nosflow gets it right. He's doomed!
I think I fixed it, but I'm on my iPad so everything is a pain.
As of now, the front page link is working. Sometimes my changes revert, so speak up if it stops working.
|| While the PTB are working that out, folks can entertain themselves with this evisceration of Justice Scalia.|>
On the one hand, this is basically baby kissing designed to appeal to the [nerd/geek/computer people/whatever you guys are] demographic. I mean, the answers he gives are just typical meaningless politician speak.
On the other hand, that at least means that he recognizes and is courting the [nerd/geek/computer people/whatever you guys are] demographic, and acknowledgement counts for something. So, that's something. Visiting a Sons of Italy lodge is political theater, but at least it means that a politician is courting Italian Americans.
Maybe that's too grouchy. I'm feeling grouchy.
He did better than Woody Harrelson.
Not at being on Cheers he didn't.
Can Obama dunk on">http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8266665/an-oral-history-ron-shelton-basketball-comedy-white-men-jump">on a regulation hoop?
Shelton: A lot of it was completely corrupt. Everyone was betting on everything. The place had gotten a little dirty, and I was part of it. The scene at the used-car lot where they stop in the night and Woody says he could dunk? Woody actually bet Wesley that he could dunk it. Wesley kept going off to his trailer and we kept lowering the basket. By the time the bet got high enough, Woody slammed it. Wesley didn't realize that we lowered the basket a foot.
I haven't been watching the RNC. Did Ann Romney seriously tell Puerto Ricans, "You people really know how to party"?!
Almost. She actually said, "You people really know how to party, but we built it."
All I've seen of the RNC was a portion of Rand Paul's speech earlier this evening, in which he said that it was not the case that roads make private business possible, but the other way around. Huh.
I watched about three minutes of the self-styled "Catholic deerhunter," which was all I could stomach. Romney I would never ever vote for, but I guess I can't really work up an active hate for the guy. But Ryan truly makes my skin crawl.
Ryan trying to distance himself from his hardcore devotion to Ayn Rand (if I say something about 'support for our seniors' and 'caring for our most vulnerable,' maybe they won't notice...) reminds me of a smartass fratboy pleading with his (liberal, natch) professor for an extension on his term paper (if I say something about how much I enjoyed her lecture on the struggle for female suffrage ['I mean, like, that was just solid, Professor. Like I really, you know, like, learned something'] maybe she'll cut me a break...).
Gaah, the Reddit up-or-out threading is even more annoying than usual on that AMA. All the responses to questions are hidden, none of the "load more comments" links work, so the top level is just non sequiturs and bullshit attention seeking.
reddit's fixed now everyone; it's cool. the president just broke it accidentally for a while.
I mean, the answers he gives are just typical meaningless politician speak.
Four years ago people jumped on me when I mildly remarked that they shouldn't be surprised and disappointed at Obama talking like a professional politician, because he is a professional politician, and trained in Chicago too.
Seems like some people still don't get it. It remains the case that if you're going to have a pro-business hyper-capitalist president, which you are come what may, you could do a lot worse.
One phrase of William Safire's that stuck with with me over the years was his explanation of why he could support Bush in general and oppose the Patriot Act - that he planned to take what he could get and yell for more. I wonder if this could be conveyed on a poster - "Vote Obama and Yell for Better", or something.