I’ve never been a regular viewer of 60 Minutes, for a variety of reasons, most of them involving laziness. However, if you haven’t heard the buzz going around the internet, and you didn’t see the show itself Sunday, then I must say that Andy Rooney is now my hero. Snopes.com has a nice overview , as they are want to do. Personally, although he obviously has a few problems dealing with reality and always has,

Mel Gibson is still a great actor and has been in some of my favourite movies. Anything that ever happens on the 700 club is complete ignorant bullshit, though. I suppose if I ever get rich I’ll go on public access with the 800 club, where me and nine other people will harp endlessly on the glories of socks, and how they speak to us. One told me that the Soviet Union would rise again, in British Columbia, somewhere around 3450. I certainly don’t want to be here to see THAT happen.