1. I almost forgot that today is February 29, meaning my credit card bill, due March 2, might actually get to its destination in time! Happy leap year! Also happy birthday to the few people I know with birthdays today. Happy birthday Sonal, Travis, Antonio Sabato Jr., and Ja Rule. Okay but I did get [...]
Archive for February, 2008
Leap Year
Posted in Uncategorized on February 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Angelina Says “Stay in Iraq”
Posted in Uncategorized on February 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
***Angelina Jolie says U. S. should stay in Iraq for humanitarian purposes:
Today’s humanitarian crisis in Iraq — and the potential consequences for our national security — are greater still. Can the United States afford to gamble that 4 million or more poor and displaced people, in the heart of Middle East, won’t explode in violent [...]
Scones
Posted in Uncategorized on February 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
What’s up with scones? What the hell are they so dry? I just ate one because it looked all good but now my mouth’s like the fucking Serengeti. Which made me think of the similarity between “desert” and “dessert.” Weird, huh?
Debate 20
Posted in Uncategorized on February 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last night I sat down for what was probably the final debate between Hillary and Obama. It’s almost hard to imagine that both senators can’t progress forward after the nomination. Also hard to believe we’ve been through 19 of these already. I guess that’s what I do with my time.
My first reactions of the night [...]
Hope You Can Kill For
Posted in Uncategorized on February 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This was in the Philly Inquirer yesterday. It would be funny if it weren’t so tragic.
Things turned violent in a Montgomery County home during a televised debate between candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton.
It ended with Obama supporter Sean Shurelds being taken to Hahnemann Hospital with stab wounds that were allegedly inflicted by his [...]
Old School
Posted in Uncategorized on February 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s been a long and trying day, the lion’s share of which was spent in a hospital waiting area as my great aunt underwent open-heart surgery. She made it through the surgery just fine, thankfully, and now faces weeks of recovery. I remembered today the “one day at a time” slogan painted on a plaque [...]
Oscars
Posted in Uncategorized on February 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
It’s official — I have to see “No Country for Old Men,” “La Vie en Rose,” “There Will be Blood,” and “Atonement.” And “The Savages.” Full list of last night’s nominees and winners here.
The one qualified opinion I can make is that “Michael Clayton” was supremely good, and Tilda Swinton made the film.
Hillary
Posted in Uncategorized on February 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I just thought this was a grat pic of Hillary for the frontpage of the NY Times today. I saw a minute of a speech she gave the day this photo was taken. The speech was the same old same old, and it was clearly too cold outside, but I lingered on CNN because she [...]
NADER
Posted in Uncategorized on February 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Nader just announced on “MTP” that he’s entering the race. Speaking of Hillary and Obama, Nader told Tim Russert, “The issue is do they have the moral courage, do they have the fortitude to stand up to corporate powers and get things done for the American people?”
What do we think about this? I couldn’t watch [...]
the waiting game
Posted in Uncategorized on February 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
One of my favorite features in New York Magazine is the Undulating Curve, in which the authors plot the public’s attitudes towards popular culture on a curve. I couldn’t find a recent example on-line – I’m guessing they only put it the print edition. But I did find one from March 2006:
This isn’t one of the better [...]
Morning Dose of Ben Smith
Posted in Uncategorized on February 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Politico’s Ben Smith posts some insightful tidbits this morning:
1. Ralph Nader is close to announcing bid. Ben says Nader just sent an e-mail implying as much:
As you know, we’ve been exploring the possibilities in recent weeks.
And here’s one question that keeps coming up:
What’s been pulled off the table by the corporatized political machines in this [...]
Debate: First Impressions
Posted in Uncategorized on February 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
More to come but here’s my initial takes.
Domestic and foreign policy
Obama lays the groundwork well in saying we start from a point of agreement, as he and Hillary agree on so many issues – a testament to the unity of the Democratic Party. But their paths for accomplishing their policy proposals diverge, his fostering cooperation, [...]
Peace Out
Posted in Uncategorized on February 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The peace sign turns 50-years-old today. In 1958, Brit Gerald Holtom came up with the design by combining the international semaphore letters N and D, standing for “nuclear disarmament.”
Yay peace.
The World
Posted in Uncategorized on February 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Even though I’m anxiously awaiting tonight’s Democratic debate (8 pm EST, CNN) and smirkingly scouring coverage of McCain’s liaison with a lobbyist, international affairs are front and center today.
1. Kosovo
Serbians in Belgrade just attacked the U.S. Embassy there in protest of last Sunday’s decision by Kosovo to finally declare its independence after years in limbo [...]
March Madness
Posted in Uncategorized on February 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We still have a few weeks to go until the NCAA brackets are announced but I’m already getting excited. No matter that I haven’t watched one game this year. Or that I can’t remember who won last year. It’s all about the thrill of betting against your friends and (hopefully) throwing it in their faces when you [...]
TV…How Prescient
Posted in Uncategorized on February 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Finally, someone of more esteem than me (“than I?”) comments on the uncanny similarities between Obama and Jimmy Smits’s character, Matt Santos, on the final two seasons of “The West Wing.” Santos is a young representative who hasn’t served too long in the House — a tall, strapping man with rockstar charisma and ethnic sex [...]
State of the Campaign
Posted in Uncategorized on February 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yep, “presumptive nominee” fits Obama pret-ty well right now. With 10 in a row and no end to the momentum in sight, is Hillary dead in the water? She spoke from Youngstown, Ohio last night, still sounding assured, if not hoarse, to a crowd of cheering unionites, trying in earnest to sure up her working-class [...]
Spam
Posted in Uncategorized on February 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My favorite spam subject title ever:
Rise from the dead, ye little head
Clinton Cries “Plagiarism,” Looks Stupid
Posted in Uncategorized on February 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Hillary Clinton’s campaign has landed yet another below-the-belt, meaningless attack on Obama, this time saying he plagiarized part of a speech from Mass. Gov. Duvel Patrick. In a speech while he was running for office in 2006, Patrick defended his use of rhetoric by repeating some of the most famous taglines in history—“I have a [...]
Happy Presidents’ Day
Posted in Uncategorized on February 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you’re like me, Presidents’ Day just means that auto dealers have big sales, the trash doesn’t get collected, and you have to work anyway.
I nonetheless want to honor America’s very first president by linking to this animated video attesting to Washington’s manliness. If you only click on one link from this blog, this should [...]
