now, they’re selling ads in your timeline. I haven’t seen it in action yet but HootSuite users will be the first to see ads pushed into their timelines. As a web, BlackBerry and TweetDeck user, I seem to have dodged the insanity for the first bit. Naturally, most people are pissed about this. I can kinda understand both sides. Someone has to pay for all those goddamn Bieber tweets and Bieber tweeters (or twats, which I believe is the shorthand for “one who tweets and is a Justin Bieber fan”). However, I don’t want to receive random tweets from random twats about random… twits? Is that an applicable word? Anyway, this seems like the worst way possible to handle ads in Twitter. It’s still better than buying gifts and still seeing dozens of ads on your FaceBook profiles.

Proposition 19
Some how, some way, marijuana wasn’t legalized by the voters of the state of California. I fail to understand why voters don’t open their eyes on some of these issues. I can believe it happened, though. They do watch Glenn Beck and Bill O’Reilly and vote Republican and Tea Party. You can’t actually be voting on issues if you’re doing that. If that’s the case, you’re voting based on the fear that you’re force-fed by the Republican biased media. Anyway, Prop 19 was going to legalize the possession of 1 oz of pot, growing pot for personal use and allow licensed sale of pot similar to alcohol and tax the sale of marijuana. This would bring in over $1 billion in new tax revenue annually as well as reduce the money spent on law enforcement related to low-level possession violations. It would also serve to effectively cut large drug cartels out of the market because you could go anywhere to buy pot. It was a perfect solution to a problem that should never really existed in the first place. So what does California do when they’re given the chance to exercise common sense? They decide that it’s best to believe a bunch of stereotypes about pot smokers, assume that it’s worse for the children than alcohol and vote Prop 19 down. It’s amazing how the culture of fear that Americans have shoved down their throats has left Americans unable to form any rational opinion when it comes to their elected officials. After all, calling “Obama care” a bad thing? I’m glad the media likes not having universal health care. I say strip every anti-Obama care newsman of his health insurance and see how he like it.

Rent Is Too Damn High
Ain’t nothing to talk about. The rent is too damn high. Jimmy McMillan has a catchy catchphrase for his Rent Is Too Damn High Party. Thanks to the New York gubernatorial debate, Jimmy became a bigger star than the madam who brought down Eliot Spitzer. Like I said above, American’s just won’t go for the common sense message. Jimmy’s platform was a very simple one: Rent is too high and people can’t put food on their tables. Even though I’m a “small c” conservative, I have nothing against rent control, lower taxes, improved living conditions for the lower and middle classes and gay marriage. Sure, his biggest problem probably wasn’t a lack of common sense but problems with a two-party system. People think their votes will only matter if they vote for either the Democratic or Republican candidate. That might have a slight grain of truth to it but look at Alaska where a write-in campaign elected their senator. Jesse “The Body” Ventura also shows that it’s possible to win without being on a big party ticket. There’s still hope for the Rent Is Too Damn High Party and Jimmy McMillan to get their message across. And if worse comes to worse, they can always try branching off to Canada. I’m willing to run for Parliament as the Rent Is Too Damn High candidate.

Silvio Berlusconi
My boy Silvio is back in the news. Not surprisingly, it has to do with his rumoured cavorting with younger women. That Silvio is a sly old dog. Not many heads of state could get away with ploughing their way through parties like the head of Italy. He’s even got a new Italian pop culture term created because of his exploits. A Moroccan belly dancer said she witnessed sexcapades that she referred to as “bunga bunga.” Nobody knows what that means but it’s popped up everywhere from rap songs to sports page headlines. I wish that when I’m over 60 (if my high-cholesterol and high-blood pressure hampered ticker gets me that far) that I have as much bunga bunga as Silvio. And to think I was complaining about old guys and young women hooking up on our last podcast. I guess I have a head of state exception to the rule. If that’s the case, President Clinton also gets a pass from me.

Randy Moss
Let me get this straight: You can sexually harass an employee of your team, allegedly attempt to rape a college co-ed or get involved in a nightclub shooting and not get cut from your team. But if you bad mouth the caterer, then your ass is gone before the coach tells you. I can’t believe that Vikes coach Brad Childress would 1) cut Moss for critiquing a caterer’s work and 2) not tell Moss he was being cut before the media got a hold of the story and blow it out of proportion. I think we can all agree that Moss is a basket case but a hell of a talented player. But when your team is collapsing and you need to shake things up to salvage the season and the coach’s job, Moss becomes a necessary casualty of football. Of course, nobody is asking the important question: What food do they serve in Tennessee?