Jim Rittenhouse's semidaily journal of news, commentary and reports
BBC: “The Labour candidate for Bootle on Merseyside has had the tip of his finger bitten off by a dog while out campaigning. Joe Benton, 77, was taken to hospital after the animal bit him as he pushed an election leaflet through a letter box. Mr Benton has been unable to vote for himself as [...]
YouTube: Mr Bean running on the Bean Party ticket does ‘I wanna Be Elected’ as a video. Especially for all those in the UK getting ready for next week’s election. And yes, I did take the Torygraph’s poll, and it suggested I’d vote for the UK Liberal Democrat party, for what that’s worth.
He’s expressing his rather strong opinions on how the Vancouver Olympics are a money pit in a downturn period, cutting off funding for other public things in favour of high-end expense for the Games. (NSFW re strong language)
The Bruce Schneier Action Figure! At $100, it’s a steal! Be the first on your block! Now, i’m just waiting for the RJ Johnson and Bill Roper Auctioneer Action figures…
My favorite conservative columnist, Daniel Larison, is hitting it on the head and out of the ballpark this morning about the mindless OMG’ing in the Beltway press and elsewhere about political dishonesty on national security issues. He brings up two main directions on this: if Group A is out of office, then Group B (who [...]
Michael Jackson commissioned fantasy art about himself that defies description; one of the pieces resembles a Communist Chinese propaganda poster with Comrade Michael leading the oppressed children of the world…just check out the pieces and imagine how much he spent on this stuff. I’m thinking of a Botticelli-like painting like that first one with Bernie [...]
http://bit.ly/6bT2Os (from the Newseum, possibly not good after tonight – front page of today’s Daily Herald) IL_DH (pdf of the page – big center layout of photos of the girls)
The local suburban daily newspaper, the Daily Herald, is reprinting the Newsweek story on the twins with different photos: http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=342760
http://www.newsweek.com/id/225492/page/1 The Power of Two: http://www.newsweek.com/id/225098 Photo gallery of the kids, etc. The Intro picture is particularly stunning. This has been in the works since spring. Newsweek came in with a Pulitzer-award winning photographer who was fresh from covering the White House and Obama and Bush to do the shots. The interviews mostly were around [...]
“Sarah Palin is a great friend to the bowling industry and we’re so proud and honored to welcome her as our keynote speaker at International Bowl Expo 2010,” said Steven Johnson, executive director of the BPAA. A bowling columnist writes: Politicians don’t seem to give a hoot about championing the great sport of bowling and [...]
(taken from the teabagger protest in DC this weekend) Lesson #1: Anyone who is not a Republican is not a Marxist. Really. Lesson #2: The last Czar in Russia gave up the throne in 1917, and the Russian Communists took over Russia in 1918; I don’t think you understand that there were no Czars in [...]
I have been listening to enough rants, hate and nonsense in the last year and a half to last me a lifetime or more, and I’ve been more than fed up with it all. But I started realizing that this sort of crud is endemic; uninformed people who choke off their sources of information to [...]
Thanks to Deb Geisler and John Scalzi, I can bravely point to an ad about major league baseball that doesn’t make me watch a sport I don’t care much about, but gets across a simple, semi-inspirational message that most everyone not in the NY metro area can get behind.
Various reports that the WPA wireless security systems have been broken pretty thoroughly, which is a big reason why my home wireless setup is top of the line on encryption. This is a problem because some older laptops won’t handle it, and in the *brief* time such laptops are around, I have to either come [...]