To all the veterans, folks currently serving in the military, and their families, Happy Veteran’s Day. It isn’t much, and it’d be better if you, rather than a day that everybody else gets off, you got more pay and better treatment upon your return to civilian life, but it’s something I guess. As for me, I’ll be going in to work today, though I should have taken the day off, because it’s supposed to very nice and warm. But I get to start the day off with a visit to the dentist (this is going to go on for quite some time, too, as the massive number of fillings I have all need to be replaced, as do my two defective crowns. Plus he wants to replace the ones I’m missing, which I don’t think I can actually afford, but I’ll have to break that news to him later.
Jesse Jackson apparently told Soledad O’Brien that she doesn’t ‘count’ as a black teevee anchor. Soledad O’Brien is black? Not that I really care or have been paying attention, but I had no idea. I mean, I always thought she was pretty cute, but I never really gave her racial background any thought. I figured she was half Mexican, half Irish. Some day, maybe it won’t matter what flavor “news” people are, and we can judge them purely on how big of a twit they are (on a scale between, oh, I dunno, Edward R. Murrow and Matt “the rat” Lauer).
Exciting news on the toilet paper front (no, really!). Kimberly Clark is test marketing “tube free” toilet paper here in the Northeast. That’s right, with some special “winding” process, toilet paper rolls will no longer include those little tubes, reducing the amount of needless crap in the world. The bad news is you’ll need to go to Wally World (or its Big Box Brother, Sam’s Club) to get your, um, hands on it. If all goes well, you’ll be seeing tubeless paper towel rolls soon.
Well, I reckon I’d better get busy. I have to leave about a half hour early to make my dental date, so I better get going.
I love the smell of burning enamel in the morning.
Soledad has this annoying delivery. I’ve seen it referred to as grating, thin, high-pitched, and nasal but worse it sounds like she swallows her words as if she has a bunch of phlegm stick in the back of her mouth.
From the early days of MSNBC
featuring everyone’s favorite TWIT as Dev Null. I never got the impression the she liked working with Leo very much.
Oh, yea, an Afro-Cuban mother and an Australian-Irish father.
I never heard of Dev Null before this. I don’t have cable and this was before everything got spread via youtube immediately.
When MSNBC first started it was a little more involved in tech stuff and Soledad had a show called The Site on which Dev Null appeared almost daily. After Princess Diana was killed, MSNBC abandoned any tech content to go 24 hour news. I believe they did that whole show from SF.
I knew Dev from a while back and he married a friend of mine. He was in talk radio but got bumped when the repig PD at his radio station decided to replace him with a fledgling syndicated gas bag named Rush Limpaugh who had started up the I-80 in Sacramento. Later they also canned Peter B. Collins for being too librul. Eventually the station went all-sports.
Gail Collins has some interesting and of course funny things to say about W this morning but this is the paragraph that stood out to me:
David Kennedy of Stanford University theorized in a postelection Op-Ed in The Times that we’re reliving the late 19th-century Gilded Age, when all the presidents proved to be hapless, Congress switched back and forth madly as voters threw the bums out over and over again, and the country experienced a raft of critical problems and impending crises, combined with “abject political paralysis.â€
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/11/opinion/11collins.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
Personally, I’m looking forward to working until I drop dead with no social security and no Medicare.
When I’m 75, I’ll look back on these days and think, “ah, that President Obama. He wasn’t as bad as Bush.”
RE: The last two posts…..,
sounds about right to me :fustrate:
almost all politicians are 👿
Gee, PJ, sounds just like the good old days.
As the song says, “these are the good old days.”
I’m watching clips of ‘Bama on Olberman from 2007 making a very coherent case against tax-cuts for the rich- very moving then,
very moving now 🙁 for very different reasons
Tried to watch but my ‘stream’ is interrupted but what I have seen is thoroughly disheartening. I don’t think I much care anymore. He seems to stand for absolutely nothing.
Capitulation is not compromise.
I need some jokes for a stand up routine. Got any ideas?