Odds and ends, 2/25/08

So Ralph Nader says he's going to run for president as a third-party candidate.

Like anyone cares.

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A lot of Hollywood people got together last night after spending a lot of money on extravagant clothes and congratulated themslves for making movies

Like I care.

As Jeff Foxworthy said, if you have boycotted the Oscars since they snubbed "Smoky and the Bandit" for best picture. . .

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The other day I was wondering whatever happened to Al Gore. He seems to have fallen off the face of the earth now that he has his Oscar, his Emmy and his Nobel Peace Prize.

Now I know why he's in hiding: This is the most brutal winter in the Northern Hemisphere since 1966.

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The Huntington City Council is thinking about increasing the mayor's salary. The mayor is paid about $62,000 to $63,000 a year. The thinking according to some is to attract a higher-quality candidate rather than the types the job attracts now, that is, people who have fed at the public trough all their lives.

If the council is going down that road, it had better be prepared to answer this question: How much do you think it would cost a private company to hire someone to run a $35 million-a-year enterprise?

It's going to be more than $70,000, right?

In the end, the council will talk big and spend small. And people will wonder why the city cannot attract a better quality of candidate to run for mayor.

Who in private enterprise in an equivalent job would take the pay cut to be mayor of Huntington?