I said I was going cold turkey on election news, but normal people don’t routinely get up early on Sunday’s to watch Meet the Press so I thought I’d report the tasty clip of Colin Powell explaining his rationale for endorsing Barack Obama this morning:
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Obligatory final debate post
Harry Shearer on the sound a possum makes when tasered
Husband sent me this amusing clip, wherein Robert Wright and Harry Shearer discuss feline Obama versus possum Mccain.
Wednesday, wherein I deftly combine the Obama New Yorker cover and iphone references into one handy post, just to get it all over with
Granted, I hadn’t had any coffee yet when I saw this headline, but I don’t think that’s a particularly good excuse. My thoughts were, in this order, although not actually enumerated as such in my head:
1. “I can’t believe they used such a derogatory term in this headline.”
2. “Using the word “claimed” casts doubt, like they couldn’t believe a bunch of Southerners could do such a thing.”
3. “Oh. Wait.”
4. “I have just relinquished all right to ever teach courses on the history of computing or cyberculture ever again, at any level.”
The headline? “Crackers claim iPhone 3G hack.”
I know. I know. This is the kind of thing one should just keep to oneself, but it made me laugh.
I don’t have anything else about the Obama New Yorker cover that hasn’t already been said – and said much better – on the Daily Show:
The New yorker cover. You know the one.
Andrea Plaid joined Culture Kitchen just in time to post the thought-provoking, “Oh look! Hipster bigotry manifests itself at the New Yorker.”