I guess i should comment on the Blagojevich stuff going on in my home state. Yeah, I watched him today and this weekend on the major media, and honestly I don't blame him for doing it. It's all he has. "The fix is in," as he put it. He's getting fired.

But should he? What kind of standard should be set for removing a duly elected official? Shouldn't it be pretty high? Like, for example, convicted of a crime? Well, at least indicted...geez. I stilli think that the bigger story isn't being told here. Blagojevich is trying to portray it as he, the knight on the white horse who was protecting the lil' people by taking on big, brutal, power hungry legislature who is being driven by the greedy corporations.

Believe me, there's a lot more to i this than what meets the eye. You can't believe the legislature and you can't believe Blagojevich. To me, what this shows is just how sick our state government has become. And it's a shame, because it's a large government - a government that spends lots and lots of our money. I've always thought it was very ironic that state open government laws in Illinois, for the most part, were less open than similar federal laws. Yet, the state government is supposed to be closer to the people and therefore more accessible. And, even adding to that is that we live in one of the bluest of blue states.

So how is this happening? A governor who isn't even indicted is getting impeached? The Lt. Gov. who is going to become governor was one of the lead people going to the media and saying that the Governor should be impeached? And it isn't even coming from the other party - it's coming from Democrats. It's amazing to me, and I just know that the real story behind this is a story of raw political power being exercised in a most unusual way for some end. What that end really is will make a great story.