SUNDAY STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS

LOST has rediscovered the importance of hair as a body temperature regulator . . . going without it is cosmetically honest, but thermodynamically havoc-wreaking . . . is the Mark Foley story sick enough yet, with the number of his GOP Frat brothers who knew but kept quiet increasing dramatically, and the skidmarks of the media like Brit Hume hurriedly rushing to remind people of Democratic sexual escapaders past, as though one justified the other, or that pedophilia and sexual dalliances between adults were the same thing? Is there anyone out there (like LOST) sadly reminded of the 2002 scandal breakage in the Catholic Church, and wondering why ANYBODY would be dumb enough to think that covering up this ichor is a good idea? Then again, it couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of thieves, rogues and crazed partisan Presidential boot lickers, now, could it? The Prez could simply flex his newly bestowed, near plenary powers to declare these pages and the reporters covering the story as giving aid and comfort to the terra-ists, and "Poof" they could just all disappear . . . Never saw a Pennant clinched the way the Padres clinched the NL West today, tune into your local station and watch what happened in the Arizona home half of the 9th . . . Another Bruin victory that was just, frankly not very exciting on Saturday. Not difficult to understand why they're not on TV much . . .anybody else read that article from the LA Times in June, where the climatologists opined that So Cal was stuck with high heat until "October?" Well, we made it, you warped weathermen, Where's our Fall weather?You can send the last two weeks of our heat to the Northwest, LOST is sure they'd appreciate it . . . LOST's very own adopted home town is about to embark on a stupid and ridiculous exercise this week, by forcing rental property owners (anyone owning more than 3 units) to verify the citizenship status of their tenants, or face suspension of their business license. This law is preempted by Federal jurisdiction, and it is unconstitutional on Equal Protection and Due Process grounds as well. It reads like it is neutral, but any prospective tenant with brown skin and the wrong surname will be exposed to it rigorously, while the rest will not; that's textbook discrimination. It will cost the City of Escondido a fortune in legal fees to defend and ultimately lose this case. The City Attorney should offer to resign if the law does not hold up in court. So should the grandstanding pols in the City Council - two of whom are 30 days from the election - if they enact this stupid, ill-conceived ordinance. Every single one of them should offer to underwrite the expenses which will be incurred fighting the litigations which will emasculate this ordinance . . .