Wed 19 Nov 2008 14:56 [Asides] Zawahiri can kiss my ass.*
Wed 19 Nov 2008 12:44 [Asides] Darth Stevens goes down the power shaft, but Alaskans have only traded in a Sith master for a Sith apprentice.
Count on it.
Sat 15 Nov 2008 23:13 [Asides] If I’m going to be serious about this “no more blogging” thing then I might as well make the active part of the site not look so much like a blog anymore. To that end, the name I gave the blog I started on November 5, is hereby repealed (note the header, above).
Entry to site content will be via the front page where links show the most recently posted entry, and the most recently updated fiction piece—in the case of a newly-begun short story or chapter, they’ll be the same. Once a visitor makes it to content, they’ll have access to the links at right for categories, or the dropdown menu for a monthly listing. There’s also the searchbox, of course, which offers access to all EE-managed content including obsolete weblogs.
I’ll make more changes over the course of the week or so, to further focus attention on my fiction projects.
Sat 15 Nov 2008 23:00 In Progress, last updated I’m trying to get more of this noir stuff out of my system before I pick up once again with Play Rough, Fight Dirty.
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Sat 15 Nov 2008 10:28 [Asides] Every single objection I raised earlier this year against having Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska) join this year’s national ticket, played at least somewhat into the shitstorm she endured while running for vice-president. Once McCain invited her onto the ticket and she accepted, I supported her and McCain because I didn’t want to be right about all those things. And really, she would be a fantastic new face and voice for the GOP—if she ever gets the chance to be. The Beltway Guard’s desperate loathing for her proves as much.
But though I didn’t want to be right, I was. People, that old tagline I used when my blog was named “blogoSFERICS”—“So right, it’s embarrassing”—was never an empty boast.
Now I fear for Gov. Palin’s re-election as governor in 2010. I hope her home-state supporters remain as happy about her after all this, as they were before she joined the ticket. But as President Bush’s father found out in the second half of his term as president, approval ratings that look impossibly high, can change abruptly and disastrously in a heartbeat.
One of my objections was the identity-politics aspect. I see conservatives signing their comments “Palin/Jindal 2012” and I want to beat my head against a wall. Then again, trying to make people see reason about this is about as effective.
The operative word in the phrase “identity politics” is POLITICS. Give an identity-politics black voter a choice between a black Republican and a white Democrat, and he will vote for the white guy every time. Give an identity-politics feminist a choice between a Republican woman and a Democrat serial sexual-harasser, and she’ll vote for the skirt-chaser.
Every time.
The only way the Republican Party would ever crack those blocs is by selling its soul—just as it has been trying to do since Reagan left office. And even then it won’t work, because the very concept that allows a black voter to prefer an Ed Rendell over a Lynn Swann, is “authenticity.“ The Democrats have been identity-pimping for generations. They are the only authentic identity-pimping party on the ballot.
I’m saying these things not in hopes that anyone will pay attention, because I’ve given up hope that anyone will, but just to get it off my chest. So there it is. Ignore it.
Update: “The best-informed Obama voters we could find.“ You have got to watch that video.
Thu 13 Nov 2008 10:28 [Asides] While I don’t deny that Obama Derangement Syndrome (ODS) is a very real concern, I would also caution people against falling prey to ODS Derangement Syndrome (ODSDS), which is the ultra-paranoid fear of being perceived as having, or of being politically aligned with sufferers of, ODS.
The “ODS” label runs the risk of becoming just a re-branding of the race card, which the Obama campaign and the media (but I repeat myself) threw around with such glee during the late campaign.
Tue 11 Nov 2008 16:19 [Asides] To the soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coasties—to all who wear or have worn the uniform of this great nation to serve in her defense, thank you.
I pray someday we can be worthy of such devotion.
Mon 10 Nov 2008 22:24
The highest temperature ever recorded in Alaska was 100° F. on June 17, 1915; at Fort Yukon.
Fort Yukon is on the Arctic Circle.
If the global is warmening, shouldn’t the highest temperature ever recorded in Alaska—on the Arctic Circle, no less—have happened a little more recently than 93 years ago?
Just wondering.
This Is One of My Silly ‘Little-Known Fact’ Historical Posts Sun 9 Nov 2008 21:17
[Asides] If anyone ever tells you that Sen. Obama is “the 44th President-Elect,“ kindly correct them. In actual fact, there have been only 35 presidents-elect including Obama—while Grover Cleveland counts as two because of his non-consecutive terms, Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson were incumbents at the time of their respective elections.
And of course Presidents Tyler, Fillmore, Andrew Johnson, Arthur and Ford were never elected president at all.
Sun 9 Nov 2008 14:20 [Asides] Say: “A guy throws his drum set out the window.“ Then click the red button.
Shamelessly stolen from InstantRimshot.com.
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