As I said before, bloggers are the coolest people, so it makes sense that blogger Michelle Malkin is the nicest pundit I know. Some of the letters she gets are not so nice, though.
I hadn’t heard of the Armstrong Williams controversy until I read RWD’s post on my blog. Michelle has a column on how that controversy will hurt minority conservative pundits. She includes some hate mail to show what she is already subjected to, and has on her blog even more uncensored hate mail (Warning: Contians profanity – hence the “uncensored”).
BTW, I started reading her book In Defense of Internment on the plane ride to Amarillo and got through the first few chapters. It’s certainly a new veiwpoint with lots of historical information I had never heard of.
Whitler describes having to edit the Michael Moore interview on the show he works for, how skilled editing can control what someone perceives, and why the minortity of conservative actors are the ones who hold public office while left-wingers never even run. Also, he has the time of the Michael Moore appearance so you can set your Tivos. Whitler smart. You read.
John Hawkins has gotten an interview with the great mind Victor Davis Hanson for a second time. I really should try to do some more interviews in the future.
Iowahawk teases with comic genius as he tells the noir tale of Inspector Dan Rather searching for the truth.
“My name is Rather. And I’m a dick.”
Anyhoo, since people seemed to like it, I’ll put up Act II of my pilot for Mercenaries tomorrow. Also, I’ll try to catch up with things have something topical to post as well. Later, y’all.

A while back I heard of this contest to write a situation comedy (i.e., sitcom) and be part of a reality show where it is produced. I got some advice on sitcom writing from Bill Whittle (go buy his book – post haste!) and had my drafts looked over by SarahK and RightWingDuck who offered proofreading and some suggestions. I spent hours cutting it down to the size of a half-hour sitcom and doing the proper formatting for a script and then mailed in what I thought was a hilarious entry.
I didn’t even receive a rejection letter.
Since it’s safe to say I didn’t win, I’ll put the script up here as I think it’s funny and there are a few in jokes for my readers. Basically, the story is about four twenty-something characters who become mercenaries in a post-apocalyptic future dominated by two warring factions – the Imperialist United Republic (IUR) and the United Republic of Imperialists (URI). My pitch was, “It’s like Friends… but with guns!”
Yeah, I tried to think of a normal office comedy, but it just wasn’t in me. Even tried the idea of a family comedy about ex-mobsters (“You know the wacky neighbors? I whacked them!”), but it didn’t come together.
Anyhoo, without further ado, here is Act I (it’s three acts as standard for a half-hour show) from the script to my pilot of Mercenaries – with all those hours of formatting undone so it fits as a blog post:

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A pretty apt description of our trip.
Poor Joel.
That’s not quite how things went…
And, no, a corkscrew wasn’t what stabbed me in the ass, but it was right next to thing that did.
BTW, the write of this parody blog is the same guy who guest posts here as Frank J (no period after the ‘J’). You can vote here to guess his indentity.

I need to get that codeword thing up and quickly for allowing people to comment. Where’s a link to that again?

I woke up in a cold sweat this morning having had a nightmare about the trip. Anyway, I’ll leave that to SarahK to document all the mishaps. Well, as bad as things were, at least I had my dual .45s on me. There were a few highlights, though. One was the surprise of seeing FlyingSpaceMonkey driving on the highway next to us holding up a sign. We were laughing so hard we nearly crashed in the tunnel (I keep meaning to blogroll SpaceMonkey, and now that he risked his life to see us I should. Eh, I’ll do it later). The other highlight was having dinner with Maggie Katzen and RTO Trainer. Really, there are no better people than blog people, and we could have talked for hours. Maggie has an account of the meeting that isn’t quite like I remember it.
Now I need to catch up on the news having little internet and T.V. exposure for a while. It seems all bad, with more people dying in Iraq, flooding in CA, more death still from the tsunami, and so many people getting fired from CBS News just to prove how bad the economy is under the Bush administration.
Well, my new kitten who I named Sydney after Sydney Bristow from Alias is home. SarahK’s cat, Minerva, who’s at least twice the size of Sydney, keeps trying to play, but Sydney seems to not understand and there is a lot of hissing and spitting. Hopefully, they’ll get along soon. Here are some pictures of Sydney:

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