Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Well, it’s happened. A near-sweep of the tossup states has made it a landslide for President-elect Barack Hussein Obama.
Keep reading
Monday, November 3, 2008
It is election day eve, and any other news in the world gets sent to the back pages. First we have a sterling example of why polls are absurd and only get more so as we get closer to an election. The Wall Street Journal has a new poll that shows Senator Obama’s lead over Senator McCain tightening while USA Today has a different poll with Obama’s lead growing. If you like polls but also like sanity, then head over to everyone new favorite blog FiveThirtyEight.com for a more comprehensive look at how the candidates are polling.
The Washington Post profiles the candidates field organizations. By all accounts the Democrats are destroying the Republicans in this often-overlooked field of the campaign but this article gamely does its best to give a sheen of respectability to what is a lackluster Republican field organization. For other takes on the ground game, check out this podcast and these articles.
If you are still undecided (and at this point, fuck you) both candidates have Op-Eds in the Wall Street Journal making their case one last time. Senator Obama’s Op-ed focuses on (surprisingly) change while Senator McCain focuses on what he is fighting for.
Bill Kirstol’s column in The New York Times is, to quote Jeff, “delightful,” I really can’t agree more. No matter what I say about him, there is a guy who loves his chosen role of cheerful warrior.
And just to keep it from being all politics, High School Musical 3 held onto the top spot at the box office this weekend, holding off Zach and Miri Make a Porno. Apparently, being Apatowish is not quite good enough to win at the box office. Also, I really couldn’t care less. The election is FREAKING TOMORROW.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
When I was younger, so much younger than today, I was all about the Men in Black movie, and especially the badass neuralizer. Just imagine my excitement and subsequent disappointment when I got a toy neuralizer in my Burger King Kids Meal, only to find out that my mom still remembered that I tried to microwave the cat.
In other words, I don’t blame the US military for investigating the use of “amnesia beams.” Supposedly the research is born out of attempts to treat Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, but clearly this isn’t working, because John McCain still won’t shut up about that POW camp.
Of course, while we wait for our military industrial complex to get their act together and release these gizmos to the unsuspecting public, the standard memory loss protocols apply: whisky, beer, rinse, repeat.
Monday, October 27, 2008
Welcome to the Wrapup, your new daily post that’s basically like that filter in your sink’s drain that catches all the junk and keeps it from ruining your disposal. That’s right, I’m here protecting the metaphorical disposal of the internets, giving you all these links that just don’t quite deserve a big fat post of their own. To begin:
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
You know it is a slow news day when the Washington Post leads off with a story about their new poll. Sure, it is the first Post-ABC poll since Obama secured the nomination, but you could have written about the US Open or something. The poll shows Obama with a 49%-45% lead among voters, but it is always important to remember that polls do nothing but capture a snapshot in time. If people bring it up at work, here are three factoids that you can cite to sound smart:
- Only 8 out of 10 Democrats support Obama for President – a quarter of those who said they favored Clinton over Obama for the nomination currently prefer McCain for the general election.
- 57 percent said McCain would continue to lead the country as Bush has and 38 percent said he would chart a new course. Compare that to the fact that 84% of the respondents said that the country is on the wrong track and you have a serious problem for McCain.
I doubt this actually changes anyone’s mind about anything, but Al Gore officially endorsed Obama last night. He did so using a 90-minute Powerpoint presentation that is expected to net him another Peace Prize. Some political observers are questioning whether he will be that active in campaigning for Obama since it became evident 20 minutes into his endorsement that he was just reusing his presentation from An Inconvenient Truth with the words “Climate Change” replaced by “John McCain.”
China has begun to lecture the United States on the status of our economy, a change from the glory days of us telling everyone how to live their lives. The Chinese economy, while growing at a massive rate, is mostly fueled by lead paint covered toys and misery.
That was some OUTSTANDING golf yesterday. Tiger Woods, in his first tournament back after having massive knee surgery, won the US Open in 91 holes. Tiger, the #1 ranked golfer in the world, finished the tournament tied with Rocco Mediate, ranked #158. There was an 18-hole playoff (that is why your office was so quite) and at the end of it the two were tied again. The tournament went to sudden death where Tiger won after Mediate missed a par putt on the Seventh hole. I was completely in the tank for the congenial and middle-aged Mediate, who played the best round of his golf of his life.
