Gotta Get Up Early… · …to get a lot of players for the Saturday Six! Thanks to everyone who played and provided a near-record participation rate! I try to vary the time it is posted each week, so no one person is always advantaged depending on time zones, but posting early in the morning clearly has its advantages! · November 16th, 2008 at 1:43 pm(0)
One Day, They’ll Understand · I was browsing a few blogs at AOL while I still can; as of November 1st, AOL’s J-Land will be no more. It’ll just vanish into a blogospheric black hole when someone hits the big “purge” button. AOL has worked out some kind of deal with Blogger to make it easy for AOL bloggers to transfer their blogs to Blogger’s platform. I came across a comment from a newly-migrated writer who said — I kid you not — “So far, so good. It’s not AOL, of course, but I’ll adjust.” Blogger isn’t AOL, and the person says that like it’s somehow a bad thing?!? · October 28th, 2008 at 9:13 pm(3)
McCain Negative Ads Backfiring? · Huffington Post reports that Barack Obama’s campaign raised a record in fund raising, surpassing the record $66 million raised in August. “Moreover, the assualt that John McCain has launched against Obama’s character…has largely backfired,” Huffpo says, quoting Obama sources who shared internal campaign polling figures showing a sharp fall in “positive feelings” about the Republican ticket. It’s always nice to see evidence that negative campaign ads don’t work. If only more politicians would take the hint. Full story here. · October 12th, 2008 at 11:03 pm(2)
Mood Shift · In an interesting Op/Ed, a former John McCain supporter who tried to get him on the GOP ticket instead of George W. Bush in 2000 says McCain now has a choice: he can “go down in history as a decent senator and an honorable military man with many successes, or go down in history as the latest abettor of right-wing extremist hate.” He also says that McCain rallies are now beginning to resemble lynch mobs. · October 12th, 2008 at 8:02 pm(0)
McCain: I Know How to Get Bin Laden · Seriously, if McCain really knows how to get Bin Laden, as he just promised in the debate, why hasn’t he, in all of his vast experience, gone to Bush and given him this strategy? How many billions of dollars could he have saved this country if he has such a clear plan to get the guy? Empty promises don’t get my vote, especially when they come from someone who seems to take delight in accusing his opponent of doing nothing but making empty promises. · October 7th, 2008 at 10:18 pm(0)
Despite the Outage… · Have no fear, fans of the Sunday Seven! It will appear without difficulty a couple of hours past midnight, thanks to working wifi at Barnes & Noble and a scheduling function on Wordpress. I’m now returning to my internet-less home. · October 4th, 2008 at 9:35 pm(0)
The Imitations Are Good… · Newspapers around the world inadvertently ran a photo slip-up when reporting on Sarah Palin. Instead of a shot of Palin in an interview, as intended, the accompanying photo showed Tina Fey and Amy Poehler from a recent Saturday Night Live sketch. Fey has done a great job imitating Palin, giving some us the first opportunity to actually laugh at something seen on SNL in years. But was she really that good? · October 4th, 2008 at 10:12 am(0)
44 · Today is my parents’ 44th anniversary. We hear so much about divorces these days that I thought it was worth mentioning that long marriages are still possible. · October 2nd, 2008 at 8:35 am(2)
Neither T is Silent · 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. · September 23rd, 2008 at 7:50 am(2)
It’s All About the Timing · The United States Supreme Court is planning to decide whether to hear a last-ditch appeal by Troy Davis, who was convicted of shooting a police officer to death in the parking lot of a Burger King in Savannah. That decision is scheduled to be made on September 29th. Unfortunately, that’s six days after the state of Georgia will have put him to death. · September 21st, 2008 at 11:44 pm(0)
Palin’s Problem · Here’s an interesting OpEd piece on Sarah Palin, the woman selected by John McCain, the man who has consistently blasted Barack Obama’s lack of experience. I note for the record that this Op Ed writer, who seems happy to be on the media-bashing bandwagon, bases his major points about Palin on an interview conducted and broadcast in one of the mainstream media outlets, so the portion of his argument that is a sweeping generalization about the media universally embracing Palin is flawed. His other points, however, are definitely worth considering. · September 13th, 2008 at 10:47 am(8)
‘Disturbingly’ Similar? · Silly me…I thought Disturbia was intended to be a remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window. Apparently it wasn’t, although a lawsuit by the writer of the story on which Rear Window was based says the plot of Disturbia was a ripoff of his story. Hitchcock bought the rights to make his movie; a lawsuit says that the makers of Disturbia left that little detail off their “to do” list. It’ll be interesting to see how this one turns out. · September 12th, 2008 at 8:51 pm(0)
Who Went Missing? · I just checked out a couple of local weather sites to see what’s new with Hurricane Ike, the current monster of the season. It has weakened from a Category Four and now appears to be headed towards the Gulf. Then I scanned back to the east to look for the third storm, Josephine. She’s gone! Josephine has weakened, apparently, to tropical depression status, effectively losing the storm its name. If she was to re-strengthen to tropical storm status, thereby re-earning a name, would she become Josephine again, or would she undergo a sex-change and take the next name on the list, Kyle? Not that I’m hoping it will pick up steam just to find out, you understand, but I’m just curious. · September 6th, 2008 at 12:48 pm(1)
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