I wish the FCC didn’t have such a prudish objection to this sort of thing; you can watch the news for a long time and never catch this live, and that’s a shame – by far the most interesting thing Sue Simmons ever did, for example… http://gawker.com/390156/top-ten-angry-on+camera-meltdowns?autoplay=true
Archive for May, 2008
Network News
Posted in Television on May 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ex-Candidate
Posted in Hillary Clinton, Politics on May 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Good article from the Washington Post. I found this the most damning, as it encapsulates all the needless spin that makes the Clintons so disgusting: After an appropriate wait, she steps from the plane and pretends to wave to a crowd of supporters; in fact, she is waving to 10 photographers underneath the airplane’s wing. [...]
Golf?
Posted in George W. Bush, Military, Politics on May 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Golf. That’s right, when the President of the United States saw the human toll of the invasion of Iraq his reaction was not to pull out of Iraq, or redeploy troops differently, or introduce some sort of benchmarks or metrics for the prosecution of the conflict, or send more armor to the region, or raise [...]
France Has a Large Muslim Population
Posted in Foreigners, Politics on May 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yes, it is “pretty clear” that the Democrats are focused on nothing other than creating a United States of France. Why else would they support such massive investments in nuclear power and cheesemaking? However, it seems a bit less clear that the hallmark of France is “more litigation”; the Napoleonic system is way too distracted [...]
Bombay Dreams
Posted in Foreigners on May 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m all in favor of 25 stories worth of personal space (even if six are tied up in parking, when you know damn well that the only way anyone is getting in or out of the place is by helicopter), and as a proportion of net worth this seems to be a fairly modest investment. [...]
