The Menendez boys are doing hard time. The JonBenet case is going nowhere faster than Amtrak's bullet train.
Hurricane season is over.
And Jesse Ventura's love affair with The Donald is getting older than a pro wrestler in support hose. We're so starved that we actually were riveted by a trade meeting in Seattle. As it turned out, the World Trade Organization show wasn't the Chicago Democratic Convention of 1968, but, hey, this generation of spoiled white kids is just getting the hang of street protest as they cast about for something to rail against. Certainly, there wasn't what you'd call unity of purpose in Seattle, but that made what passed for days of rage even more engrossing. Nothing like hooded anarchists and guys dressed up like turtles to get the juices flowing.