» Next Entries

polity pow-wows

Intellectual Property and Culture, information policy, mine media minutia, polity pow-wows
We have a winner: LeRoy E. Myers
03.29.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

Ted Stevens honorary Lawmaker of the Week Award: LeRoy E. Myers, Jr, Maryland House of Delegates, District 1C Open Curtain: LeRoy sits down in his bedroom to watch several torporous hours of old M*A*S*H episodes on YouTube before slipping into an empty vastness of sleep. We watch as he heaves a familiar end-of-the-day sigh, kicks [...]

✄
polity pow-wows
Wait for it….
01.18.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

Something really special happens at some point in this :30 clip. Can you spot it? Does it seem as out-of-nowhere to you as it did to me? Do these announcers just point at a random word from the ‘Times front and SHOUT IT? “Odom to Bryant and..STIMULUS PLAN!!!!“

✄
polity pow-wows
A cliche rant for a dude to have
01.17.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

* When I wrote the following I was pretty darn frustrated at all the circumstances surrounding Obama’s close second in NH. I’m still uncertain about some of the assumptions embedded below, but It felt good to get it out. So here it is … A lady ‘found her voice’ and got emotional. But she wasn’t [...]

✄
mine media minutia, polity pow-wows
My Orange Crush
12.24.07 | Permalink | 3 Comments

With Putin all up in the news cycle, I could not help but vaguely reminisce that about time a couple of years ago when he slithered down a chimney and dosed that Ukranian guy’s vodka with ugly-powder. Remember that? Sorta? Same here, and the revisitation is interesting enough that I dug around a bit and [...]

✄
mine media minutia, polity pow-wows
Brit Hume, it’s sad that you’re the most legitimate voice on a major news network.
11.23.07 | Permalink | 2 Comments

*Latent rant brought to you by Fox News Porn Maybe I’m just seeing what I want to, but is the older generation of newsfolks – you know, the ones who understood that journalism’s function is only partially to entertain – just dryly reading the cards and waiting to retire? Two years ago Rather demonstrated some [...]

✄