Random news musings: 1. I've got to stop checking My Yahoo when watching award shows and other attention-getting events on TV, especially those on time-delay on the West Coast. What's the point in trying to see who won what on the Tony Awards when I can log on and read who won the big awards before they're announced in the West Coast broadcast? Oh, and by the way, the woman who I've been telling everyone I'm in love with? That's Idina Menzel, who won Best Actress in a Musical. 2. I know some people may consider this blasphemy, but I don't really consider Ronald Reagan to have been a great president. All I've been hearing on the news over the past day is how wonderful he was and all he did, and the only question that comes to my mind is... what'd he do? I've heard the expression "he singlehandedly defeated Communism," and that's just not true -- it was an almost-30-year battle that just happened to start ending during his administration because the Soviet Union couldn't afford to keep funding its military budget anymore. Hell, the Berlin Wall, one of the most-recognizable monuments of the Iron Curtain, didn't come down until November 1989, well after Reagan left office. The coup that pretty much toppled the Soviet Union didn't occur until 1991, which was definitely past Reagan's term. Reagan proposed the Strategic Defense Initiative (a.k.a. "Star Wars"), which was one of the most absurd ideas proposed in terms of U.S. defense and never came to fruition anyways. So tell me... what'd he do? 3. Note to Jennifer Lopez: Word to keep in mind: "date." Key phrase: "Pre-marriage relationship." I swear, the woman should be banned from marrying anyone else. She is abusing the institution of marriage and making a mockery of it. The statistics say that 65% of all marriages end in divorce, and I think she's singlehandedly skewing that number up about 40%.