Month: October 2007

Plastic Fantastic Spender

I think this TV commercial is obviously intended to get people into the holiday shopping mood.
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The second thing I noticed about this commercial is that it’s a full minute long, which is relatively rare these days. The reason it deserves to be a 60-second spot is the first thing I noticed — the music, which I recognized immediately. It’s by Danny Elfman, from this…
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Tech note: The buzz in the TV commercial is from Comedy Central. Not my fault.

My Iraq Faqs

  1. Who attacked the United States on September 11, 2001?
      2. Osama bin Laden and Al Qaida
  2. Did the United States have a good chance at capturing Osama bin Laden?
      3. Yes, in December, 2001, in Tora Bora, Afghanistan.
  3. Has the United States captured Osama bin Laden?
      4. No.
  4. Did Saddam Hussein and Iraq have any involvement with September 11, 2001 or Osama bin Laden?
      5. No.
  5. What justification was given by President Bush for invading Iraq?
      6. Saddam Hussein was in possession of lethal weapons that represented an imminent, large scale threat.
  6. Did Saddam Hussein have any such weapons?
      7. No.

None of these facts are in dispute, are they? And they were all known before the election of 2004, were they not? Just checking.

Stephen Colbert On Meet The Press

Not being a blogger devoted solely to following Stephen Colbert, I post Colbertish things when it’s convenient and/or I’m inspired. Neither is the case at the moment, but my FiOS DVR happened to catch Stephen’s appearance on Meet The Press today. One interesting revelation is that in a past incarnation Colbert apparently wanted to look like Elvis Costello.
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Shields MRI’s World Class Service?

Way back last November, I posted an MRI of my right ankle. That MRI was taken by Shields MRI, which has a large presence in New England. As I’ve pointed out before, whoever the idiot was at Shields who looked at the MRI said I had an “intrinsically normal posterior tibial tendon,” when it was far from normal. I’m doing vastly better than I was a year ago, and my running schedule is almost back to what it had been, but I definitely still have chronic PTT inflammation and weakness in my ankle.