With the race for the White House still pretty tight, it's about time for an October surprise, wouldn't you say? Here are a few of my top pics for Campaign 2008's eleventh-hour game-changers. Some would tip the scale to the right, others to the left, but all would be at least a little surprising... 10. Animatronic Bin Laden Head releases a hearty congratulations to the American people for being about to elect a Secret Muslim to the White House. 9. Ahmadinejad changes his name to Cody... Read Full Story
Pure excitement in a bowl. Work relationships are weird. I like the people I work with, but you know how work is. If you want to get anything done, you have to establish boundaries. There are places you don't want to go with coworkers, no matter how much you adore them. Thankfully, healthy work relationships don't require the degree or kinds of disclosure healthy personal relationships do. After all, when the closing bell rings on Friday afternoon, nobody likes long goodbyes. The... Read Full Story
Well golly gee willickers! That was a heck of a debate, eh? Bless their little hearts! One of the characters on stage last night reminded me of a female Ned Flanders in overdrive. "Hidely-doodly, Gwen! Joe! Mom! Dad! And all those third graders at Gladys Wood Elementary School! You get extra credit for watching the debate!" Palin, like most charismatic personalities, feeds off the adulation of her fans, but it was surprising to me how flat her performance was without any... Read Full Story
Let me save you the time it'll take to read Friday's headlines: The debate was a draw. That's what they're all going to say. Just so you know. I mean, these are the same people who judged the second debate between Kerry and Bush -- the infamous "wanna buy some wood?" debate -- a toss-up. Today the bla-bla-blagosphere is full of advice, not for Sarah Palin, who has nothing to worry about, the standard for her is so abysmal, but for Joe Biden, who can only win the debate by resigning... Read Full Story
Church, from Sargent's Triumph of Religion, at the Boston Public Library. I was reading this morning about Bill Maher's new documentary, Religulous, when I came upon this intriguing tidbit: [E]ven among disbelievers, 21 percent of atheists and 55 percent of agnostics [polled by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life] said they believed in God. Now, what do you make of that? Of the disbelievers, 21 percent believe. What does it mean for an atheist to believe in God anyway? Maher... Read Full Story
There's a longish list in my head of internet ads I see pretty much every day that I sorta wish would just go away. On it are the LowerMyBills.com "Jive-Dancing Woman in Gray Pantsuit"...
...and the out-of-season "Jive-Dancing Santa..." ...and the "Jive-Dancing Alien"... ...and, well, really any iteration of the LowerMyBills.com "Jive-Dancing" avatar. Also, not a big fan of cleft palate porn here... ... even for a good cause. Sorry. And those little shooting galleries, or the... Read Full Story
Man, this whole Wall Street deal's a real downer, innit? I hope you all know: whatever's going to happen is going to happen. Let go and let GOP. After all, it's been in the works for awhile. No matter who you believe, the roots of the current "crisis" go deep. The right blames it on the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977, another way of saying it's not the rich white guys' fault, but the poor black guys'. The left favors Reagan-era deregulation of banking and investment industries... Read Full Story
