Programming Note: Election night coverage
Oct 27, 2008 Blog News, In The News, New York State, Politics
My friend Alex (link when I can confirm it) and I will be planning to liveblog election results on our respective blogs as we get them on Tuesday night, November 4. My coverage will not be starting until 10-ish PM EST*, as I will be busy as a Monroe County election inspector until at least 9:30 PM (New York polls close at 9 PM).
*That is EST, not EDT. Daylight Saving Time in the US and Canada ends this Sunday, November 2. Extra hour of sleep Saturday night!
Where was this John McCain…
Oct 16, 2008 Politics, Teh Funny, Videos
…during the debates, and, oh, I don’t know, the rest of the campaign?
Hilarious. MORE LIKE THIS PLEASE.
Election ’08: ACORN and the MSM
Oct 9, 2008 In The News, Politics
My friend Dave writes on the hosiery-thin explanation ACORN gives for the registration irregularities showing up among the voters they register:
ACORN “blamed inefficiency and lack of resources for problems such as being unable to spot duplicate voter-registration cards†– so let’s run it against my super-obvious, way-too-easy litmus test: If ACORN’s intentions are noble – sign people up to vote, no matter what – then why is the fraud only happening in swing states? You’d think it would be happening all over the place, because homeless and low-income folks (ACORN’s target audience) in all 50 states should be getting out to the polls, right? Isn’t this about helping people to exercise their rights?
It’s a simple, easy test – and it would seem to speak volumes about the nobility of ACORN’s intentions. Are they really altruistically trying to “get out the vote†among the underprivileged and undereducated? We’ve got plenty of them here in New York, but you don’t see (or, at least my Google searching doesn’t see) any fraudulent activities here. But The Empire State is solidly in the blue – no need to falsify records to achieve the desired result here. But the so-termed “battleground†states? They’re covered.
Pretty simple, no?
You’d think voter irregularities fraud would be all over the news…Â but I suppose the mainstream media, too, may be a little one-sided (via Confederate Yankee):
As you might have heard, I am covering the McCain/Palin appearance today. At the media breakfast at the Pfister Hotel about an hour ago, you would simply not believe the vicious, nasty conversation I just overheard between several “elite” media types from the McClatchey news service, AP, and a couple of other sources I didn’t quite catch.
Over the course of just a few minutes, I heard that “Sean Hannity gives Dick Cheney the best head of his life,” and that he and Lou Dobbs are “mean-spirited sycophants,” and that McCain himself is “angry” and “crusty. One even recalled a recent campaign event at which Sarah Palin autographed a supporter’s Bible, prompting this “objective” journalist to remark “these people terrify me.”
And this was just in the span of a 10 minute conversation! I simply cannot believe that these are the people entrusted to cover the McCain/Palin campaign fairly and accurately. I have never before wanted to do a show like yours quite as badly as I do right now–so that I can expose these people for who they really are: unabashed, unashamed partisans whose callous, bitter attitude towards conservatives very clearly permeates their work.
And one wonders why I take MSM coverage of, well, anything, with a grain shaker of salt.
Ask Me Weekend #7: Turn on the tube
Oct 5, 2008 Ask Me Weekend
Wait am I too late? Bugger, well I’m asking anyway!
What new or returning TV show are you most looking forward too?
Nope, not too late. I was looking forward to Heroes, Terminator, NCIS and The Unit, along with The Big Bang Theory, How I Met your Mother and The Amazing Race, and am looking forward to 24 and Lost coming back in January. As far as new shows, I’m liking Fringe, Gary Unmarried and Knight Rider so far.
One show I was looking forward to returning was Cane, starring Jimmy Smits. Didn’t find out until a week or two ago that it got cancelled back in May. 
Ask Me Weekend #7: Dodging the question
Oct 5, 2008 Ask Me Weekend
Why do an ask me weekend if your not going to answer?
– K4
It wasn’t intentional. Got a little behind on the Internets. I’m tryin’, here! 
Ask Me Weekend #7: Money, money… yeah, yeah…
Oct 5, 2008 Ask Me Weekend
So now that you are married, who’s going to control the finances?
– k4
Since we’re in different countries for a while, keeping our existing separate finances makes the most sense. This is something else that’ll be revisited when we’re both living in one country.
Ask Me Weekend #7: Priorities
Oct 5, 2008 Ask Me Weekend
Now that you are married, do you notice any differences in the way you think, feel, or care about anything that was important to you as a non-married man?
– Matt F.
It’s weird, really. It should feel different, but it doesn’t yet, in large part because, due to the immigration process, we don’t yet live together. No doubt things’ll change when she does. Ask me again then.
BTW I’m Voting McCain/Palin
Oct 5, 2008 Cool Links, Politics, Videos
I’m more libertarian than conservative, so I’m not 100% in agreement with Alfonzo here, but he’s got the majority of this spot on.
(Very belated Ask Me Weekend answers coming shortly.)
Pink for October 2008
Oct 5, 2008 Brainwaves
As we have the past two years, Digital Brainwaves has turned Pink for October. Check out pinkforoctober.org for more details, and to learn more about Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
