Why, oh Why? - I've

Why, oh Why? - I've been pondering the great immutable questions of life lately:

• Why does Katherine Lanpher have a big job at MPR? She's perhaps the most unlistenable talk show host since Jim Klobuchar. She handles calls badly (endless spaces when she's not cutting people off in mid-sentence), has the shrillest, tinniest voice this side of Babs Carlson (without the nearly-redeeming camp value), and apparently (according to sources inside MPR) believes her own press - the reams of sycophantic, fawning articles in the City Pages and Minneapolis St. Paul Magazine that declare her the Twin Cities' Radio Diva, or the cities' most elegible bachelorette...blah!
• Why do women say they want to meet new people, "make friends", learn new things - and then turn up their noses like Klansmen at the Apollo when they hear you're conservative? As Dershowitz said, "Diversity, to you, is someone in a skirt or with different-colored skin that thinks exactly as you do". Double blah.
• Joe Grushecky is an obscure Pittsburgh special ed teacher/underground rocker, the former leader of the Iron City Houserockers, the greatest band you never heard of. He labors in obscurity, one of America's great rock and rollers. On the other hand, John Mayer is a star. Where is the fairness?
• Why is "Twilight 2000" is out of print, but "Warhammer" still lives on? (Only game geeks need ponder this - although the ramifications of this question affect all of our society, though you may not know it yet).

I'll get right to work on all of these.

Posted by Mitch at August 29, 2002 10:40 AM