The Florida Masochist

The no class show

Katie Couric interviewed Bill O'Reilly this morning. Note the typo.

This is a week after the same show had a staged scene with a canoe in ankle deep water. Again the MSM shows its true colors. Today won't have any reputation left if it even has one now.

Thank you to Politcal Teen who has the video also.

Actor Brock Peters Dead at 78

Best remembered as the accused Rapist in 1962's To Kill a Mockingbird, he more recently appeared in two Star Trek movies and had the recurring role of Benjamin Sisko's father on Star Trek- Deep Space Nine. Mr. Peters died at home yesterday while surrounded by his family. RIP.

LOS ANGELES - Brock Peters, who began his Hollywood career in the landmark productions of "Carmen Jones" and "Porgy and Bess" and gave a heartbreaking performance as the black man falsely accused of rape in "To Kill a Mockingbird," has died at age 78.

Peters had been receiving chemotherapy after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in January, according to Marilyn Darby, his longtime companion. His condition worsened in recent weeks and he died peacefully in bed Tuesday, surrounded by family, she said.
Peters was born George Fisher on July 2, 1927, in New York. His long film career began in the 1950s; he appeared in "Carmen Jones" (1954) and in "Porgy and Bess" (1959).

In recent years, he played Admiral Cartwright in two "Star Trek" films and appeared in numerous TV shows. Peters was often used for animated characters, including Jomo in 2002's "The Wild Thornberrys Movie."

But he was perhaps best known for portraying accused rapist Tom Robinson, defended by Gregory Peck's Atticus Finch in the 1962 film "To Kill a Mockingbird."

"He was such a dear friend and one of the most lovely human beings I knew in my life," said Mary Badham, who played Jean Louise "Scout" Finch in the film.

Random Golf Comments

See I still follow the sport even from my hospital bed.

*- Congratulations to Phil Mickelson on winning the PGA Championship last weekend.

*- A belated Knucklehead award to CBS and The PGA of America for allowing late tee times that caused the tournament to end on Monday morning. This was bound to happen sooner or later with a major. CBS for knucklehead reasons insist on the Masters and PGA ending at 7 p.m. leaving little wiggle room for either bad weather or a playoff.

*- Tiger Woods didn't stick around for the finish of the 2005 PGA Championship. Instead he flew home to Florida after Sunday's round. Tiger only missed a playoff by two shots.

I'm not going to criticize Tiger, he's an adult and he can do what he wishes with his life. It would have been interesting to see what the PGA would have done if Tiger had made a playoff but that's only speculation.

The closest thing to anything like this happening in recent golf history is the 1999 LPGA Jamie Farr Classic. Karin Koch led by two shots going to the final hole, a birdie Par 5. There Carin made a double bogey setting up a record 6-way playoff. Kelli Kuenhe one of the players who made the playoff had already left the golf course and had to be summoned back via cell phone.

*- Will the 2013 US Open go to The Country Club in Brookline Massachusetts? To you non-golf historians out there, 2013 will mark the 100th anniversary of Francis Ouimet's upset victory in the US Open played at TCC.

Something rarely mentioned about last weekend's PGA Championship was that TCC was originally assigned the 2005 PGA Championship. Then in 2002 the PGA of America reversed itself and assigned the Open to Balutsroll. Neither side is talking much about why this was done, but bad feelings still exist between the PGA and TCC. Note- Remember the 1999 Ryder Cup was played at TCC.

Here is the link to Jim McCabe's Golf World piece on the politics involved with the 2013 US Open bid.

*- Despite double bogeying 18 yesterday, Tiger Woods is tied for the lead with Luke Donald at the NEC Invitational in Akron Ohio. With Vijay Singh, Chris Demarco and Thomas Bjorn one shot back, this could be an exciting tournament this weekend.

*- South Koreans are ruling at the LPGA right now. After the first round, Sung Ah Yim and Young Yang are tied for the lead. One shot back is Soo Yun Kang('The Fashion Model of the Fairways), another shot back is a group including Aree Song. Jeong Jang the defending British Open Champ, and Gloria Park are another shot back.

There are 20 South Korean golfers on the Ladies tour, and right now they are flexing their muscles. Since early June, Jimin Kang, Birdie Kim, Mee na Lee and Jeong Jang have won on tour. All these players getting their first LPGA wins at the same time. If Yang, Kang or Yim won tomorrow they would also be first-time winners.

At the same time the two top South Korean golfers, Grace Park and Se Ri Pak are having off years. The South Korean invasion isn't over yet, more are coming up through the NCAA, USGA girls and Futures tour ranks. More power to them.

John Wilson and The Big(Old?) Story

I was watching Fox News The Big story and they had a segment on about The Thomas Jones story. Jones is a wiccan in Indiana who was ordered by a judge not to raise his son in the same beliefs. There was some kind of divorce/custody settlement.

The thing is, I heard about this a month ago. It sounded like real old news to me, so I googled and yahoo news search. What did I come up with? Stories at least 4 weeks old.

Is John Wilson and Fox News that far behind? Or is it something else. I've seen a news segment on The Big Story once before that was used on a prior occasion. Is it that slow a news day Wilson has to recycle old news? Is he bored? Or am I wrong?

There's a puddle in Port St. Lucie

The evening news for years has been dominated by weather forecasts. Your local news is 30 minutes, minus commercials and promos there is less than 20 minutes and they spend on average talking five minutes about the weather.

Mark Twain people talk about the weather but no one ever does anything about it. Mr. Clemmons didn’t live in the days of television.

We had a thunderstorm warning today in Palm Beach County. It’s May, It’s Florida, It’s summer(It is here compared to most of the country), and late afternoon thunderstorms are the norm.

Half tonight’s news was about the rain. One piece was about a big puddle of water in Port St. Lucie. It’s deep and you better not drive through it they told us. It would help if they said where in Pt. St. Lucie this puddle was. But no they didn’t.

Then there was the shot of the overturned Port-O-Potty.

If its not death and destruction, the news is the weather, American Idol or Michael Jackson. Almost makes you want to watch Gilligan’s Island repeats.