A Wednesday Kind of Love

No hate. Just hugs and kisses.

---And we can begin with today's starting pitcher. Number 1. Pope Benedict. Number 1.

---New Era has hit on a new business model. The Vatican.

---Hey, it could be a major league franchise. Probably finish ahead of the Kansas City Royals.

---I like the look. It might be a great way for the Church to bring in new members.

---Giveaway days.

---Who doesn't want a Pope John Paul II bobblehead?

---Ladies Day? All nuns get in free.

---Oldtimers Day?

---"This oldtimer's career spanned over twenty years and his name now adorns a Bronx high school. Let's give a big St. Peter's Basilica welcome to...Cardinal Spellman!"

---Of course, the coaches down in the rookie league will have a field day with all those youngsters.

---"Hey, kid, let me show how to choke up on that bat."

---I could keep going. Just so you know.

---Vendors at Midnight Mass?

---"Get your beads. Get your rosary beads right here!"

---After services, they could do what the Mets and Dodgers do on Sundays. Let kids run the bases.

---Except here they're chased by priests.

---Okay, I'm done.

---Big, big, big props to the city of Bell here in California. Have you heard? The citizens have rebelled against the city council and the huge salaries they have designated for themselves, while severely cutting municipal services.

---Just when you think your voices are never heard...

---Of course, this is just one small town. This needs to happen all over the country.

---And in the House of Representatives.

---And in the Senate.

---And in the White House.

---Let's face it, the feds have effectively stolen our money.

---Social Security? Gone.

---Medicare? Gone.

---The Obama family? Gone. On vacation for most of August.

---When did the First Family become the country of France and close for one month in the summer?

---For her trip to Spain, FLOTUS and her two little chipmunks will be requiring about thirty hotel rooms. At a Ritz Carlton, no less.

---Jeez, what about doubling up? If Mickey Mantle used to have a roommate.

---The economy is in a shambles. And that should mean that those two kids better stay the hell out of those Pringles potato chips in the minibar.

---And, since we're talking about corrupt government...

---Let's hope we are finally saying goodbye to this old weasel, Charlie Rangel, who has been as dirty as dirt for years and is finally getting caught with his hand in the Keebler Cookie jar.

---Please shuffle him off to a porch and let him pick whether he wants the red or the black checkers.

---The poster boy for a crooked politician.

---And, this just in...

---Boy, if I'm going to scrape up some loose change for a hooker, I'd at least want one that's good looking.

---Looking at that young picture of her, I can swear that I remember seeing her in a couple of episodes of "What's Happening?"

---I'm thinking about the time that Oprah gave out a car to every member of her studio audience. And wondering if we can do a sequel to that now.

---"And you get a trick. And you get a trick. And you get a trick. And you get a trick!"

---Why, oh, why must we stand through somebody's audition tape as they sing the National Anthem in a ballpark? One version is more excruciating than the next.

---It should not be sung as if you are constipated.

---It should not take more than five minutes.

---You should not make the anthem sound like it was a number cut during the tryout run of "Evita."

---And then there was Anson "Potsie" Williams last Sunday at Dodger Stadium. He did it right. In less than a minute.

---He sped through the song like his living room curtains were on fire.

---I see where some movie theaters will be running a special version of "Grease," and the audiences will be allowed to sing along with the tunes.

---It's called "Grease - Singalong." And I'm betting some marketing department spent two weeks coming up with the title.

---I wonder if it will be playing in movie multiplexes around the Gulf of Mexico.

---For the record, I don't watch Mad Men. I won't try to watch Mad Men again. I have no real interest in dressing up in old 60s clothes to watch Mad Men. And I am praying for those of you who do.

---I guess that makes me a mad man.

---Len's Believe It or Not: I was in the waiting room at Toyota the other day, getting a cracked tail light fixed and also finally having my recall check. There were two Black women also waiting. For one solid hour, they did nothing but discuss where to buy good fried chicken in Los Angeles.

---'Nuff said.

---Oh, and that mosque they're building two blocks from Ground Zero? Radio host Mark Levin thinks it would be great if they put up a Hooters restaurant next door.

---If not that, how about someplace devoted to Yiddish theater?

---'Nuff said for the last time today.

Dinner last night: Homemade meat loaf, mac & cheese, and peas.

Tomorrow, my love train stops in NYC for a few days.