January 10, 2008
The Grit Off
Things are going to get plumb wacky the next month:
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Darth Rove on the New Hampshire Primary
in this morning's Journal Online. Read it.
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January 09, 2008
"I found my own voice."
Unfortunately, her own voice was saying "Sarah Connor" The look on Kyle's face was the same one as on Brian Williams last night. They keep an enemies list that makes Richard Nixon's look like a Girl Scout cookie order sheet. Today I pay the price for failing to learn how to splice clips properly, interlacing this clip with the one above.
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January 08, 2008
I think I'll be the only honest political science professor who will admit the truth: WTF??????
The Clintons man, I tell ya, it's like a Max Brooks Zombie book with these people. And I'll be the first to admit that this morning I was the "What the hell we supposed to do ya moron?" dude this morning, predicting a general election blowout for the forces of light. So here's to you, John McCain: run with this as your campaign theme in South Carolina and I'm your man. Let's do it!Posted by: Steve-O at 09:27 PM | Comments (14) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
Count on us to highlight the really important news . . .
Princess Buttercup drops Spicoli, via Special Agent Bedhead.
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Wasn't this a scene in Bob Roberts?
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Uggh. screw the brave new world, matey
I've spent the morning dicking around on my facebook page, trying to set up a page for my courses for the spring term. If anyone has any suggestions on how to add applications to a group page I'd appreciate any insights. Thanks.
(What I'm trying to do is be able to post document attachments, either pdfs or .doc files, as well as urls etc with a minimum of rooting stuff back to my regular page).
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Line of the day
"Give me a break. This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I've ever seen. ... But the idea that one of these campaigns is positive and the other is negative when I know the reverse is true and I have seen it and I have been blistered by it for months is a little tough to take. Just because of the sanitizing coverage that's in the media doesn't mean the facts aren't out there."Desparate, moi? It's almost as if there's some type of large, vast perhaps, conspiracy on the part of the press to get ol' Bill...
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Talk about stepping on the Washington News Cycle
Joe Gibbs announcing his resignation/retirement today?
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High-larious
Gloria Steinem goes off on a wicked rant about how everyone's being mean and piling on Hillary in the NYT today: what's particularly hilarious is the way she taps into the olde Elizabeth Cady Stanton rant about how manifestly unfair the fifteenth amendment was by giving the vote to black men before the much more deserving white women.
She accidently steps on her thesis with this backhanded slap, though:That’s why the Iowa primary was following our historical pattern of making change. Black men were given the vote a half-century before women of any race were allowed to mark a ballot, and generally have ascended to positions of power, from the military to the boardroom, before any women (with the possible exception of obedient family members in the latter).But I guess the exit thought is that Gloria Steinem is still alive: who knew?
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It will be ugly and it will be dirty
She Who Must Not Be Named will go negative, first through surrogates, then with leaked stories courtesy of private investigators, and finally it will be by SWMNBN herself. As her "inevitable" candidacy goes down the drain, she will finally go Algore-blame her politcal handlers, take over the day to day operation of her campaign, and "let 'er rip". All will see her for who she truly is-this will be a dream come true for her acolytes and critics alike. It will truly be something to behold.
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All Eyes On The Granite State
Six months ago, I said John McCain had almost no chance of winning the Republican nomination. I stand by that statement. He may win NH, barely. But a NH win is no indication of solid support among the GOP voters. In 2000, McCain beat Bush handily. But his margin of victory was due to independent voters who were allowed to vote in the primary (a policy which I, to this day, don't fully understand or agree with).
NH prides itself on its independence and likes to turn the conventional wisdom on its ear. But unaffiliated voters will be energized by the prospect of making a bigger impact in the Democrat race. I expect they'll break for Obama today in greater numbers than McCain anticipated. At the end of the day, I see McCain just edging Romney. It won't be enough to derail Romney's campaign because of his (seemingly) unlimited financial resources. And it won't be enough to make McCain the clear front-runner. In other words, tomorrow the race on the GOP side will still be muddled. Huckabee will likely pull up the rear in third place but that's not a given. NH voters may want to make a counter-statement to Iowa. Rudy's challenge at this point is to try and finish above Ron Paul. If he doesn't, it will undermine his wait until "Rapture Tuesday" strategy severely. So, here we go: McCain: 32%Romney: 30%
Huckabee: 13%
Giuliani: 13%
Paul: 8%
Thompson: 4%
Hunter: 0% As for the Dems, I expect Obama to win by single digits (6-8%). Edwards will be third. At this point, Edwards will be hoping for a two-man race by the time SC roles around. Will She Who Must Not Be Named throw in the towel or fight on? Stay tuned...
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January 07, 2008
Shocked!
Gee, Ohio State getting blown out in the college football "title" game? Who could've anticipated that?
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Our Little Debutante
While I was gone, Mrs. LMC commenced potty training for our three-year old daughter, known to the post chief of staff as Our Little Debutante. Our Little Debutante developed a disturbing habit of ditching her diaper whenever it gets full, wherever she is. As soon as I notice she is "going commando" the race is on to find the diaper before the dog gets to it. Today, I noticed she had just taken it off and asked her to hand it to me. She was at the top of the stairs and yours truly was at the bottom-Our Little Debutante responded by launching the damn thing at me. If this keeps up, the only prom dress she will wear will be made of duct tape.
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Cashmere Mafia: B-School Babes on Steroids
This series premiered last night and stars LMC fav Lucy Liu. It is the aimed at the chick set and follows the comings and goings of four business school grads with the predictable emotional carnage. The plot twist was the introduction of the prospect of lesbian experimentation with one of the four, something you would expect from a series about to go down the drain. One wonders what will be on next week to top that.
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Why I love the American legal system, Monday Division
Major League Baseball could face a class-action lawsuit from former minor leaguers who believe they were denied a fair shot at making the majors because of steroids in the game. Ex-St. Louis Cardinals farmhand Rich Hartmann told the New York Daily News he is considering filing the lawsuit, and has support from former teammates. "Was I cheated of my dreams of a big-league career?" Hartmann said in Sunday's Daily News. "I don't know. But I do know there were thousands of guys who were right on the doorstep between 1990 and 2005 and they were cheated because they didn't use steroids." Hartmann, now a 35-year-old New York banker, was a 26th-round draft choice of the Cardinals in 1994. He impressed at Class A level but lasted only a couple of seasons before he quit after an arm injury. Although he never made it close to the majors, he still feels he was denied a chance to move through the minor leagues and show what he could do.My advice to you, Mr. Hartmann, is to marry Timothy Busfeld's sister, buy an Iowa farm on a huge mortgage, and plow over half the corn to build a baseball field. Then you'll have your chance to play in the majors... Meanwhile, I'm going to file a suit against Lorne Michaels because my refusal to imbibe copious amounts of coke, tequila, and Mt. Dew cost me my chance to be the weekend update anchor on SNL. That, and the lack of major league talent.
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Movie Review
Idiocracy (2006)
A guy and gal with average to low intelligence are cryogenically stored in a suspended state for what is supposed to be a year-long experiment by the military. Unforeseen circumstances take over, however, and the pair awaken 500 years in the future. They find that due to the worldwide over-population of idiots, and the general degradation of culture, they are the smartest people alive. The United States is headed by former professional wrassler and p*on film star, President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho. A single Costco covers an entire county, and shoppers can get everything there, including a law degree. Emergency room triage consists of a panel of graphical buttons designed for illiterate clerks to push so that recorded diagnoses blare over loudspeakers. For The Onion’s A.V. Club, Nathan Rabin wrote “A perfectly cast Luke Wilson stars as a quintessential everyman who hibernates for centuries and wakes up in a society so degraded by insipid popular culture, crass consumerism, and rampant anti-intellectualism that he qualifies as the smartest man in the world. Corporations cater unashamedly to the primal needs of the lowest common denominator—Starbucks now traffics in handjobs as well as lattes—and the English language has devolved into a hilarious patois of hillbilly, Ebonics, and slang. Idiocracy's dumb-ass dystopia suggests a world designed by Britney Spears and Kevin Federline, a world where the entire populace skirts the fine line separating mildly retarded from really fucking stupid, and where anyone displaying any sign of intelligence is derided as a fag.” Its lean-over-your-knees-and-gasp-for-air funny, but once it was over I remembered a real-life brush with Idiocracy I had a few years back. My employer contacted a government-run program for at-risk youth to have local disadvantaged teens work during the summer in our building. In order to make sure we, the employers, could work “effectively” with the teens, we were required to attend a day of government sponsored training. The trainer at one point during the day advised us that we were not to “use big words” when speaking to our future employees as this might cause them to have a crisis of self-esteem while in our care. Ladies and gentlemen – I had to literally grip the sides of my chair and bite my tongue in order to prevent myself from launching from my seat to interrogate this .GOV flunky as to when and how she had decided that talking down to people was a blessing to those so graced and a warm, longed-for reassurance of equality among morons. But I’ve begun to rant . . . I’m warning you now – if you have no sense of humor this movie will offend the monocle right off your face. A woman so PC she assuredly uses only one square of t.p. per potty trip told me about this movie, yet it is one of the most anti-pc films I’ve seen . . . . perhaps ever. Advertising in this future version of Umerica has devolved to “If you don't smoke Tarryltons... Fuck You!” The Violence Channel and the Masturbation Channel are two of the most popular on air in the year 2505. But I laughed harder than I remember laughing for years. And 24 hours later throw-away lines and scenes are still making me chuckle.Posted by: Chai-Rista at 04:19 PM | Comments (22) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
"It's Very Personal For Me"
She Who Must Not Be Named tears up a bit at the prospect of losing.
Full victim mode: ON. The internal polls must really, really be bad for her. I almost feel sorry for her. That's a lie, I really don't.Posted by: Gary at 01:58 PM | Comments (18) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
Happy Birthday, Col. Deering!
On this day in 1950, Erin Gray was born.
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This day in Clinton History, what a difference a decade makes department
January 7, 1998: "Lewinsky files an affidavit in the Jones case in which she denies ever having a sexual relationship with President Clinton."
January 7, 2008: Drudge Report top headline reports battle in Clinton inner circle over whether Hillary will drop out of the race after losing in New Hampshire. Caveats, yadda. Still, I'm stunned about how quickly the engine has fallen out of the Clinton juggernaut. Yips! from Gary:January 7, 2008 - is about the time that I got the serious inclination to switch party affiliations from Democrat to "none". As it happened I moved to another town that summer and that's what I did when I registered to vote in the new town. Has that really been ten years? Sheesh.
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