Archive for August, 2008
why don’t you just wrap up the election in a pretty blue box?
and fedex it for special delivery on november 4. remember this story? i think it needs to be re-blogged as a reminder. this just in from the new york times:
that old windbag madonna kicked off her sticky & sweet tour in cardiff, wales and surprise surprise, got all political. a video sequence for her song [...]
who is their target demographic??
i’m hoping that cnn will take cue from this local tucson ad for it’s news/weather program and create a similiar ad for meterologist rob marciano, reynolds wolf and jacqui jeras. maybe they can use the new elvis and priscilla presley wedding dolls.
is it obama-biden or biden-obama?
for those of you who didn’t sign up for obama’s text message or those of you who live under a rock, joe biden was announced as obama’s pick for vp this weekend. biden, a senior senator from delaware from delaware and chairman of the senate committee on foreign relations, is believed to help pad the [...]
week in review: august 17-22
the weekend is finally here. the weather is heating up again, as are the politics leading up to the convention.
lots of interesting things happened this week:
the olympics events were made more special by matt and al before matt headed back to prepare for the big announcement and the conventions.
our #1 ally in the war [...]
"great journalism"
with the vp announcements just hours and days away and the convention just a few days away, both cnn and fox news have or will be airing specials on the two presidental candiates. i’m traveling so don’t have access to fox news but i found the below one minute compilation of the fox news special [...]
looks fun, yo
the olympics may have this, but they sure as hell didn’t have this: the world yo-yo contest held in florida july 31-august 2.
here are some interesting facts about yo-yoing and the contest:
the first contest was held in 1992
196 competitors showed up from 20 countries
the japanese sweep most events and are known for being precise
the americans [...]
one day you’re in, the next day you’re out
although i’m not a fan of msnbc’s the verdict with dan abrams, i was sad to hear that the show is being replaced this week with a new show with rachel maddow. the verdict’s last show will be this thursday. maddow’s new show is expected to lean to the left as the liberal countdown with [...]
