Hey, did you hear that a guy named Ronald Reagan died? Apparently he played the 40th President of the United States on this long-ass West Wing type program that lasted 8 years. Now they're doing the longest tribute to a dead actor I've ever seen. Longer than those Oscar remembers segments.

I heard a guy say Reagan taught him to love his country again. Some other guy said Reagan defeated the Soviet Union (even though a pesky Senator from New York name of Moynihan did a financial analysis and predicted it would be bankrupt by the early 1990s anyway. Oh, and he did this in 1978, by the way.) Some people just thought he was a great dad-like figure, except for his own children. Anyway, we're a weird country sometimes--Maybe we'll get over this. See this site for a critical look at this guy's legacy.

http://slate.msn.com/id/2102008/