"60 Minutes' " resident curmudgeon really needs two things.

First, someone needs to take a weed wacker to his eyebrows.

Second, he needs to retire. His folksy little pieces about his favorite typewriter or the fact that people don't pick up pennies were amusing 20 years ago. Now he's opining on serious issues -- and being shown to be a damn fool.

DON IMUS: Tell me about your thoughts on re-instituting the draft.

ANDY ROONEY: Well, I think a draft produces a better army than the one we would have with all volunteers. Because I think you get average Americans if you, if you have a draft. And if it’s an all volunteer army, you get people who join up because of some problem in their own lives. They don’t have anything else to do, they don’t have a job, or they can’t find what they want to do, so they join the Army. And it doesn’t produce the best army. [emphasis added]

It's obvious Rooney hasn't met a serviceman since Vietnam.

And does that old fool seriously believe that people who don't want to be doing a certain type of work perform that work better than people who do enjoy the work? Whatever that work may be. Are people who hate to write better writers than people who love to write? How about public speakers? Stock traders? Old-fart newsmen who should've retired a decade ago?