I don’t often roam too far from blogging home, but this item came up on Google Desktop and I was so incensed by it I had to add a comment. It’s been seven years since Bush took office, yet somehow everything is still Clinton’s fault??
Be absolutely clear about one thing: I think George W. Bush is by far the worst President the United States has had in my lifetime. My father, a reformed Republican, says the same thing, and his lifetime goes back to Coolidge.
Here’s something fascinating and cool that my sister Jean pointed out. It’s an interactive Flash animation from the NOVA TV show Web site, about the real-life Great Escape. I missed the program, which I can see was a mistake.
Hot on the heels of Bill O’Reilly’s pitiful attempt to get to Barack Obama, as featured here, is this story about an outright lie reported as fact by Fox News. But how can it be news if they insist on believing an unnamed source that’s been completely discredited?? Thanks to my friend Bismo for the tip.
The big upset last week was Hillary getting whupped in Iowa by Barack. Well, New Hampshire has put Hillary back in the running!
Another big upset last week was Warner Bros. pictures abandoning Toshiba’s HD-DVD format in favor of Sony’s Blu-Ray. Yet last night, and again tonight, Toshiba advertised HD-DVD on The Colbert Report.
I don’t know if there’s any hope for my favored format (no, I don’t own an HD player), but at least there’s still some fight left in ’em at Toshiba! Or maybe they were just too depressed to remember to cancel this week’s ad campaign. 😉
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Tom Moroney is host of a show on Bloomberg Radio called Simply Put. Prior to that he was a newspaper columnist. Kudos to Tom for succeeding in the two businesses I tried, but gave up! By chance Tom lives not far from here, and we cross paths every so often. My sister Jean and I went to high school with Tom. We were all in the drama club, along with a remarkable woman named Noreen Barnes, a dear friend who is now a college professor in Virginia. Here’s a picture of Tom and Noreen in a high school play together. I don’t want to say how long ago this was!
Tom Moroney is up in New Hampshire right now, covering the Presidential primary. The surprise news at the moment is that Hillary Clinton is holding a lead over Barack Obama. Here’s a brief clip of Tom on the radio tonight.
[audio:http://www.dograt.com/Audio/2008/JAN/Moroney.mp3]Few media personalities are more deserving of derision and ridicule than Bill O’Reilly. OK, Rush Limbaugh maybe is one.
There’s a video that’s been widely circulated today, and I’m about to circulate it some more. It was pointed out to me by a friend at work. Remember — they report, you decide!
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