Posts Tagged ‘Politics’
Tea Party Stewing Over Captain America Slight
Issue 602 of Captain America finds the title hero investigating a right-wing anti-government militia group called "the Watchdogs". Hoping to infiltrate the group, Captain America and his African-American sidekick The Falcon observe an anti-tax protest from a rooftop. The protesters depicted are all white and carry signs adorned with slogans [...]
Survey Says Red States Enjoy More Porn
States that vote more conservatively tend to consume more porn-- so says the study that Kiran Chetry explores on CNN. Anecdotally, having driven from New Orleans to Little Rock, I did drive through a lot of small and medium sized towns that had I high church to adult superstore ratio-- especially in Mississippi. The crazy thing was that they [...]
Favorite Quotes On the Obama Inauguration
Amid all the speeches and media commentary that will be bandied about today, I found these pretty amusing: CNN: What's it going to be like for you on Inauguration Day? Chris Rock: It'll be a cool day. It's weird. I've never watched an inauguration. I've never watched anyone get sworn in. You know, it's like Election Day and then you look up [...]
Carla Bruni Wins While President Sarkozy Is Poked
It’s a merry Christmas for French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his lovely wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy. The professional model and pop singer turned First Lady, was seeking 125,000 euros in court damages from Pardon, a fashion chain that sold purses emblazoned with a nude picture of her—without her permission. Last week a French court [...]
Obama Wins
It must be true. At 8:08pm Pacific time, Brit Hume is talking nice about the new president elect. I saw CNN call it. But it wasn't until Roger Ailes gave me the go ahead did I believe it was finally over. Karl Rove just called the Huxtables (yes, of the Cosby Show) America's First African American First Family. Good thing the [...]
CNN BBC Election Night
Network coverage of election: BBC America is comedy-fest featuring John Bolton going off on the staff. I think the phrase was "you are guests in our country." (Holly notes) CNN HD - What is all this crap on my screen? I can't find Wolf Blitzer. The graphics ate him. MSNBC - Why is is the electoral map on the ice rink? If they [...]
Put Me in Coach
I work for a living. How hard I actually work is debatable. I have never had the freedom of being self-employed, I've always worked for "the other man". This requires a great deal of patience since I am not a natural people person. More than once in my career I've wondered how some executives have made it as far as they have. Billionaire [...]
