http://youtu.be/UUNIeOB0whI This ad is now up and running. Pretty clear where he stands on the debt ceiling.
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The Most Amazing Website I Have Ever Seen
This is the most amazing website I have ever seen. A colleague works with its creator. It is mind-blowing. I just watched — and this is but one of a gadgillion things — live TV coverage of September 11, 2001. It has every station in America recorded. The Internet Archive has more 2.8 million books, old television shows, […]
Read the rest of this entry »Going, Going Postal
I’m wondering, does anything come in the U.S. mail anymore that I actually want? Anything? I stopped all direct mail solicitations a few years back, so I think it’s pretty much just bills for me these days, and who wants them. Everything good comes from Fedex or UPS. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a big fan of the US […]
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Indiana, Wisconsin, and — yes, even New York — are cited as national bi-partisan roll models in this Chicago Tribune editorial today about Illinois’ reluctance to enact needed fiscal reforms. Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels — who a lot of people, including me, were hoping would run for president — gets glowing reviews for his work. He has actually engineered a surplus in the […]
Read the rest of this entry »Campaign Ad, Goldwater ’64
http://youtu.be/3pyLmz6eVMg There is a great New Yorker cartoon of a man belly-up to a bar confiding to the barkeep, “I miss the Commies.” He must have been an adman. Those little red heathens were great fodder for campaign ads like this one-minute spot for Barry Goldwater in 1964. It interchanges video clips of Soviet Premier […]
Read the rest of this entry »Are Migraine’s Prohibitive?
Are migraines prohibitive for presidential candidates? We are about to find out.
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There is a super-interesting-study out of Heritage Foundation today on what constitutes poverty in America — in the eyes of the U.S. Census Bureau at least. The results might suprise a lot of people. No one is unsympathetic to the least fortunate among us, but poverty in America is a relative term. The Census classifies 30 million Americans as “poor”, yet the vast majority […]
Read the rest of this entry »It’s Creative Destruction, But It Still Stings
Borders Books will shut its doors this summer, casting additional doubt on the long-term survival of the hard copy book industry. Digital books, quickly and decisively, are relegating obsolete the entire brick-and-mortar book selling model. It is very possible that, in not too many years, bookstores will be considered novelty shops, not unlike today’s smattering […]
Read the rest of this entry »Making Congress Squirm
The closer the US gets to debt ceiling D-Day, the more I find myself rooting for the Tea Party coalition in Congress. Part of the reason is that I love big news stories. I root for record temperatures in the summer and historic snowfalls in the winter. I can’t help it; it’s how I’m built. […]
Read the rest of this entry »Time Marches On; Ask Alice
Okay, this is pretty far outside of the realm of this blog. But I keep running across Alice in Wonderland references and I have heard “White Rabbit” on the radio at least a half dozen times in the past month (is that song making a comeback or something?). So today, when I saw one of […]
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