“She’s a monster”

I had to laugh when I heard from an older friend that his 70-year-old lady friend, a retired nurse, said of Sarah Palin, “She’s a monster.” I haven’t seen Palin’s entire interview with Charlie Gibson, but I’ve seen enough to know we should be very scared of her. Listen to her dissemble, trying to back out of her assertion that our being in Iraq is a “task from God.” She was thinking like Lincoln?? Oh, puh-leez!

3 comments September 11th, 2008

Quick Notes

  • tastewar points out an item on boingboing about Raymond Scott, composer/musician/engineer/inventor, born 100 years ago.
  • NPR has a spot about an effort to preserve the boyhood home of Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel. Note that Stephen Colbert is involved.

1 comment September 11th, 2008

Anita Page 1910 - 2008

Actress Anita Page died last Saturday. An obituary is here, and you can see some of her being brash, bold, and brassy, in The Broadway Melody of 1929, by clicking here.

1 comment September 10th, 2008

One After 9/09

Happy birthday to me!

Charles Schulz drawing
Cartoon by Charles M. Schulz, 1957

It is, of course, also my twin sister Jean’s birthday. No, we’re not identical. ;-)

15 comments September 10th, 2008

Fannie and Freddie Failures Succeed

This is wrong.

Fannie and Freddie CEOs may collect millions
By Martha Graybow

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The top executives at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, both losing their jobs as part of a government bailout, may get multimillion-dollar payments from the mortgage finance companies upon their exits.

I am so fed up with executives walking away from their failures with millions of dollars. This is simply unfair. We need a serious attitude change in Washington, and I promise you that John McCain is not the man to deal with out of control executive compensation.

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