Oscar

Isn't it amazing how Jennifer Hudson makes Beyonce looks like an awkward ingenue trying to belt it out? Perhaps this harkens a return back to the days when singers actually sang. Although even my sister appreciated Shakira's booty shaking, gotta admire a force of nature.
And wow, the Oscars brought us not one but two gospel choirs in one night. Extraordinary times we live in.

As Ellen said, without the blacks, jews and gays, there would be no Oscars! That was probably one of her better moments of a less than stellar but safe and relatively entertaining host gig. She'll probably get asked back.

Hear hear for royalty (i.e. Forrest, Helen, and Martin Scorcese, in no particular order-- although I cannot comment on The Departed as I haven't seen it). And last but not least, Al Gore. Sorry but we have to gratuituously ask one more time, how different would the world be if he were President?
Would the Taliban still be running Afghanistan? (wait, they've already pretty much reinstated themselves, so that is close to a draw there).
Would we be wasting lives and time and dollars in Iraq? Probably not. Saddam still in power, doing his autocrat thing, schools and sewers and everything in between fully functional. Has no one in the middle east heard of a bloodless coup?
ANd what would we have done with all of those billions of dollars we've spent? Health care reform?