General voters are ignoring it, some political junkies are exhausted, but there are two groups very pleased with the Presidential races starting so soon and compressed primaries: television and radio stations:
The presidential election is 14 months away and with as many as 17 candidates now running, U.S. television and radio broadcasters are elated at […]
Who is John Galt?
For those who haven’t read Atlas Shrugged, move along. No need to confound you. For the rest of you there is a real-world answer:
The John Galt Corporation of the Bronx, hired last year for the dangerous and complex job of demolishing the former Deutsche Bank building at 130 Liberty Street, where two […]
Pro-life Jacksonville football fans will be really ticked at their NFL team:
When the Jaguars were named as the National Football League’s 30th franchise in 1993, the Weaver family which owns the team wanted to make sure they gave back to the northeast Florida community.
They started the Jaguars Foundation a year later and awards went out […]
There’s this new internet service BookSwim. It’s a NetFlix for books. You sign up, add books to a list, BookSwim sends them to you, and when you’re done reading you send it back. Nix the internet and add the late fees and actual building and you have yourself a library, an “innovation” that’s a few […]
MTV and MySpace will be co-hosting Presidential dialogues. John Edwards is the first participant/victim:
The announced front-running candidates of both parties will participate, each holding individual dialogues with voters. Voters can instant-message, e-mail or text their questions in real-time during the events, which will be webcast live on MTV.com and MySpaceTV.com.
To be held September through December, […]
The Huffington Post needs better headline writers. Rep. John Murtha’s latest anti-Bush rant is titled, “The American People will not Accept Patience.” It’s from a President Johnson quote during the Vietnam War. But just looking at that headline you’d think Murtha thought ADD infected whole swaths of the population. MTV, video games, and the super-compressed […]
There are still open slots for The Webloggers Fantasy Football League. It’s powered by ESPN.com with the live draft starting tonight at 8:30 pm ET. Being a weblogger is no requirement. Previous fantasy football experience isn’t required either. And with my lack of preparation you stand a solid chance of beating me. If you want […]
Despite all Hugo Chavez’s power-to-the-people shtick his efforts haven’t reduced Venezuela’s income inequality. What it has done is secure his place as a top-notch authoritarian.
“Economic Divide” [via Marginal Revolution]
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A Connecticut man is a thief but a polite thief:
A man who apologized after robbing a Subway at gunpoint returned a week later for more money and again said he was sorry, police said.
During the first robbery, on Aug. 13, the robber apologized to the clerk, saying, “Sorry, I have to do this,” and taking […]
A naked woman running around would make a fairly good odd story, but a naked woman attacking other people with a hammer makes a great odd story.
“Cops: Naked Lady Assaulted Women With Hammer”
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A group of conservatives held a press conference in Quebec where President Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and Mexican President Felipe Calderon were meeting decrying a possible North American Union and the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP). Howard Phillips fretted about a “New World Order.” Another participant, Jerome Corsi, known as the Swift Boat […]
In Rep. Steve Kagen’s mind children are our future…our future sources of tax revenue:
“If our children are healthy, they’ll develop into their full potential and become wonderful tax-paying citizens sometime,” Kagen said.
Daddy: Hey Little Johnny, what do you want to be when you grow up?
Little Johnny: I want to be a taxpayer and have the […]
Sen. Barack Obama probably doesn’t mind the attention from Obama Girl, but he’s sees it as stressful on his family:
Sen. Obama, D-Ill., said he knows the video was meant to be lighthearted, but he wasn’t smiling when asked about it in an interview with The Associated Press.
“I guess it’s too much to ask, but you […]
The flaming Lefty Janeane Garofalo will be starring in the next season of 24 injecting some controversy and buzz:
The political left and the political right are going to meet on Fox’s “24″ this coming season.
Actress-comedian Janeane Garofalo, an outspoken liberal, is set to co-star on the conservative-leaning real-time drama, whose co-creator/executive producer Joel Surnow jokingly […]
There won’t be any more jokes about Howard Dean, M.D. and the powerful hurricane sharing his name. This storm is too deadly and destructive to make any more jokes. After blasting past Jamaica Dean slammed into Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula.
There is actually some good news:
Dean’s path was a stroke of luck for Mexico: It made landfall […]
