I stayed up late to watch the Academy Awards. The host, a comedian, totally bombed. He won't be back next year. I liked Billy Crystal. He could keep an audience.

By the time the local news came on after the show, it was past 12:30 a.m. The bed felt good.

This winter has been an onslaught of many storms and light snowfalls. We have also had ice, sleet, lots of rain and some bitter chills. I predict an early Spring. I think this winter has just about spent itself. It snows an inch or two or three about every three days.

There is only one reason why Nader is running again. He is looking for a payoff. Somebody write the frigger a big check and send him off to a nice green place where everybody recycles old phonies who like the publicity effect of running for office with .03 percent of the vote.

Nader never did us any favors. He is living on his "laurels" for attacking an old automobile (the Corvair) as being unsafe. Hey! ALL cars in the early 1960s were unsafe!

I did own a 1966 Corvair. I put over 200,000 miles on it and it still ran well. The rubber seals were all shot and the heater stopped working four years before I sold it. I still got $100 for it in trade-in value. Two years later I saw it on a street. A guy wearing a straw pimp hat was driving it. It smoked and it sounded bad, but it still ran.

Ralph Nader lives in New York City and probably never drove a car. He is the poster boy for the uptown hippy "Green"movement there. The rest of the country considers him a kook. He has never done a damned thing for the environment except create a lot of excess newspaper column inches. At 74 years old, instead of trying to elect John McCain, Nader should move to The Villages in Florida and play free golf.

The best thing Ralph Nader could do for his countrymen would be to visit a dentist and get his teeth cleaned and fixed.

That's my only rant for this week, the final week of February 2008. Thank you.