2.  If Spiderman folds on Broadway, it proves the obvious.  Broadway is not Hollywood.  Leave the special effects to the cameras and computers.  Can't be done live.

3.  Guess who will run and probably win a special election for West Virginia governor or the 2012 general election race?  Carte Goodwin.

In keeping with the above, I think "Dancing with the Stars" should be a radio show.

Along the same lines, I find it truly amazing that people actually listen to car races on the radio.

When WVU starts to have its every four years run at the top ten and a possible national championship (could be next year), a guy like Bill Stewart is going to prove invaluable.  He won't freak out and get everyone tied up in knots like Rich Rod did.  He won't throw any players under the bus.  He'll just get the job done.  

Maybe logic has nothing to do with anything, but if you don't go through the new "nude image" scanners then you are subjected to the full body pat down search.  OK.  Now for years we had no body scanners other than metal detectors and many airports still don't have the new scanners.  So if there is no body scanner available then you don't need a pat down search?  But if one is available and you refuse then you get frisked?  In other words, why weren't the pat down searches necessary before the government deployed the full body scanners?

To me what this year shows is how small the difference between a number one team and a team ranked 25 really is.  A play here, a fumble there.  In the great scheme of things there are probably only two kinds of college football teams - those that win more games than they lose and those that lose more than they win.

Really now, college football is about entertainment and playing a game.  It is not about life and death.  Nobody likes to lose but without losers there would be no winners.  Does that make any sense?

Now the question is whether we should have an election for governor or should Earl Ray finish out Joe's term and then everyone can vote in 2012.  Considering the fact that a special election for governor would cost somewhere between six and ten million dollars, there is good reason to say no.  We just can't afford all that money (not to mention the time and energy devoted to running as opposed to governing). 

2.  On a national front, are we witnessing the agonizing death throes of the two party system?  It appears that registered independents now equal registered Democrats or Republicans.  The Republican gains appear to be because of dissatisfaction with some Democrats not enchantment or necessarily support for Republicans.  I anticipate a third party or independent candidate for the White House in 2012 or 2016 and the appearance of a third yet small national party garnering around 10 or 15 percent of the vote.

3.  Why does no one bemoan the low interest rates in terms of how that affects those on fixed incomes primarily the elderly?  For the retired person who relies on earnings from his or her savings, the last two years have been basically a "no return" environment on bank CD's, savings account and similar no risk investments that folks usually make. 

1.  Name a sport where the better you are the more you play and the less your opponent plays?

2.  Name two sports where the better you are the less you play and the more your opponent plays?

1.  Pool/billiards

2.  Golf and bowling

In the old days, we pulled into the gas station, they filled up the tank, washed the windshield, checked the oil and when we paid about twenty cents per gallon we got Green Stamps or actual gifties.  Now we pull into the gas station, we pump the gas, we clean the windshield and check the oil, pay $2.50 per gallon and get no freebies!

In the old days, you could buy a plane ticket at the counter in the airport and you could have a reservation in case your plans changed.  Now you pay separately to check your luggage, you can't make a reservation and good luck walking into an airport and buying a ticket.  The planes also had pillows, blankets and magazines.  I won't even mention security.

The big question is whether the players felt lucky after the Marshall win or felt proud?  My guess is they felt proud.  That means that even though the Mountaineer Nation  is still shell shocked, the truth is that what happened last night on nationwide TV could be the start of something really big.

OK, I'll go ahead and say it.  Boise State wins all its games.  So does WVU.  All the top 10 teams rack up at least one loss.  What happens? The followers of college football have an absolute fit but the national championship game is WVU vs. Boise State.

Oh yeah.

Number Four:  The shootout between Doc Holiday (Val Kilmer) and Johnny Ringo in "Wyatt Earp."

Number Three:  The football sequence in "Remember the Titans" where bad penalties are called, the defensive coach calls for total blitz all night then tells Boone (the coach) to run up the score and "leave no doubt."

Number Two:  The final dance sequence in "Flashdance" where Alex gets into the Pittsburgh dance company.

Number One:  The "getting in shape" sequence from "Rocky" which ends with Stallone dancing with his arms up on the top of the steps.

Now, ten or was it twelve percent of the registered voters even showed up to vote !!

The PEOPLE has spoken.  Well, NINETY PERCENT of them didn't but what the heck, it only cost a couple of million.

Save us from ourselves and other things that go bump in the night!

Right now we have Noel Devine.  End of sentence.  When we had Pat White, Steve Slaton and Owen Schmidt...well, we all saw what happened.

So for now we are in the 20 to 30 area.  If another star or two comes forth, well, see above.

Good luck, 'eers.