Happy 2006!

Rats - Anderson Cooper is not spending most of his Times Square coverage with drag queens, although Ed Lavendera was down talking with a few. OK, OK. It's not that I have a particular affinity - or distaste, for that matter - towards drag queens, but it's just nice to know CNN can (albeit unintentionally) really piss off the right wing nut quotient with its Ring in the New Year broadcast. Last year, most of 2 or 3 hours was spent with some of the most outrageous and colorful drag queens since J Edgar Hoover last put on a deep violet organza party dress and demanded everyone call him, "Madame Mary".

Anyway, the best to each and everyone of you in 2006. May we finally make progress instead of doing so much wheel spinning, hand wringing, and watching and listening to everyone in the media tell us Bush is such a man.