So the Russian president, Vladimir Putin has been seen around the ‘net without his shirt, cruising through a stream in Siberia. So?

My philosophy is that if you’ve got it, flaunt it. Maybe he was doing a David Hasselhoff gut-suck, but for a 54-year old guy, he looks like he has a pretty good personal trainer.

Th fallout from this spread, both for and against, is expected, and likely planned. Now if we can only have our 2008 presidential candidates pose topless, who would do the best? Hillary Clinton, topless? Maybe contest to narrow things down. Hmmmm….Barack Obama versus Rudy Giuliani; Hillary versus John McCain and John Edwards against Michael Bloomberg.

Contestants can take off their shirts, give a few poses, and BigJock.com will set up a voting system to see who wins. Granted, it won’t be scientific and probably not too accurate, but it sure would be fun….Edwards looks fit….Obama looks like he needs a few hot pastrami sandwiches to fill out some…Hillary always wears loose-fitting blouses, so you can’t really tell…Rudy has eaten the sandwiches….and I can’t say anything about McCain….war hero, and all….plus I’ve been taught to never speak ill of senior citizens.

Any thoughts or any pictures, please post away!

As I mentioned in my earlier post I attended the Santa Clara County Fair last weekend.

Making my way through the exhibit halls I saw the booths for the San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose Police Department. Each booth had stickers and coloring books for the kids, and job application information for potential recruits.

Just across from the SJPDfolks was a booth selling wallets, purses and other “designer” items from Coach, Gucci, Chanel and LV. Knowing full well a Chanel bag costs several hundreddollars - not $15, I had a pretty good idea it was less than legit.

So, again me being a good citizen, I politely asked one of the uniformed SJPDbooth-jockeys if he realizedhis neighbor was hawking fake goods. He looked over in that direction, giving a response while chuckling, “Ya know, lots of people like that stuff.”

At the next booth, there were two uniformed Santa Clara County Sherrif deputies, that I posed the same query to. Their response…”You’d better call Customs, it’s not our job.”

Maybe they are correct…who cares? Bootleg music, DVD andcomputer software, who does it hurt? Fake autographed sports memorabilia and licensed Sponge Bob stuff. So what.

Hello, Chuck Reed, mayor of San Jose. Your city, your cops, your citizens. Just wanted you to know.

So here I am in my hotel room, 8000 miles from home and I go to log into my AOL account, and there it is: Princess Diana had a love child, and the end result was Prince Harry.

It sure makes good copy, and it probably sold a large amount of tabloids…and it may be true…..except for the fact that Harry is not very attractive compared to his brother. Princess Diana was, in my opinion, one of the most attractive people to ever walk this earth. Grantedshe married Prince Charles, who probably wears blacksocks with his sneakers, and white socks with his black dress shoes, which is whythis is even more perplexing!

She is great looking; William looks like her - great. Charles is a buffoon, and Harry looks like he could be Chuck’s kid. My point is, if Diana was going to have an affair that early when she was in her prime hotness, common sense says she would do it with someone equally attractive, yes?

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American Idol is done….withdrawal begins…sorry, but I can’t get into So You Think You Can Dance….uh-uh.

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