UPDATE: A special welcome to all the Ron Paul supporters checking out this link. Be sure to read this story, as well. I also have updates on Palin in this post and this post.
Enjoy the show at Target Center!
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More Palin stories (this is getting out there really fast!):
Reddit (questions surfaced four months ago)
The Young Turks
MediaTakeOut.com
ArcXIX
Hike [...]
Rumor central
Sins of the mothers
I was just told a very wild rumor: Sarah Palin’s Down Syndrome baby isn’t hers, it’s her daughters. Allegedly the daughter was out of school with “mono” for six months while mom was pregnant. !!!
The scurrilous rumors:
FameCrawler
There’s a rumor surfacing that Sarah Palin’s fifth child Trig, who was born in April, is actually the child [...]
Tunes cranked up loud
Sunshine Superman by Donovan.
No, I can’t believe it either. I really didn’t think I’d had that much to drink but suddenly there I was, sorting Mr. Mellowyellow’s discography, something I’d been putting off and putting off, knowing the pain would outweigh the pleasure. An accurate assessment, the act of typing having sobered me up sufficiently [...]
Prank calls from Shawn Johnson
Whoever just sent me the Shawn Johnson phone call inviting me to move to Des Moines? I didn’t get your name because the tape started while I was still saying “hello?” The possibly inserted fake yelps of agony did, however, sound familiar.
Otherwise — cute. Very cute.
UPDATE: This is probably an inappropriate update for this post, [...]
Only two more days of Fair
Went down to my car, looked up and watched three bicycles decked out like pink flamingos pedal by, followed by a fishcycle and a dinocycle.
All part of living next to the State Fair’s backdoor.
Pulled into the gas station and, thanks to some superdark clip-ons (replacements for my still missing prescription sunglasses), I stopped at the [...]
The Good, the Bad, the Ugly
I’m a voracious consumer of media, but I don’t think I’ll ever grow tired of this video. It doesn’t just tell Barack Obama’s story — in many ways it describes growing up in the Midwest perfectly.
No, I didn’t have a grandfather who was in WWII. Dad had a cousin who died [...]
Saturday morning media
Incomprehensible flippancy from Eric Ringham this morning as he describes efforts by University of Minnesota officials to keep their students away from the RNC. Bottom line? Get arrested and you might be subjected to disciplinary action from the UM. The validity of last-second warnings aside, I took offense at Ringham’s snark:
If only Vice Provost Rinehart [...]
Wordled for your inspection
Paul Demko story and picture
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Wordles wobble, but keep proliferating.
No feed back on these in the comments so I’m guessing y’all don’t find them anywhere near as fascinating as I do. My fascination stems as much from using Wordle as a tool for analysis, as it is with the lowbrow opportunities to be had.
— fair & [...]
Palin-esque
Some quick reactions to Sarah Palin:
[stolen from Tild]
[stolen from Al Giordano]
[misappropriated from Jafabrit, who was writing about
something else entirely]
No, Sarah Palin makes no sense at all, not from any perspective or point of view. It’s just that she’s less objectionable than Romney [Mormon], Pawlenty [I-35 bridge], Huckabee [radical populist], Giu9/11ani [corrupt], Lieberman [putz], or Cheney [...]
More links from Denver, etc.
Following up on all of it:
New Hullabaloo poster Batocchio rips on Cokie Roberts in some detail
Olbermann shreds AP’s Charles Babington for his radically biased, Ron Fournier-approved, article on The Speech
Billmon says there’s already a poll bounce despite most of the data preceding Obama’s speech
Video of psychotic cop brutally attacking a Code Pink demonstrator
Video of ABC [...]
