The only good thing about being down for the count for a few days last week was that, for the better part of three days, I didn’t look at any news, politics, or blog sites. I can’t say as I missed it a bit (which makes me wonder why I generally can’t stay away from the shit when I’m feeling halfway alive).

As Bill Maher said in his “new rules” on Friday night, talking about the ‘major’ blogs like Daily Kos, the Internet “enables pompous blowhards to connect with other pompous blowhards in a vast circle jerk of pomposity.” That’s pretty much how I feel these days when I try to struggle through the self-important snippet ramblings of people like Kos and Atrios and their “front page” stand-ins (and most of their “diary” writers and commenters – at least those deigned “important” enough to be “featured”), and why I rarely visit those sites anymore (haven’t really in a while, and have been thinking about taking down the links to their sites here – not that they’d even notice, of course).

Speaking of vast circle jerks of pomposity, it’s Sunday again, and time for another round of the teevee equivalent of the very important blogs.

On Press the Meat, Timmy Potatohead hits us with yet another round of surrogate vs. surrogate (it’s getting to be like a boring version of Mad Magazine; kind of a parody of a parody, except the pompous windbags that take part don’t get that the joke is on them). This week, it’s Obama supporter Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) vs. Clinton supporter Gov. Ed Rendell (D-PA). Then, in honor of Marin Luther King Jr., Timmuh allows black people onto the set, as Tom Brokaw (hey, not all black people; that’d be too scary), Michael Eric Dyson and Andrew Young look back on King, and his crazy notions of peace, economic justice, and racial equality (thank god we stamped them out).

At CBS’s Faze the Nation, Bush booby Bobby Schieffer once again packs a lot into a half hour, with Howard Dean, WaPost National Editor Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Nancy Youssef, Pentagon Correspondent for McClatchy, and CBS News’ Lara Logan (who would make a much better nightly anchor than the twit they have now, but then Logan is an actual reporter).

Fux News Sunday goes “On the Trail” with straight-talkin’ Maverick John McCain, and then Weaselface Wallace chats with John Kerry on General Betrayus Petraeus’ upcoming bullshitting briefing of Congress on Iraq, and Fux’s “power player of the week” is “Newseum’s” Executive Director Joe Urschel. Of course, there will also be the usual fuxheads for your viewing pleasure.

Over at the Goebbels network, George Snufalufagus has l’il Lindsey Graham and Jim Webb, and then George will ask Howard Dean how long this goddamn Democratic nomination thingie is gonna keep going on (you know, if they wanted it all to be over already, why the fuck did they even bother to have primaries after February; I mean, fer chrissakes, can’t we at least get through all the voting, first). Then, at the roundtable, it’s the Nation’s Katrina vanden Heuvel, Republican douche bag (yeah, that’s redundant, I know) Dan Senor, and 2 spokes in the axis of drivel are reunited, with Cokie “the hag” Roberts and George :jerk: Will.

On CNN’s Late Emission, Unterseekommandantkapitän Wolf Blitzer gets us back on the surrogate track, with Jack Murtha (he’s the Clinton one) and Christopher Dodd (he’d be the Obama guy). Plus there’s Dick Durbin, and crazyass cracker John “cornhole” Cornyn from the great state of Texas. Wolfie rounds out the show with Rev. David O’Connell, President of Catholic University. Hey, Dave, your fucking dorms suck! I hope you have to spend a summer sweating to death on one of those narrow vinyl mattresses (you’ll be lucky to pack a single altar boy in there with ya), staring at those crappy cream-colored cinder block walls. Not that I’m bitter, mind you.

Later, on 60 Minutes, Steve Kroft gives airtime to that lying piece of shit, Doug Feith. Lesley Stahl does a story on China’s government-controlled $200-billion sovereign wealth fund. And Bob Simon reports on how NASA is going to send people to the moon again (where the radiation will probably kill them, but, hey, nothing’s perfect).

Then it’s a new episode of Tracy Ullman’s State of the Nation, and everybody’s favorite twisted, perverted, conniving, and downright evil ruling family – no, not the Bush crime family – the Tudors, of course.

Back to work tomorrow, but so what? The birds are chirping in the morning again. Granny gets to spend quality time with her mommy and daddy today, whilst I get to spend quality time with my laundry (and my doggies). I think I win – even without the doggies. Have a good Sunday, y’all.