In the News Archive
Reading the newspapers.
In the News
- I live in a new urbanist neighborhood in the bay area, so I am biased on the subject, but it seems that my hometown (and the surrounding Buffalo region) is having a difficult time accepting the concept of walkable communities, which is a shame. – Hillary Clinton won California — somewhat handily — in [...]
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- Listening to Bush, McCain and the republican talk machine, the surge is “working,” however April has been “the deadliest month [for U.S. forces] since September.” – The president has received a stay-of-execution (of sorts) with the report that the economy grew at 0.6% in the first quarter, and did not contract. – And the [...]
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- President Bush has reached another new low: 31 percent approval. “Bush’s approval rating five years ago, at the start of the Iraq war, was 71 percent, and that 40-point drop is almost identical to the drop President Lyndon Johnson faced during the Vietnam War.“ – With Michigan and Florida not counting, it will be [...]
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- While one family was torn apart and a political future was torn down with the devastating Eliot Spitzer news, gutless white-collar criminals danced in the street, or more matter-of-factly, Wall Street day-traders applauded on the trading room floor. – Instead of skewering Bush and his administration, Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment tonight will focus on [...]
In the News… 2008.
- Barack Obama will be endoresed by former GOP Senator Lincoln Chafee. Will Hillary Clinton find someone on the other side of the aisle? Maybe Joe Lieberman. – Clinton has substantial leads in Ohio and Pennsylvania. If Clinton sweeps the big states — California, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas (not including Illinois) [...]
In the News… California.
- This is what life, er, politics, is all about. A new poll in California shows “Hillary Clinton with a very narrow three-percentage point lead over Barack Obama.“ – After watching last night’s GOP debate, you would think that the primary will be a referendum on Reagan’s legacy. By the way, why don’t the democrats [...]
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- I guess I can kiss my future television career goodbye because I find “Fuck Notre Dame, fuck Touchdown Jesus, and fuck Jesus,” hilarious. In fact, I’m going to use that one tomorrow at work. – Interesting (and ballsy) move by the vice-president. On the same day it is reported that the widespread belief that [...]
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- Chuck Norris doesn’t do push-ups. Chuck Norris pushes the earth down. But he may also be hurting Muke Huckabee’s campaign because “ Chuck Norris is great at attracting attention–but he’s lousy at actually convincing people to vote for Huckabee.“ – Mitt Romney is giving up on South Carolina, and heading to Nevada. A sound [...]
In the News… Late Night Edition.
Kids, do not do this at home; stay in school. – Obama may find enough support in New York to make the state competitive, possibly giving Hillary a run for her money in a state she hoped that she would not have to spend too much money. Hillary losing New York would almost be as [...]
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- The latest issue with same-sex marriage… same-sex divorce. One in every two. – The best new law of the new year: In California, it is now illegal to “smoke with a child under 18 in the car – whether the vehicle is in motion or not.” That is a good first step; now to [...]
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I’m drunk as hell… on Christmas cheer. – I dig Apple and all, but my guess is that their offering of movie downloads, a natural market extension for the iTunes service, will not “kill” Netflix. (Wal-Mart has dropped its rival service.) Why are tech writers so hung up on finding “killers” in the marketplace? – [...]
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It has been too long. – Tom Tancredo, the most racist of the GOP contenders (and that is saying something), has decided to drop-out of the race. I guess polling at 0.05% is a bit discouraging. – The EPA administrator, which — in the Bush White House — has become something of an impish position, [...]
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- An NFL franchise in Toronto would mean the end of the Buffalo Bills. – The word on Fred Thompson before he jumped into the race was that he’s lazy. Well, it’s been confirmed. “[Thompson's] own aides and advisers acknowledge privately that there are days when he seems disinterested in running for president at all.“ [...]
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The Friday edition. – I usually don’t have respect for murderers, besides OJ Simpson (he is just so lovable in those Naked Gun films), but one has to respect the audacity of Scott Peterson’s request to collect on his wife’s life insurance policy. I really need to go to law school to take advantage of [...]
In the News… Friday.
Maybe once a week. – Your tax dollars at work. FEMA is doing their own reporting. – The Senate and House are looking to extend a mindless moratorium on internet access taxes. People with high-speed connections are expected to rejoice, knowing they will not have to pay an additional dollar or two on their bill. [...]
In the News… the 2008 GOP Nomination.
- Rudy Giuliani, GOP frontrunner for president, circa 1996: “I’m not the most partisan of Republicans.” Hmm, that’s what I thought, but now he’s claiming to be all crazy and shit. – The ghosts of the 2000 Supreme Court decision continue to haunt… In 2002 [Al Gore] warned that if we invaded Iraq, ‘the resulting [...]
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I wish I knew how to quit you. – Bill Richardson has been a strong fourth-place candidate in the deep democratic field, and he is now closing in on third place, held by John Edwards. In my opinion, the third- and fourth-place candidates are the strongest in the field. Obama is young and exciting, and [...]
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It begins. – Bush’s coalition of the willing is leaving in droves. “As of Tuesday, it stood at 20 nations and roughly 11,400 soldiers.“ – God bless the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco. If it weren’t for the liberals, this country would have been stolen long ago. – I would like to use the word [...]
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It has been awhile. And my ass hurts. – The greatest republican president (no, Lincoln doesn’t count) on presidential aspirant Fred Thompson: “He’s dumb as hell.” I hope they cryogenically froze Nixon, just like Disney. – Hillary’s everyone-gets-a-401k-plan idea is good, but her baby bond idea was even better. – The Bush administration’s decision to [...]
In the News… Muck.
- A bug in the newest release of Microsoft Excel leads to a computation error: 850 x 77.1 = 100,000. (Note: I use Excel a lot.) -Rahm Emanuel on Bush’s promised veto of an expansion of child health coverage: “Two hundred billion dollars more for Iraq — and $35 billion for kids is labeled excessive [...]
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