Some actuaries might claim that I passed mid-life several years ago. Other people have told me that middle age is always 10 years older than one's current age, which sounds reasonable to me. I've also heard that you're only as old as you feel, which sounded like good advice until it got me busted for walking around campus feeling 18-year-olds. Regardless of which side of mid-life I'm really on, the half-century mark which arrived in May brought that common male menopausal craving to indulge myself with a new turbocharged toy.

Maybe this story should be titled "Did He or Didn't He?" And maybe it shouldn't make a difference anyway. Our "news" media has become so obssessed with feeding us endless trivia about a few people that they declare "newsworthy" while ignoring real issues. And just because a person is a famous entertainer doesn't make his political views any more valid than anyone else's. But it still seems just a little strange that when somebody as well-known and popular as David Letterman endorses (or seems to endorse) a presidential candidate, it gets absolutely no mention from the media.

My raves about Spalding's recently attracted the attention of The Blognut. Judging from the title, one might think The Blognut is slightly nutty about blogs. One would be wrong. The Blognut is a blog about doughnuts, which the author occasionally abbreviates as 'nuts. All doughnuts, all the time.

I didn't have anything thrilling to write about, so I decided to play with the site infrastructure. Now, with some help from the Geeklog gang, this site supports OpenID login. Considering the low level of audience participation here, this is probably more of a learning experience for me than a major benefit for others. But it's here if you want to use it. And if you don't know what it is, don't feel bad, neither did I until recently. But it's cool.

For an old fart like me, I was out a little late for a school night. But this was a momentous occasion. It's not often that I'm on the winning side of a political race. But tonight I helped a friend celebrate his victory in the Democratic primary for governor. It was an interesting race, with some unusual twists. It is often said that politics are the damnedest in Kentucky, and this race proved it. But now it's full speed to November.

Once again, it's the first Saturday in May, when the whole world turns its eyes towards Kentucky for that overly hyped two-minute sprint in Louisvile, aka the Kentucky Derby. Even the Queen of England was here this year (which may or may not be a step up from the usual assortment of Hollywood has-beens who show up in hopes for one last bit of attention from the fawning media who might otherwise have to work for a living). And once again, I paid absolutely no attention to the race because I'm more interested in horses than celebrities, which means the real event to watch was last weekend. And even though I'm not really a fan of overpriced watches that cost more than a good horse, I do think a Rolex watch woud be a nicer prize than a friggin blanket of roses that will wilt in a couple of days. And once again, this entry is going to be just a reference to my Rolex website where I feebly attempt to document this year's event.

Well, despite Speaker Pelosi's insistence that impeachment is "off the table", it's finally on the table, thanks to courageous Congressman Dennis Kucinich. Recently, it has become increasingly obvious that the question of whether he was going to introduce Articles of Impeachment had become a question of when, not if. And that question was finally answered at a news conference. I suppose it's no surprise that he timed his announcement to capture the excitement of the nationwide April 28 impeachment action. But there was one interesting surprise.

With apologies to my distant readers, it's time for another chapter of Kentucky politics. While the rest of the country is dithering about a Presidential election next year, we have a gubernatorial election this year. Maybe smaller stakes, but at least we know who our candidates are, unless some of them drop out or get indicted. As some readers know, I have a friend running in this election. Since politicians are taking advantage of web tools like Myspace to attract the younger voters (or those of us who pretend to be young), I thought Steve might have joined the trend. His campaign manager ran Barack Obama's Senate campaign, so I assume he's up on all the latest buzz.

I thought I was going to avoid this subject, because I didn't think I had anything worthwhile to say (although that doesn't seem to stop a lot of other people). But I can't avoid mentioning how the depth of the tragedy suddenly hit me. Out of idle curiosity, I looked at the Facebook site of one of the victims.

Don't Be Evil. That is Google's corporate slogan. It's a great slogan for a great corporation. At least it was. Recently, I've begun to wonder if Google is forgetting their mantra. And finally, in the last couple of days, I got hit with a one-two punch that made me decide it was time to start using another search engine.