The Milquetoast Strategy, Part Two
We thought we were down to one Seattleite reality TV star after Verna's aforementioned spectacular flameout on last week's Apprentice. This would leave us with Alex, who skated through yet another episode by lurking quietly in the background. (Though, to his credit, he backed up his leader at the...Seattlest regrets to inform you that we actually typed "rose ceremony" before realizing we meant "boardroom"...Alex backed up his leader, Bren, in the boardroom.) Our guess is that people who believe in "family, God, and America" are the same people to take into battle for backup. God bless Alex.
But wait...who's that out there in the first episode of what must be Survivor XLIII? The wise, witty, "older" gentleman, picked last for his team? Why, it's a lawyer from Bellevue named Willard, and we like him already. 
You gotta give it up for a fella in his fifties who's willing to appear shirtless up next to what so far are a faceless bunch of abs. You also gotta give it up for Willard calling out Wanda, the wack job who stood erect in the tribal dinghy while everyone else was rowing madly, belting out one of the many Survivor-themed songs she apparently had composed for the show. (Wanda was eliminated--seriously--ten minutes in. Last we saw her she was still singing, but now zipping away in the Probst motorboat, clad only in a slip.) Back to Willard--we have high hopes for him as long as he can avoid the Abs crew. He seems to be with a tribe that values smarts, and they managed to beat the Abs tribe in their first, entirely physical challenge. Plus--check out those earrings!
Pleased to note that as of Thursday evening, Willard ranked third in the highly scientific Popularity Poll on the Survivor website. We swear we only voted once.
