Roger Ebert on his cancer and thoughts of his mortality:
Nor do I mope about fearing that my cancer might return. If it does, it does, and that’s what she wrote. At Pritikin they have a truism: “If you don’t die of anything else, sooner or later you will die of cancer.” We all nod thoughtfully.
If [...]
Chris Erskine of the LA times has compiled his “All Ego Sports Teams”. Here is what it takes to make it on his lists:
… [ it ] isn’t about steeling self-confidence. It’s about bloated ego, about heads too big for the helmet, and mouths too big for the microphone. It’s about the real-life [...]
Zogby and Ziegler - it sounds like the circus, doesn’t it?
Well then, that thud you just heard was John Zogby falling off his partner’s flimsy trapeze.
According to the WSJ’s Carl Bialik , Zogby, while still standing by the John Ziegler poll results, would not have approved the poll or the press release defending [...]
The back and forth rhetoric between stat guru Nate Silver and “entertainer/host” John Ziegler is a wonderful window into the pathetic state of affairs on the far right. Poor Ziegler and his “survey” simply wilt away under any kind of objective scrutiny, and Nate Silver effortlessly exposes the BS like nobody else.
Post interview, [...]
Well, we are still quite new to the blogosphere but this blog currently skews a bit toward the “analytical and logical”, at least, according to www.typealyzer.com , which instantly generates the “type” of blog when you enter the name of the website. Here is how they currently describe us:
The logical and analytical type. They [...]
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Yes, times are tough.
The iPhone 3G still has some bugs, my sinuses are acting up again, and oh yeah, the economy is still sliding off the edge of a cliff…
So today we got some more bad economic news: consumer prices falling a record 1 percent in October - this is [...]
The McCain/Palin wall of lies continues to crumble. Yesterday, William Ayers further discredited the notion that he and Obama were somehow in nefarious cahoots together:
“This idea that we need to know more, like there’s a dark hidden secret, a secret link, is just a myth,” Ayers said. “And it’s a myth thrown up by people who [...]
While we’re on the subject of Hillary, Nate Silver gets all hypothetical, and wonders what would have happened if Hillary had defeated Obama in the primaries:
…If Hillary Clinton had headed the Democratic ticket, would John McCain have been dumb enough to name Sarah Palin as his running mate?
No, and without Palin, who knows how far [...]
How we crave political intrigue! No elections for awhile, so here’s the next best thing:
What does Hillary Clinton really want?
If she joins Obama’s cabinet, then clearly her wagon would be hitched to his…
On Monday night, while walking into an awards ceremony in New York, Senator Clinton was asked if she would consider taking a post in the [...]
So that’s what the “F” stands for…
The Supreme Court is looking at the FCC’s new policy and weighing the idea that it is a free speech violation to fine broadcasters for occasional swear words (or “fleeting expletives”). In the past, the FCC would tend to overlook little slips, like the one’s we’ve heard recently from [...]
