I've decided to try a little experiment. Please place your goggles on now...

As you know, I like the news, or at least like writing about it. But, just as a test, I've decided to take one week off of the news in all forms. I won't read the paper, watch CNN or any news channel, nor check news websites. If any of my friends or family bring up politics in the course of conversation, I will not participate.

Though I think I know the results of the experiment already, we begin Operation NoBlitzer right now...*

*CNN does not endorse the comments nor views of the author.

Tell me that's not the cutest dog you've ever seen.

(That was sarcasm, if you tell me that I will not be happy with you.)

In case you don't recognize that pooch, that's Emma, my dog and favorite all-around girl. She is a rescue from Hurricane Katrina, and despite being incredibly sick with heart-worm disease after the storm, she managed to give birth to three healthy puppies, one of whom was coincidentally adopted by a lady who lives a couple blocks from me.

We get Emma and her son Bernard together every now and then to catch-up, lick each other and sniff-butt. They have an incredible connection that makes it obvious that they recognize and know each other and it's a really great thing to see.

I normally end these with some sort of funny twist, but for some reason I felt like just telling her story. It should be noted, however, that Emma did mention to me that she'd like a lil non-human, male companionship. So, if any of you have a male dog that you would like to set her up with feel free to e-mail me pictures and a history to dave@rubinville.com.

Thank you, and woof, woof...

John Kerry, pictured here with a professional tan and solid dental work, will be endorsing Barack Obama today. While the pundits (who got everything about New Hampshire wrong) are calling this a blow to Hillary Clinton, I personally don't think anyone cares. I just can't picture picture someone in the voting booth going, "Hmm, well John Kerry likes him, so I'll vote for him." Come to think of it I'm pretty sure it won't even help John Kerry vote for Obama.

It's been very political here at Rubinville lately, which is odd considering none of the majot candidates even campaigned here. I guess our 1/2 a delegate isn't worth much these days.

A new study says that 3.1 million young people have abused cough medicine to get high. Can someone e-mail me instructions on how to do this? I'm so old school I use cough medicine for coughing generally, but I do like to stay hip with the trends.

Gotta head to the drug store, I'll be back...

This is gonna be a first in the 5 years of Rubinville. I admit that Jay Leno did a pretty good job interviewing Ron Paul the other night. Jay, has it been your writers screwing you up all these years???



Someone tell me one thing that Paul says in the interview that's not true. Go ahead, I dare ya...

Let the Hillary Mental Breakdown Watch begin...

Some Iranian ships "harassed" three US naval boats in the Strait of Hormuz last night. Tell me Cheney doesn't have an erection right now.

Hillary is getting lots of bad press since the Iowa collapse. According to the Drudge Report, there is even some discussion in her campaign about whether or not to pull-out altogether.

(Insert Bill Clinton pull-out joke here.)

McDonald's just announced that it will be placing "coffee bars" in its 14,000 US stores in an effort to compete with Starbucks. The Big Mac special sauce in a cup of joe doesn't sound too appealing to me, but what do I know?

Now excuse me, I'm off to Burger King to get a Dunkin' Donuts flavored Whopper...

I'm watching CNN's coverage of the Iowa Caucuses as I write this. First off, lemme say that if you stare at Wolf Blitzer's beard for more than three consecutive minutes that you will start tripping. Secondly, I am quite pleased with the results as of this moment (9:28 pm, eastern time). CNN has just announced that Barack Obama has won on the Democratic side, and Mike Huckabeee has won of the Republican side. I like Obama, and I think this country desperately needs some change, which is what he is all about. As for Huckabee, he won't go much further after this so big damn woop, and as a sidebar, never trust anyone that has lost as much weight as he has.

Mitt Romney did poorly despite spending a ton of money and Ron Paul did pretty decently despite not spending a lot. Poor Joe Biden, who I like, didn't do well, though his 1% was a fully percent better than Chris Dodd's 0%. My main man Rudy got only 4%, but we'll see what happens on Super Tuesday next month. (Whoa, I just had one of those moments when you're like, Do I really care about this stuff???)

As I've been writing this I've been flicking between channels and I now can soundly say that in terms of annoying graphics Fox News has the worst, CNN the second worst, and MSNBC the third worst. I guess that would make MSNBC the winner, but all precincts aren't reporting yet and I don't announce winners until they all do.

Hillary is speaking now though it's not clear yet if she came in 2nd or 3rd. What is clear, however, is that Bill won't be getting a blowjob tonight.

That's it for biting political commentary. As all the candidates say, "God bless you, and God bless America!"

Seems to me that if you are going to take the high-road and not release a negative ad, you wouldn't have a press conference where you view that very ad for the press.

Silly Mike Huckabee, tricks are for kids...and Iowa Caucus-goers too, apparently...