Even grading on the “and yet the majority voted for W again in 2004″ curve, I just can’t believe that voters are as dumb as John McCain seems to think. McCain Accuses Press of ‘Gotcha Journalism’. Well, duh. You chose one of the worst possible running mates and almost every time she opens her mouth she says something that is moronic, if not also utterly false. No “gotcha” techniques required.
Category Archives: politics
Tina Fey as Sarah Palin, part 2
I wasn’t going to post this because I figured everyone in the Free World had seen it, but we just went to a rather crowded gallery opening where it seemed that more had missed it than seen it, so just in case:
The king of Ireland. Priceless.
National book festival
I don’t think I should go spread pestilence at the National Book Festival, especially since I barely have the energy to stand up. I wanted to go and at least hear Tony Horwitz. Oh well, another time. Right now I need to go bleach out my brain because someone’s twisted imagination went into overdrive at Obama’s reference to McCain’s “orgy of spending” and the rest of us are paying the price.
rate the debates
Free Press has launched Rate the Debates, which they’re describing as “a citizen-driven guide to better media coverage of the issues that matter most.” It’s an interesting experiment.
I’ve signed up, although this will interfere with my plan to turn the Vice-Presidential debate into a drinking game wherein one takes a drink every time Palin or Biden start an answer with the word “look.” It’s for the best, did you watch Biden’s last visit to Meet the Press? He said “look” so many times I couldn’t stop laughing. Not good, Joe, not good at all. (page 4 alone of the transcript has 11 looks!)
Center for American Progress & Surveillance at Nevin Kelly, but not TwinTech
Thursday’s TwinTech event was a smash hit. I know this because it was reported as such in the paper and by associates who went. Apparently, I could get away with saying I know this because I was there, because three people have sent me messages telling me that they wanted to say hi but couldn’t get across the room before I disappeared. Stranger still, someone described what “I” was wearing, and it was in fact what I was wearing that day. Well, on the upside, if there are two of me maybe now I can get more work done. I just wish I’d keep me informed of what I’m doing when I’m out flouncing around at networking events without me.
I should have some coffee before I try to follow that thought any further. Maybe I’ll just back up a bit.
Last Thursday I went to the Internet Advocacy Roundtable event, Here Come the Millennials, Politics Beware, at the Center for American Progress Action Fund’s. Authors Morley Winograd and Michael Hais presented on their new book, Millennial Makeover: MySpace, YouTube, and the Future of American Politics, followed by an hour of interesting discussion with the audience.
After that, I went to Nevin Kelly’s gallery for the opening of the show Sondra “not my sister” Arkin and Ellyn Weiss curated, called Under Surveillance.
For some time we have watched with concern, anger, even fear, as the area of personal privacy available to each of us shrinks due to the technology and the license now given both to the government and private corporations to watch and listen to us. Under Surveillance presents the responses of twelve very different artists to this fact. Curated by Ellyn Weiss and Sondra N. Arkin.
The opening had a good turnout and it was lovely to see old friends, but I was too tired to stay long and will have to go back another time to get a really good look at the art.
Info from the gallery’s blog:
The show is up until October 8, 2008, the gallery is located at 1517 U Street NW in Washington, DC.