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The O.J. sentencing story was all over the networks yesterday (with some lingering afterburn today) and I scrolled around quite a bit trying to find some nugget actually worth discussing. After awhile I gave up; nearly everything that was being discussed was trite, facile, and generally moronic. This Chris Matthews clip is a fairly good example.

Of course, I was probably hampered in my search by the fact that, when it comes to O.J., I monumentally Do. Not. Care. Still, I couldn't help noticing that nowhere in the commentary was there anything discussed that might shed some kind of light on any significant aspect of our daily lives. It's pure cult-of-celebrity nonsense.

Well, there is one thread of silver lining to be had: Perhaps with O.J. put away and out of sight, the media will finally forget about him and move on to other, more worthwhile, news stories to obsess about.

But I doubt it. Indeed, I look forward (well, not really) to the announcement that O.J.'s life in prison will be the subject of a new reality show on Fox: "The Longest Yard."

Carl Hiaasen on 60 Minutes: Florida and terrorists:

"You know, after the second O.J. Simpson trial, I see his lawyer being interviewed on the steps of court house," says Hiaasen. "You know, 'Mr. Simpson may have to leave California. He doesn't have this kind of money, and he may have to leave California.' And I turned to my wife and I said, 'He's coming to Florida.' And here he is, you know." Unfortunately, the craziness of Florida provides a certain anonymity to all sorts of wackos, even terrorists. And if the place wasn’t so dysfunctional, Hiaasen says maybe something could have been done about that.

"I was watching in the living room, and they started showing the pictures of Mohammed Atta and then the others in those photographs," says Hiaasen. "I said, 'I swear to God, those are Florida driver's licenses photographs.' At least nine of them, I believe, and possibly more had lived and worked and trained for their suicide mission here in Florida."

"And I always tell people, 'You think that was an accident? Where's the one place in the United States where the bar of bad behavior is so high that nobody's gonna notice these guys?'" adds Hiaasen. "Nobody's gonna think twice when they walk into a flight school and say, 'I'd like to get on a 757 simulator, but I don't need the part about where you land it. Just teach me how to fly it around.' And pay it in cash, and they say, 'Oh, right this way, Mr. Atta. Sit over here.'

"You know, the one guy, he goes to Minneapolis, he goes to Minnesota to learn and he's in jail in about 25 minutes. First I was surprised, and then it all made sense. It all makes sense when you think about it. Why not? Of course."...read on (h/t Russell)

Following up on Josh Marshall's post on Luskin and gold, I've found that Luskin also switched sides in the middle of a case he was representing. In 94-95' Luskin was working for the Laborers’ International Union of North America (LIUNA) against a RICO case. Then he suddenly ( 2.1 ) In February 1995, Luskin switched sides. Luskin went from LIUNA and Arthur A. Coia’s advocate to their prosecutor under “internal reform effort.” It was as if Johnny Cochrane was allowed to take over Marsha Clark’s job and prosecute O.J. Simpson in a quasi-judicial system funded and controlled by O.J. Simpson.

Will he do the same thing to Mr. Rove?

"You can be in the perfect defense and it doesn't matter, he'll make an adjustment, he'll make a move and he'll score. He's the type of athlete that you can't defend. He scares me to death. ”— O.J. Simpson on OU's Adrian Peterson

Simpson to attend first game in 10 years

I'll be in the stands cheering as loud as anybody for USC," Simpson told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Monday. His attorney, Yale Galanter, monitored the telephone call and wouldn't allow Simpson to say where he'll be sitting inside the stadium.

These attacks on the legitimacy of the "Bush Docs" remind me of the Dream Team that represented O.J. Simpson in the trial of the century. You know the man is guilty so attack the messenger. The documents must have been planted like that glove. If we can only get Dan Rather to use the N-word we might have a chance. We don't need a Judge Ito, because we have Fox News Channel, Rush Limbaugh and the entire right wing talk Radio Empire to make rulings for us. I'm sure by the end of the week, someone will uncover the actual typewriter that Dan Rather used to type the memo's himself!