All day Tuesday, we were treated to 'round-the-clock coverage of the crazy astronaut who drove from Houston to Florida to confront the woman vying for the attention of her alleged object of affection.
And every time you turned on one of the cable news channels, the script at the bottom of the screen read: "Houston, we have a problem." CNN, MS-NBC, all of them. Even ESPN, on the sports yakker Pardon The Interruption, as hosts Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon dissected the case, the type at the bottom of the screen read, well, you know.
On the positive side, though, it did give Kornheiser an opportunity to crack wise and make a Uranus joke related to the allegation that the astronaut wore a diaper as she drove the 900 miles from Houston to Orlando. Kornheiser is the nation's leading distributor of Uranus jokes outside of middle schools.
We need a new cliche. Something like, "Houston, looks like we have a screw loose up there."
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