I'm back in 2010

So 2010 is here. With apologies to SI's Peter King, here are some things I think I think.

For starters, some people have chastised me for not updating the blog on a more regular basis. I have one rule: I rule the blog, the blog doesn't rule me. The blogosphere doesn't need one more voice railing about Tiger. Although I raised more than eyebrow when I saw the comments of golfer Jesper Parnevik, the guy who introduced Elin to Tiger. "We thought Tiger was a better guy...The next time she should hit him with a 3-Iron."

10.) Now that Copenhagen has come and gone, I wonder: Are we passed the point of no-return for climate change? Scientists a lot smarter than I say that at the current rate, Minnesota will have the climate of Texas sooner than we think.

9.) From the 'legend is always better' file: The return of Bret Hart to the WWE last night revealed the years have not been kind to the Excellence of Execution. It's doubtful Hart could even be a mid-carder now.

8.) The Dallas Cowboys, although playing at home playoff game against Philly Saturday night, look to be in trouble. It's 2007 all over again. Remember? Dallas beat the Giants twice during the regular season but lost as the Giants began their Super Bowl run.

7.) Not that I watched all the coverage but thankfully I missed perennial camera hog Dick Clark on New Year's Eve...Just because he owns the show, doesn't give Clark the right to creep people out. It's New Year's Eve for God's sake, no one wants to see him warble out one more missive to keep some dopey streak alive. Hopefully someone close to Clark has spelled it out for him.

6.) Me in my element: Grand Central Station on 1/2/10...I did about 60 seconds of improv comedy and made about 20 women laugh while waiting in line for the toilet. As my friend Tommy would say, "the fire still burns."

5.) The baseball network is the best thing to happen to television since the founding of ESPN in 1979.

4.) Don't look now, but among other things, your credit card company is looking to charge you an inactivity fee if you don't use your plastic often enough. Priceless. Where's the outrage from Sens. Chris Dodd and Charles Schumer? Exactly.

3.) Not that I'm counting but it seems the BHO Administration is on a Bush-like slump...Between the embarrasing gaffes, security leaks and misintelligence, you wonder who's pulling the strings over there. Time for the Messiah to step up. Campaign's over dude. Quit the interviews and speeches. Time to govern.

2.) Does it make me a bad person to chalk up the death of Bengals wide receiver/All-Pro thug Chris Henry as thinning of the herd? The Man Upstairs has a way of evening the teams, doesn't he? Besides being an arch criminal, Henry was an unreliable fantasy player....

1.) Between the Winter Classic and the Olympics, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman has all the momentum to market the NHL...What makes me think he'll bungle it like Fredo Corleone?

Lastly...Let's cut the shit: It's pronounced 'Twenty-Ten'. Can we get on with it now?