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There is a quick answer to who will replace the former host of NBC’s Meet the Press who recently passed away while at work…  Tim Russert is the only person who can replace himself according to NBC’s news chiefs.  This all said who are they going to use to try to get close to replacing him.

There are several people on the assumed list including Katie Couric, Brian Williams, Andrea Mitchell, and David Gregory.  It may take a few anchors to hold down the Meet the Press show at first.

One of the best replacements might just be Keith Olbermann.  He seems to do a lot of homework before his show and special commentaries and might learn to be tougher when it comes to interviews with more training.

The prospect of using Tom Brokaw to fill in for Tim Russert might be the best for now.  Tom Brokaw knows his politics and knows his country more than just about any journalist.  Hey, why not bring out Dan Rather and test him out for the position or would that bring too much controversy?

Tim Russert is a legend at NBC News and it will be a chore trying to find someone to fill his shoes.

Tomatoes are probably the only fruit or vegetable that every animal or insect seems to like.  You plant them in your yard and snakes, birds, and all types of bugs will go after your young red or green tomatoes.  The predators will not leave the tomatoes alone… even bacteria seems to want these antioxidants.

I was on a trip to Orlando and bought a sub from Subway on friday and asked for extra tomatoes.  Then this scare got worse and the media ran the tomato story all weekend long and even McDonald’s stopped putting tomatoes on hamburgers.  Wait?  McDonald’s doesn’t even put tomatoes on their Big Macs much less that small cherry you get on a salad there doesn’t count as a tomato.

You know its a scare when you see the FDA coming out with a list of possible suspects and you walk into Whole Foods and they are missing half their stock.  Whole foods got rid of the Roma tomatoes but kept the vine tomatoes and are offering refunds on previous purchases.  I can see the lines forming now of people with a receipt in one hand and a tomato in another.

I was served a tomato in my salad on my American Airlines flight on Monday - I might just die from that!  We know even the water on those flights might have some kind of bacteria or the claims of them finding feces and other remains in airplane water.  I think American uses bottled water unless they refill the bottles with what’s on board from the septic tanks.

Try and order a salsa lately?  Salsa and pico de gallo has been banned from most restaurants as well.  What is this world coming to when we cannot eat one of the healthiest fruits (or vegetable).

I still to this day do not know whether its tomatoe or tomato or if its a fruit or vegetable.  Everyone has different viewpoints but one think I know for sure is I have four tomato plants in my backyard and I plan to eat tomatoes whether the FDA tells me I can or not.

The racial tension is sparking up lately just as we head into mid-June. Spike Lee is criticizing Dirty Harry Clint Eastwood for not casting any blacks in his new movie. Eastwood who is know for saying things like “go ahead punk, make my day” told Spike Lee to shut his face and responded with a good reason for not casting any African-Americans in two World War II movies Eastwood filmed. His response said that the raising of the flag at Iwo Jima did not involve black soldiers.

Spike Lee calling Clint Eastwood an “angry old man” sounds pretty discriminatory to me. Who is really discriminating here? I am sure its just one of those fun publicity stunts from Spike Lee but who knows. I guess everyone will take sides against Eastwood citing this and saying he was for Hillary instead of Obama saying he is a racist.