Someone me sent the following via email several days ago, thinking it was probably something I’d want to see. I think they thought it was funny, the idea that Illinois wants to get rid of Barack Obama. We went back and forth in email about it, and my correspondent thinks I jumped to the wrong conclusion about what’s going on in this little message. I’ve taken a couple of days to think it over, and I now agree that it’s not the “whisper campaign” kind of message, with a hidden message of racism, that I originally thought. It’s just a…
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Here’s a quick update on the Floor Project From Hell: We’re almost done! Except we’ve had scope creep! We started laying out the floor after it acclimated on Friday. It’s now Monday; yes, we’re slow, but we hit a minor snag and we’re now setting up for a big finish. Which involves totally repainting the room in a slightly darker color. I’d gone through hell patching about a zillion screw-anchor holes in that room 5 years ago – but there were a couple of dings and places I hadn’t done a very good job. First of all, we knew we…
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The hysterico-pundit wing of the GOP has been accusing ACORN (via its contractors) of fraudulently registering football teams and cartoon characters to vote. They see it as a vast left-wing conspiracy, but really it’s low-income contractors trying to defraud ACORN, because they get paid by the number of registrations they turn in. As has been pointed out repeatedly, Mickey Mouse isn’t going to show up to vote. It might throw off the statistics for total number of registered Democrats there are in each locality, but there’s little likelihood of any serious electoral fraud being committed. Now, here’s a twist: a…
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For the first time in its 161-year history, the Chicago Tribune endorses a Democrat for President, Barack Obama. As it happens, I prefer reading the Trib to the agressively blue-collar Sun-Times; never liked the latter papers rah-rah attitude toward Daley and other local pols. Also, their comics section sucks. Via Daily Kos: State of the Nation
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This just in via my sturdy Google Reader feed: Who do you want to vote for? Who do you want to represent our country on the world stage? Who is less scary? Who is more trustworthy? Who is more statesmanlike and leaderly? Who do you want taking that 3:00AM phone call? Who do you want the Football to follow around? Please. Vote for That One. Because a vote is a terrible thing to waste. CAPSHUNZ PLZZZ!!! “Give me all your hamsters, I’m staaaaaaarviiiiiingggggg!!!” Via » What’s Up with “Senator McTongueâ€? » The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century…
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Worth a listen for a chuckle: what if Joe the Plumber could unclog the economic mess? Imagining ‘Joe The Plumber: The Epic’ : NPR Sometimes that 15 minutes of fame turns into an hour. Satirists Bruce Kluger and David Slavin present the promo for a fictional epic called Joe the Plumber — it’s the story about the one man equipped to fix the nation’s plugged up economy.
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I was just telling my sister in an email about listening to this story about Obama’s political beginnings. He’s disappointed not a few progressives and reformers in Chicago for not taking on “Chicago Machine politics,” or from “getting along” just enough to get elected. But he’s inspired a whole lot of people, too. Sometimes surprisingly so. How Chicago Politics Shaped Obama : NPR He was a young politician who couldn’t win a congressional seat in his own neighborhood, and yet he was asking the state’s political kingmaker to back him for a statewide race. Furthermore, Obama wanted Jones to help…
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Hey, remember that floor project I’ve left unfinished for about, oh, four or five years? Well, this week and next week, we’re on our “staycation.” I get about 6 weeks of vacation a year, and this was the only time I could fit a two-week block in before the end of the year. And so we had decided that since we just did a big trip to England and Ireland (which I haven’t really blogged much about, but we did have a truly awesome time), we would not go anywhere and stay home, doing projects. One of which would be…
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You’d better hope I’m wrong. I’d heard that a remake of the classic SF TV series “V” was in the works, but take a look at this bizarre clip from YouTube someone put together. I went looking for more “poker tell” citations for the debate tonight, as the Chicago Trib had some in a slideshow, but somehow missed the many times McCain poked out his tongue. Actually, on this clip, he’s revealed as the first Iguana-American to be elected to the Senate and run for President. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/CIZLg_lmx10" width="425" height="344" wmode="transparent" /] See? Quite, quite creepy. Don’t let your hamsters…
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Oh, boy. Jet Airways/9W is the partner carrier of American/AA in India, and we use them a lot for flights to cities beyond Delhi and Mumbai. A LOT, akshully. But then, our main client is probably cutting back on the expensive “send the entire team to that small city in India for 6 weeks of training at the remote facility” trips, anyway. BBC NEWS | South Asia | Jet Airways lays off cabin crew India’s largest private airline Jet Airways has laid off 800 employees as it cuts flights amid soaring costs. The company said cabin crew hired for a…