Oprah 2020

Oprah's speech at the Golden Globes the other night set a million hearts aflutter.

I wouldn't get my hopes up. Not that she couldn't win. If a condo hustler from Manhattan can find his way to the Oval Office, I'm sure Oprah could too.

No, the reason I wouldn't get my hopes up is because after she wins, it's gonna be plenty more same-old same-old. The same old Yankee Oligarchy pushing the same old plutocratic agenda, in other words.

That's pretty much the story with Trump, isn't it? The hyperventilating of the punditocracy aside, has anything really changed with Trump?

Hell no!

Same old rancid exceptionalism.

Same old rampant bullying of the less exceptional nations.

Same old contempt for the working class.

Same-old same-old all across the dial.

But, she's a black woman! Things would HAVE to change...

No they wouldn't. How did things change when America's "democracy" coughed up its first black president? Why would a black woman president be any different?

Don't let her skin tone fool you. Oprah may be a black woman, but she's also a billionaire. As such, she's got way more in common with her fellow billionaires than she does with the minimum wage gals changing the sheets at the Super 8.

As America's first female president, she'll do more for her billionaire friends than she will for those minimum wage workers.

That's democracy in the USA.

Lance Armstrong PR team takes Falling Downs' advice three months late

Nor has Lance followed through; he has yet to fire the PR team.

It's obvious at this point that the think tank here at Falling Downs and most other informed observers had Lyin' Lance figured out all along.

Nor is this finely-tuned display of contrition on Oprah quite what we were hoping for.

Any word on what the Oprah Winfrey Network paid Lance for this interview?