Normally I wouldn’t bore everybody with this, but, since this is first time it’s happened since 2003, I feel obliged to mention that Syracuse has started out the football season at 1-0. It was far from perfect (some pretty poor special teams play – except for a blocked field goal attempt for a touchdown – two botched extra points and three turnovers – two deep in Akron territory that surely left points on the board, and one that gave the Zips the ball on the SU 18 that led to their only points), and the opponent wasn’t exactly a powerhouse (no offense, Kevin), but the offense gained 433 very balanced yards (over 200 rushing and passing), the defense held the Zips to 3 points and 166 yards of total offense, and SU wound up winning 29-3 on the road (plus we took a knee on the one yard line at the end of the game so as not to run up the score), and, well, we’ll take it. It’s good to get a win, and hopefully the first game mistakes will get taken care of before next week – a decidedly more difficult trip to Washington to play the Huskies. Anyhow, on to the boobleheads.

Let’s see, not much of interest on Press the Meat. L’il Lindsey Graham is on for whatever purpose it is he serves, plus Barack Obama’s campaign manager Daivd Plouffe. Then at the roundtable there’s Erin Burnett (whose at least easy on the eyes, if nothing else), Charlie Cook of the National Journal and The Cook Political Report (not so easy on the eyses), the Washington Post’s E.J. Dionne, and the National Review’s Rich Lowry (who has TWAMF written all over him). All-in-all, not worth setting your DVR for.

Then again, Faze the Nation makes Press the Meat seem fascinating, with guests like Laura Tyson, Former Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, Mark Zandi of Moody’s, Gretchen Morgenson, NYT Assistant Business and Financial Editor, CBS’s Nancy Cordes, and Jim VandeHei of Politico.

Things don’t get any more exciting on Fux News Sunday, as Weaselface Wallace hosts St. John McCain and DNC Chair Tim Kaine. There will be the usual fuxheads, of course, plus a little something for all you NASCAR fans out there with this week’s ‘classic’ power player, Dale Earnhardt Jr. Yee hah!

On the Goebbels network, it’s hard to tell, but it looks like Christi Amanpour has Tony Blair :yawn: and a roundtable with George :jerk: Will, Paul Krugman, Mary Jordan and flat head Tom Friedman.

Over at CNN, Fareed Zakaria has the story of William Browder, once the largest foreign investor in Russia, whose money made him a target. Then, despite Britain’s crackdown on radical Islamic activity over the last few years, homegrown jihadis continue to preach their message in the U.K. Plus, Zhang Xin grew up in the slums of Hong Kong and is now worth billions of dollars. Well goodie for her. And, finally, a golf course where the water hazards could be truly deadly. Ooh, scary.

You might note that, yet again this year, there seems to be not a moment devoted to Labor Day or the role that working people have played in making this country great (back when it was still great). Instead, they’re all about Wall Street, which has us rapidly circling the bowl on the way down and out to the sewer.

No new True Blood this week, as we’ll have to wait until next week for the season finale. At least there’s no work tomorrow.

Have a good one.