Commercial genius - Surely you've seen the VW ads where people are just driving along, talking to their passengers and then they get blindsided by another car in a realistic looking and sounding crash? Recognizing their success, they did another commercial with two women talking about how unrealistic they think the commercials are. Brilliant!

I also love the Burger King commercial where the "King" lays out a St. Louis wide receiver and then offers him a burger. I don't know how they do that computer substitution, but I can't stop watching it. It's the only one I don't fast forward through on my TIVO. Go to this link and click on the movie reel that says "NFL Holt".

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Paul Rieckhoff has an Op-Ed in the NY Times ("Do Unto Your Enemy") which is mostly the usual B.S. about how if it weren't for Abu Ghraib, our terrorist enemies would be building mulit-million dollar, climate controlled holding cells for the American soldiers they capture. What stunnedme though was the simple suggestion he makes in the opening of his piece - “When an enemy fighter knows he’ll be treated well by United States forces if he is captured, he is more likely to give up.”

Now that to me is common sense. Why the Left hasn't pushed this point is beyond me because it speaks to something believable about making our soldiers' lives easier, not that of the other guys.

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The Texas State Fair is coming! Corny dogs on me! Also known as the Fried Food Capital of the World, new foods at the fair this year include Fried Coke, Fried Pancake Sundaes and Wedgees (Frozen chocolate-covered Wisconsin cheesecake-on-a-stick).

After you go, you can visit WeightWatchers or Overeaters Anonymous.

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From the "You've Got To Be Kidding" file. Dozens of Foreign Pilots Training Illegally at US Flight Schools.

Part of me wonders why any terrorists would need to train here anyway - a plane's a plane - isn't it? Another part of me says whoever is doing this deserves some kind of prize just for having the balls to come over here and do it.