Hello, everybody. We begin this week's blog with the latest on the health care reform crisis and President Obama taking a page out of Joe Namath's Super Bowl III playbook guaranteeing us the bill will pass.

But...will anyone buy it? Unlike the Clintons' attempt in the early '90s, this time around it's a very serious matter as most of the world's finest health care has belonged to Europe and Canada. And over a week ago, Sen. Lisa Murkowski held a town hall here in Fairbanks, but things went in an orderly fashion that there were no videos of it on YouTube. Maybe they're saving for Sen. Mark Begich's town hall meeting next month on September 26 (yes, after my 31st birthday), which I'll be at.

Now Obama in his latest weekly address debunked once and for all all the myths and scare tactics about the health care issue, especially those "death panels" and possible socialized medicine: There are no such things as those happening. And I'm not buying those myself. But I'm hoping and praying that when Congress and Senate return to action this fall, no punches will be pulled when it comes to getting the health care bill passed so that America will no longer be far behind.

This week, the cast of the new season of "Dancing With The Stars" was revealed to the world, and surprise, surprise...Donny Osmond will be among those who'll put his fancy footwork to use! Others joining him include mixed martial arts fighter Chuck Liddell, new mom and "Sabrina, The Teenage Witch" star Melissa Joan Hart, R&B singers Mya and Macy Gray, former NFL star Michael Irvin, Olympic medalist Natalie Coughlin, Kelly Osbourne, Aaron Carter (son of Backstreet Boy Nick), former supermodel Kathy Ireland, model/actress Joanna Krupa, and disgraced former politician Tom DeLay.

For Mya, this is her second chance at a reality show after the last one she did, "Secret Talents of the Stars", got the cancellation notice after only one episode last summer. As for who'll be the first to go? I think DeLay or Osbourne. And already, Donny O appears to be the heavy favorite to win it all; if not, then Hart or Irvin. We'll see what happens in September.

The week's other big entertainment story was...yes, another tape scandal just weeks after Erin Andrews'. But this time, it involves McSteamy, his wife, and a beauty queen.

It's not called a "sex tape" according to the lawyers, but a video featuring "Grey's Anatomy" star Eric Dane, wife Rebecca Gayheart, and former Miss Teen USA contestant Kari Ann Peniche all frolicking naked and doing drugs made the Internet rounds. Now over the years we've been treated to celebrity sex videos that were of interest to men, but in the case of this threesome this time around, it has finally appealed to women because...well, it's McSteamy! And "Grey's'" majority audience is females (and some males just for the Katherine Heigl parts).

Is it going to help the show this upcoming season? Absolutely, though spin-off "Private Practice" will have some trouble competing with CBS' "The Mentalist" and NBC's "The Jay Leno Show" at 10:00 on Thursdays. Okay, I'm seeing things this way: The women watch "Grey's Anatomy" for McDreamy and McSteamy; us men tune in to "Private Practice" just for our Kate Walsh fix. Now if only a sex tape of her gets leaked out...

And last but not least...the latest iPhone commercial have graced our screens, showcasing us the latest (and useless) apps out there. Ever since the iPhone and the iPod Touch have debuted last year, the whole world has gone app crazy.

I bought an iPod Touch recently because for some reason or another, I didn't get an iPhone (by the way, my mobile phone provider is AT&T). But one of the reasons for the iPod Touch is that I wanted to play around with those apps myself. So far I have 36 of them, ranging from the Associated Press to Twitteriffic to Facebook and MySpace to games like Scrabble and UNO.

And then there are those useless apps that I have no intention of adding them in anytime soon, like iBeer. What the hell is that?!

But of all those thousands of apps out there, I want to see one in which you can lose weight while reading news stories, Twittering, updating your Facebook status, checking your e-mail, watching YouTube videos, playing Tetris, and drinking imaginary beer all at the same time. Yeah, there'll be an app for that. So long and stay strong.