Did anyone see Sarah Palin’s interview this evening on The CBS Evening News? It was actually frightening thinking that this is someone who could soon be — as the saying goes — a “heartbeat away” from the presidency.
Here are a few highlights:
COURIC:  Do you consider yourself a feminist?
PALIN:  I do.  A feminist who believes in equal rights.

As opposed to…what? Are there feminists who don’t believe in equal rights?  I sort of thought that the feminist movement’s very purpose was to address gender inequality.  It was one of the few times …

Back in December of 2005, after nearly two years of blogging, I made a decision that got me in a little hot water with some of my regular readers:  I decided to move my blog from AOL, where it had been since I first launched it in February, 2004, to Blogger.  (I’m now using WordPress at my own site, for those of you who read via a feed reader.)
I made the decision because of what was a series of poor examples of customer service from AOL itself, culminating in the …

I’m not sure exactly how you can have a meme to determine whether one surfs the internet like a man or a woman without asking something about porn, but I gave this little quiz a shot and here’s what I got.

Your Surfing Habits are 80% Male, 20% Female

If we had to guess, we would guess that you are a man.
You use the internet to make your life more efficient – and to make you smarter.
For you, the internet is like a vast encyclopedia.
You search and surf extensively. You look up …

When he’s not trying to make it out like he single-handedly saved the world by suspending his campaign — where was Palin and why didn’t she step up? — to solve the economic crisis, he’s making a big deal about Obama’s previous statements that he’d be willing to meet with foreign leaders without precondition.
First, and let me get this one out of the way, if McCain has all of the answers about the nation’s economic ills, I wonder why he felt the need to suspend the campaign and “rush” back …

I made a modification of the typeface here at Patrick’s Place.  The body type is now a closer match to the new logo.  Granted, it’s not the same typeface, but it looks closer than what I had before.
But what do you think:  is this typeface still as easy to read?  Does it give you a headache?  Or does it make the blog look a little crisper and cleaner?
Leave me a comment and let me know what you think!

You’ll have to forgive me if I seem a little preoccupied with the economy these days; it’s not that I have some massive portfolio of stocks that I’m watching take a nosedive, nor am I struggling to pay an adjustable rate mortgage whose payments have suddenly jumped hundreds of dollars to an unaffordable level.
My biggest problem is credit card debt. Stupid credit card debt. The kind that only people with far too little common sense manage to build up.
And so now I’m working to get things turned around. …

I have been blessed with some amazing friends.  I’ve never been “Mr. Popularity,” one of those types who seems to be surrounded by friends at every moment.  Then again, I’ve never truly wanted to be, despite occasional bouts of lonliness or depression at various points.
I found this little friend quiz and gave it a try. I can’t really admit that my relationship with my own family is “strained,” although there are times when I definitely seek out advice from my friends long before my family. But I couldn’t …

Its fundamentals may be strong, as one candidate for president seems to believe, but the economy‘s a little rough at the moment. That’s the topic of this week’s set of questions.

First to play last week: Cat of Sweet Memes. Congratulations!
(According to the rules, “First to Play” requires you to be the first to include the link to the specific entry in which you answered the questions, not just the general link to your blog.)
Here are this week’s “Saturday Six” questions. Either answer the questions in a comment here, …

I was able to catch a bit of The Late Show with David Letterman last night, when David Letterman was still talking about John McCain’s sudden decision to bow out of a scheduled appearance the night before.  McCain canceled his appearance at the last minute, so he could play superhero and “race” to Washington to save the country from an economy he told Letterman was “about to crater.”
In the clips below — from Wednesday’s show — Letterman, who made it clear that he regards McCain as a real hero for …

The ongoing drama with the New AT&T continues.
First, let me recap:

In mid-July, I signed up for “Auto Draft” service, which allows the New AT&T to automatically debit the payment due from my checking account on the due date.  One less thing for me to worry about, assuming they don’t screw things up. I received an email from them thanking me for enrolling.  So they clearly knew I had done so.  Just sayin’…
In August, I got an email saying my payment was past due.  I went to the website and saw …

Everyone who is a big fan of Sarah Palin, or who thinks that she was the perfect choice for John McCain to make as his running mate should be concerned about this.  I quote from Jeff Tompkins’ blog:
“On September 7, eight days after Gov. Sarah Palin was announced as McCain’s running-mate and three days after the Republican convention ended, McCain campaign manager Rick Davis said Palin would answer no questions until the media treated her with ‘some level of respect and deference.’”
Respect and deference?  Does anyone believe that McCain would …

Please pronounce, out loud, the word important.  If you’re pronouncing it correctly, it sounds something like, “im-POR-tunt.”  You should be hearing both instances of the letter t.
If, on the other hand, you pronounce it like a cardiologist who just appeared on CBS’s The Early Show, and it comes out like, “im-por-ANT,” please smack yourself upside the head until it sinks in that neither t is supposed to be silent.  I can only hope her mastery of cardiac issues is better than her grasp on pronounciation.