This has been an interesting couple of weeks for endorsements.  First, Caroline Kennedy compares Barak Obama to her father, John F. Kennedy, and then a few days later her uncle, Ted Kennedy, endorsed Obama, as well. That same week, the children of Robert Kennedy endorsed Hillary Clinton.  On the Republican side, it wasn’t all that surprising that the Governator endorsed John McCain, but it is a little surprising that his wife and Kennedy relative, Maria Shriver, is endorsing Barak Obama! Politics makes strange bedfellows indeed.

I have to admit I was not aware that each day — each day! — five US soldiers attempt suicide; before Iraq it was one a day (still a frightening number in my opinion).  What is driving our soldiers to do this?  Normally, I would say suicide is the coward’s way out of a bad situation, but it’s disturbing to think that men and women trained to fight is some terrible conditions would seek this avenue to deal with whatever issues are haunting them.  You’d think this would be a bi-partisan issue for both political parties, but in the haste to gut the government’s ability to assist its citizens there’s not enough money for Veteran Affairs to properly help our soldiers.

There are reports all over the place today of a deal to end the writers strike coming together over the weekend.  That would be nice; not because I give  damn about the Oscars (does anyone care about this year’s nominees?), but because I’m starting to miss some of my favorite shows and don’t want to see others screwed over with short seasons (Lost and Battlestar Galactica are two that come quickly to mind). 

After all that’s happened, I hope the writers end up with a deal that’s worthy of all the crap that’s happened in the last few months.  Since this began, I’ve been more on the writers side because the positions of the AMPTP and the conglomerates they represent have just been beyond greedy and downright cruel.  If they could really get what they want, the union would no longer exist.  Hopefully, the writers won’t end up with a deal they’ll get stuck with and hate for the next 20 years as happened in 1988.

Of course, I guess we shouldn’t get our hopes up.  The Screen Actors Guild contract is up in June and their president, Alan Rosenberg (husband of the very hot Marg Helgenberger), just seems to be chomping at the bit for a strike.  After a three month writers strike, something tells me the actors won’t be so eager to strike unless the AMPTP tries once again to play hardball.