Archive for February, 2010

lunchtime distraction: superbowl ad review

no doubt you were bombarded with “best ad” re-caps this morning as you were downing your tomato juice/raw-egg combo before work today.  in case you missed any of the ads, or you’re too under-the-weather to do anything productive, our friends at coca-cola have sponsored an ad viewing site on hulu (watch all the ads here). [...]


thank you, reader(s)

this is the 1000th post on sacred bird.  when we, (180 and 630) started this blog back in march, 2008 we wanted to:

fill the days at our mind-numbingly boring workplace (yes, we used to work in the same prison office). 
find a way to express all the love we had for news and the people who report [...]


at least she can read

sarah palin told chris wallace on this sunday’s fox news sunday “It would be absurd to not consider what it is that I can potentially do to help our country.” this coming from the woman who was the keynote speaker at the tea party convention this weekend. for those of you who didn’t want to [...]


you betcha

former governor sarah palin delivered her speech to the conservative tea party convention over the weekend. she addressed many issues–the 9/11 mindset settling in to america; obama’s hopey-changey stuff  (she also called him out for being smart and professorial); transparency (or lack thereof); the movement of the tea partyers; and the magic that is massachusetts.
if [...]


the blogs ARE crazy

it’s a good thing our blog flies a little under the radar cause i wouldn’t want t be called out by jon stewart.

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news you can use: weekend edition from heaven and hell

oh here we are, one month into 2010 and the news is filled with tidbits you can use to impress your friends, co-workers, and paramours. almost every week we recap the good nuggets of gold that will make everyone think you are a master of the news universe, not with those boring stories about the [...]


anderson cooper denies adoption rumors

for some reason, the national enquirer didn’t have the same investigative team on anderson cooper as they did on john edwards.  they reported that anderson was adopting a baby from haiti, quoting a longtime friend as saying “The death and destruction in Haiti made Anderson realize what’s really important.”  anderson debunked the rumors by saying [...]