Today’s video of the day is “Long Distance Girlfriend,” by Heavy D. The song is from his new album, which is reggae not hip-hop. Thoughts?

Can the governor finesse Burris into the hot seat?

A few weeks ago I received a phone call from two semi-drunken friends who were at a bar on the East Coast. They demanded I write about the idiot formerly known as Gov. Rod Blagojevich. I promised to do so, but deep down I probably wanted the whole shameful situation to go away. As an Illinois native, I had always held, not necessarily convincingly, that there were states like Louisiana and Rhode Island that were far more corrupt than Illinois.

But I knew that Illinois politics was corrupt to its soul. A very close, older relative of mine worked for the state in the mid-1960s in a powerful appointed position that paid relatively well (about $65,000 today). The politicians who had “served” in the job before him had taken home approximately half a million dollars or more from corruption in addition to their salary. The problem was that my relative did not take an illegal dollar and was therefore deemed too untrustworthy for senior positions in state politics.

So I wasn’t surprised by Blago. I was surprised by his surpassing stupidity. Even still, I never did get around to writing my Blago piece for The Root and was resigned to moving on to another topic.

That was until last week. When I saw the wire story online, I startled everyone in the house as I literally screamed “NO HE DIDN’T!” Blago’s announcement that he was appointing former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris, an African American, to serve the remainder of Obama’s term in the U.S. Senate was a travesty with problematic implications on multiple fronts. I normally do not swear in these pieces, but the best way to characterize Blago’s action is as a giant “F**k all of y’all” to his numerous detractors inside and outside of government.

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Testosterone Patch Revives Female Sex Drive

A study published in The New England Journal Of Medicine says that postmenopausal women experience an increase in libido with a testosterone patch. What do you think?

Mike Vinton,
Line Cook
“I’m skeptical. Does this really work better than half a glass of white zinfandel and a Robert Redford movie?”

Margaret Lee,
Systems Analyst
“Testosterone will make me into a woman again? I thought this sweater with embroidered cats would.”

Bobby Hirt,
Cabinet Maker
“Why all this attention on women’s sex drives? When will they come up with a pill that allows me to achieve and sustain an erection?”

Today’s photo of the day shows –who else?– the Philadelphia Eagles. This seems to be the year of Philadephia sports, no?

Today’s video of the day is “Fugeela” from the The Fugees. Ahhh, the good ol’ days. Does it get any better than this?