A 2012 presidential contender has an extramarital affair, bloody revolts in Iran, a military coup in Honduras, Congress considers bills which will fundamentally change health care as we know it, and there's movement on environmental cap-and-trade laws. Yet: Fully 93% of cable coverage studied on the Thursday and Friday following his death was about the King of Pop. Yeah, I … Read More
Palin Profile
Vanity Fair has a whopper of an article on Sarah Palin, full of inside-the-McCain-campaign insight from those within the McCain camp (who, shall we say, are not Palin fans). If the Vanity Fair piece is too long, you might enjoy these excerpts from USA Today: On the campaign: "… (M)ost made it clear that they suffer a kind of survivor’s … Read More
This is F’ed Up On So Many Levels….
See if you agree….
Could Bachmann Wingnut Herself Out Of A Job?
The Star Tribune of Minneapolis raises an interesting point in its editorial bash of The World's Dumbest Politician ™, Michelle Bachmann: At the very least, the census statements call Bachmann's strategic judgment into question. She may be setting in motion events that could substantially hurt her home state and potentially cost her the office she occupies. The 2010 census will … Read More
Happy Birthday, Walkman
Yup. The Sony Walkman turns 30 years old this week. Which is relatively young for something that's… well…. dead. In this article, a 13-year-old turns in his iPod to spend a week with a Walkman. Guess which one he ended up preferring? My friends couldn't imagine their parents using this monstrous box, but there was interest in what the thing … Read More
Guess Who’s Buried In St. Paul’s Tomb In St. Paul’s Basicala?
St. Paul, apparently.
Web Side Story
A musical spoof about the Interwebs that'll have Leonard Bernstein rise from his grave, and then die again.
Finally, A Universal Charger
The major players and the European Union have finally agreed to a unviersal adaptor size for cell phones chargers. Jeez, about time.
Bring Your Guns To Church
I may not be a religious expert, but it seems to me that Jesus would not approve: Ken Pagano, the pastor of the New Bethel Church here, is passionate about gun rights. He shoots regularly at the local firing range, and his sermon two weeks ago was on “God, Guns, Gospel and Geometry.” And on Saturday night, he is inviting … Read More
Keeping Secrets
It's kind of amazing that nobody knew that New York Times reporter David Rohde had been kidnapped by the Taliban on November 10, and remained in their custody for several months. Well, the New York Times and the government knew of course, but they (rightly) decided to keep the information quiet. They figured that publicity would add to Rohde's value … Read More
Ricci Case Overturned
The US Supreme Court overturned the Second Circuit in the Ricci case, aka the "white firefighters case", this morning. The court held that it was wrong for the Town of New Haven to deny promotions to white firefighters after it appeared that the firefighters' exam was racially biased. The outcome was 5-4 along predictable lines: Kennedy, Scalia, Thomas, Roberts, and … Read More
Now She’s Just Making It Too Easy For Me
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) today, discussing the census: "Do they really need to know, like you said, the date and time that we leave mental stability?"
Great Moments In Pundtiry
Joe "the Plumber" Wurzelbacher, on the Constitution and Founding Fathers: "They knew socialism doesn't work. They knew communism doesn't work." The Constitution predates socialism by about 100 years.
Celebrities Who Didn’t Die Yesterday
No, Jeff Goldblum did not fall off a cliff in New Zealand. No, Harrison Ford did not die in his yacht off St. Tropez.