The Good Actor- Just finished

The Good Actor- Just finished watching Ron Silver and Bill Maher debate the war on "Wolf Blitzer". All of Hollywood is not lost.

The worst thing about Maher's late "Politically Incorrect" was that it gave a wide-open forum to, primarily, celebrities to discuss current events. It was generally a throat-clenchingly frustrating exercise, watching (Rush drummer) Neal Peart, Janeane Garofalo, and someone from the Weather Channel squabble with Bill Maher about the issues of the day.

Maher's a sharp guy, albeit wrong about most things (including labelling himself as a "libertarian"). Like most comics, he has good timing - and a way with distracting audiences from lousy logic with the glib, usually ignorant, but catchy one-liner.

But Silver didn't give up a single point. Maher came on with the usual fare - Hussein didn't attack us on 9/11, you know! - but Silver threw it all right back at him.

My favorite line of the segment? Silver: "Robert Frost once said a Liberal is someone who's so open-minded he won't even take his own side in an argument".

Silver's hosting Crossfire tomorrow. I may watch it, for the first time in over a decade.

Concealed Carry Update - While Minnesota's Personal Protection Act has moved to the "backroom machination" phase of the process, Ohio is rapidly vying with us to to be the 34th state to adopt a "Shall Issue" law.

The issues are exactly the opposite of those in MInnesota, of course - Ohio's legislature has the votes in both houses to not only pass the bill, but probably override a veto by liberal Governor Bob Taft. However, the big question is "Will they do it if it comes to that"? It'd expend a lot of political capital - and with their budget battle raging, capital isn't cheap.