I watched several of the news shows yesterday and Friday. I guess it was a slow news week. As usual, they all basically talked about the same things. I will give Chris Matthews a thumbs up for having some different folks on with some needed diversity. After a while, I get tired of hearing from Andrea Mitchell, David Brooks, Bob Woodward, and the rest of the mainstream big shot journalists. They all this Washington DC attitude which to me is wearisome. I mean, you need to hear from them once in a while, but let's get some fresh views.

The first discussion point was the Sotomayor nomination for the Supreme Court. Talk about a tempest in a teapot. She's in - lock, stock and barrell. (Unless something comes out about back taxes, an undocumented worker as a housekeeper, or something like that.) Rush Limbaugh can stew in his prunes, but he's not going to change things.

What I worry about is Sotomayor being a Souter in reverse. Souter was nominated by Bush I, and was supposed to be a conservative. However, he has ended up solidly on the "liberal" side of the court. That, however, says more about how far right the center of the court is than how liberal Souter is. Nevertheless, he's been a big disappointment to some conservatives. Could Sotomayor end up being a lot more conservative than anyone thinks? I hope not.

Then they talked about North Korea. Again, a lot of words over nothing. What are we going to do, attack them? They would destroy South Korea and a bunch of Americans quickly if we were to do that. What makes no sense to me is the way the US press tries to describe North Korea as some kind of evil hell hole, where everyone is hungry and no one is doing anything worthwhile. Yet, they are one of the few countries on earth that we have never defeated militarily (join the Seminoles!), and their land mass is but a tiny piece of our continent. Pretty amazing people if you ask me, knowing little about them.

Then GM was talked about. Of course, George Will loves to bemoan the end of free markets. Paul Krugman basically says that the government probably isn't going far enough. Everyone says that the government, now the majority stakeholder, doesn't want to keep GM very long, but it could be a tar baby. We'll see. The big problem is that cars are too expensive - who the hell can afford a new car? Let's deal with that problem.

I would give this week's shows a B for boring.