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Somebody won on "The Apprentice" last night - no surprise there, it had to happen. Somebody doesn't think Trump is the best role model because of his shady business dealings. I didn't watch the show - every time I tuned to it some poor people sat quitetly in front of Donald Trump while he blathered on with the oddest hairstyle I've ever seen. I guess if you're The Donald, you can't be like other mortals who as they go bald use the tried and true comb-over to accentuate their baldness, no, you have to use the comb-forward to accentuate not just your baldness, but your business acumen as well.

Kevin Spacey got "mugged", sort of, the other day in London. Does this mean he'll become a Tory now? At least he fell for a con that preyed upon his niceness, not his greed.

Well, the other shoe fell here the other day. The first one was when a St. Louisan won the Miss USA title. To balance out, one of our hockey players, Mike Danton (let me point out right away he isn't a native) was arrested in a bizzare murder for hire scheme. He befriended a 19 year old girl who works at the Blues practice facility at the St. Louis Mills Mall. He asked if she knew any hit men (I'm just wondering if she's got a tattoo), and she said she might. I guess I don't travel in the right circles because I can't think of anyone I know, let alone have met, that I think might be a hit man. Well, unfortunately for them but not us the man wasn't a hit man, and he recorded his conversation with Danton, and then called the FBI. Now Danton and his lady friend are both in jail.

My Cub Pack went hiking at the Shaw Arboretum, so let me pass along a timely warning about West Nile Virus. There weren't any mosquitoes around, which was good, but there weren't many leaves on the trees either, and as the temperature went over ninety, their shade was sorely missed.

The official leading indicators are up for March (I suppose if it takes this long to calculate the index, it needs to be leading so that it doesn't lag on arrival). I have my own economic indicator -- I call it the peter indicator. The peter principle states that people are promoted to their level of incompetence in an organization. I have noticed that in good economies, you run into incompents in service industries who've never been promoted; the better the economy, the more incompetents. I ordered pizza from Domino's for my son's birthday party on Sunday -- it took literally 10 minutes to order three pizzas. And yes, the gentleman let me know that he was new. I'd say the economy is getting much better.