News from Hollywood Reporter & Washington Post with snide comments by Bubba:

Netflix will pay almost $1 billion to Epix over five years for online-streaming rights for movies from Paramount, Lionsgate and MGM. (HR) Duhh! Did somebody say thair wuz a recession?

President Obama’s remarks Friday and Saturday on a proposed mosque and Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero sparked heated exchanges on the Sunday morning news shows. (WP) Well imagin’at! A heated exchange amongst politicians! An over sumpm at has t’do with religion, which is spose t’be separate frum gummint? Who’d a’thunk it?

While Washington politicians argue over the role of money in federal elections, a growing number of states are starting to grapple with their own challenge: a tide of special-interest money flowing into local judicial races. (WP) Lessee now… could’at mean the politicians’ tills are full so we can now start on the judges, whur one vote means everthang?

Patraeus Says Afghan Stratege On Track— In his first six weeks as the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, Gen. David H. Petraeus has seen insurgent attacks on coalition forces spike to record levels, violence metastasize to previously stable areas, and the country’s president undercut anti-corruption units backed by Washington. (WP) Whut?! That’s whut we call “on track?” Duhh!

We are our bumper stickers. Liberals exhort, “Wage Peace.” Conservatives exclaim, “Vote Democrat, It’s Easier Than Working.” And then thair’s “Inside Every Old Person Is a Young Person Wondering What Happened.” (WP) At about sums it up, don’t it?

It’s like at ole boy Desiderius Erasmus said way back yonder: “Fortune favours the fool.” –In Praise of Folly (1515)