August 2008
67 posts
This Alaskan’s downhome dossier on Sarah Palin is priceless http://tinyurl.com/6exvyq via Daily Dish
The paleoconservative blogosphere believes that Palin will get McCain to finally flip on ANWR, with a joint visit to show how “ugly” it is.
A lot of the snarky, bad-vibes responses to O’s speech are outing how small some people really are. David Brooks on PBS was contemptible.
Andrew Sullivan’s instant response to Obama’s acceptance speech is a thing of beauty. http://tinyurl.com/5vzc66
Obama. Fuckin A.
Obama’s the candidate. Partying down to the O’Jays, “Love Train”
The Obama campaign has 2,504 people on staff; they’re focusing on polls in 18 battleground states, not national http://tinyurl.com/6m2xnp
New Mexico, home of red and green chile, yields to Illinois, home of the next president of the United States, which yields to New York.
Taking Lawrence Lessig’s advice and watching the raw feed of the DNC on C-SPAN.org. Cynical shittiness quotient has dropped to zero.
The most annoying geopolitical cliche right now — man, does it bug me! — is “near abroad.” It’s the “boots on the ground” of August 2008.
“Unless you understand how terrible the wounds of the last eight years have been, you do not understand the urgency of the Obama candidacy.”
Hey, thanks, David Brooks, for chiding Democrats about “the old Bush obsession.” ‘Cause the last 8 years isn’t an effective campaign issue.
If things don’t work out with Barack and Caroline doesn’t mind, can I marry Michelle Obama?
Mad Men: wickedly playing with how hung up we’ve become about denial. Not Don Draper!: “You’ll be shocked at how much this never happened.”
I’ve unfollowed many 2.0 idiot philosophes, but have a weakness for the nitwit ponderings and pronouncements of @JasonCalacanis
Re-reading Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin novels. Pure pleasure, funny, moving: a masterpiece. Enjoying it even more the second time.
It’s been two fantastic weeks of me not watching one flipping minute of inspiring Olympic action. Hey IOC: nice job gilding the clampdown!
Researching John McCain’s environmental record, and hoping he won’t flip on ANWR (as it’s rumored he will).
Biden gets an A from me. And my wife’s got a doctorate too, so I know what I’m talking about.
Biden, as Joe Trippi just blogged, is big trouble for John McCain.
Biden literally - literally - really likes the word “literally.”
“Ladies and gentlemen, it is time for a reckoning.”
Obama’s tone and body language: pissed off. Good.
Biden’s burning down the barn.
Tivo FF’ding through CNN lead-in to Obama-Biden. Aural equivalent of empty calories - say, Cheetos. But not as tasty.
“They called him B-B-Biden.”
“He has been a powerful critic of the catastrophic Bush-Cheney foreign policy.”Oh yeah, baby.
Heading out with a big load of Whole Foods organic veg castoffs to feed the Gunnison’s prairie dogs at Frenchy’s park.
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly on DVD tonight. A movie that plays like a great rock album, just flowing beautiful heartbreak.
White-hair-plugged blindingly toothed loquaciousness is the new black.
Jobs! Steve Jobs. Not JOB. (Musn’t Twitter after a hefty margarita.)
The two most disciplined tight-lipped leaders/organizations around: Steve Job & Apple, Obama & Obama’s campaign.
Barack just called and let slip the news, it’s an amazing VP pick! I can’t begin to express how I feel in 140 characters - okay, the name is
Feeling the love 4 my bikes: got a new Zuma helmet, Thick and Zesty white bar tape for the silver Sequoia. Time to spin up to Indian Mkt.
Stumbled on Girl, Interrupted on TV. Nine years old, more like 999.. Winona, Angelina, Whoopi, Vanessa R„ Peggy from Mad Men. Ultraweird.
McCain vs. Griz — check out my post on the Senator’s infamous bear-DNA soundbite at http://iwild.org/
Will Americans really believe what McCain offered at Saddleback last night? Or do they just want to be lulled into believing, Bush-style?
“The pursuit of freedom, as defined in an age of consumerism, has induced a...”
– Andrew Bacevich, in his new book, “The Limits Of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism.”
[via The Daily Dish]
Getting house shipshape for friends visiting from Iowa, distant thunder rumbles over the Sangre de Christos, waiting for rain..
Uh oh, looks like @ObamaNews has been hijacked by bots or spammers, or by some hacker troll counterpart to that Obama Nation book creep.
Andrew Sullivan’s take on the McCain-Obama kissing-the-ring audience with Rick Warren is scathing and dead-on. http://tinyurl.com/6462t7
Despite severe iPhone craving, I’m sticking to cheap Virgin Mobile + a Nokia N800 tablet until the Android/smartphone shakeout clarifies.
Headline in the Australian: “Putin on the Blitz” (via @ABQJournal)
Russia officer on the NewsHour: “If the Americans can take Baghdad, we can take Tbilisi.”
Can I just say that MacBreak Weekly is a great podcast? And I don’t even own an iPhone!
Writing a report on Santa Fe’s Gunnison’s prairie dogs. They’re one of the coolest things about this city.
There’ll be an infinity of web comments and chat rooms in Hell. Have fun typing “Obama is a Muslim” forever!
Tuning up my proprioceptive and kinesthetic senses on the Bongo balance board. Once saw RFK Jr. do several perfect 180° jumps on this baby.
That Georgia’s always on m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-mind.
New reason to go on living: “Burn After Reading” on 9/12. Coen Bros, Malkovich, Pitt, McDormand, Clooney. Trailer: http://tinyurl.com/4qwj3g