{"id":1314,"date":"2009-03-05T06:50:48","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T11:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=1314"},"modified":"2009-03-05T08:21:33","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T13:21:33","slug":"old-man-twitter-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2009\/03\/05\/old-man-twitter-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Man Twitter Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember grumpy old grampa McCain, who couldn’t use a BlackBerry by himself and didn’t have a clue about the Intertubes? Well, the times they are a-changin’ I guess, and now gramps<\/a> is in a Twitter fight<\/a> with Oregon congressman Earl Blumenauer<\/a> over a measly $951,500 for the “Oregon Solar Highway<\/a>.” Apparently St. McCain doesn’t see the benefits of using highway right-of-way to generate solar power. Well, why would he? It’s not like Arizona gets much sunshine, right?<\/p>\n

Here’s a shocker: turns out bad marriages take a heavy toll on women<\/a>. Men? Not so much.<\/p>\n

Looks like fellow SU alum and current VP Joe Biden will be coming back to town to give the commencement address at the SU graduation in May<\/a>. He gave a very entertaining commencement address at the SU College of Law when I was working there (his second of three), and I expect his address in May will be equally fun to watch. <\/p>\n

Norm Coleman says he wants a new election in MN, but Harry Reid says “no way.”<\/a> If anybody actually gave a shit what Harry Reid says, I guess I’d feel better. <\/p>\n

Speaking of whores, everybody’s favorite patron of prostitutes (well, female prostitutes, anyway; Ted Haggard – the guy who prayed himself straight – is probably the overall #1), David Vitter, continues to champion family values, and is offering an amendment to the omnibus spending bill that would forbid the distribution of any public money to Planned Parenthood<\/a>. Because, hey, when you knock up your prostitute, she<\/em><\/strong> should do the right thing and raise your bastard child on her own (surprise, surprise, Senator Family Values voted against expanding SCHIP<\/a>, too). And no money for child care while she’s out walking the streets trying to keep a roof over their heads, either, damnit!<\/p>\n

Speaking of health care, looks like Barbara Bush is recovering nicely from heart surgery<\/a> (I was a bit surprised to hear she actually had one, personally). Ol’ Bar’s just as good looking at 83 as she was at 60. I’m just glad to know that Medicare covered all her bills at the Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center. \ud83d\ude44 I sure do hope she’s signed up for Part D, ‘cuz those meds can be awfully expensive.<\/p>\n

Speaking of expenses, time to get out there and earn some money to pay for mine. Have a good day, eh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember grumpy old grampa McCain, who couldn’t use a BlackBerry by himself and didn’t have a clue about the Intertubes? Well, the times they are a-changin’ I guess, and now gramps is in a Twitter fight with Oregon congressman Earl Blumenauer over a measly $951,500 for the “Oregon Solar Highway.” Apparently St. McCain doesn’t see […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}