4 posts tagged “politics”
Doing some online political ranting and need a quick quote from some politician to bolster your point? Check out Google's InQuotes for all your political quotation needs. Cool and handy little application.
I guess we're going to have a debate tonight after all, too. I'm looking forward to checking it out. This political posturing over the economy is really quite ridiculous and I hope we have a chance to hear extensively from both candidates on their understanding of the economy, what they plan to do to fix it, and all the foreign policy issues that were originally slated to be the focus of this debate.
As any good neo-modern self publisher knows one must keep on these blogs of ours consistently! Please excuse my negligence in doing so over the past week. I've been doing a little work for a clever new wiki based, built by locals for locals guide, called Povo. I think it's a fantastic site with a great group of people (the CEO, Max Metral, is known for his work on FIrefly which was sold to Microsoft in the mid 90s), and will grow to become a dominant player in the refined web 2.0 world where user generated content will create an honest and believably transparent guide to all kinds of consumer businesses.
And Roger Federer, who I said I thought could win the US Open in my last post, went on to do just that in fine style. Nice one Roger!
And, despite suffering a heartbreaking ninth inning loss last night, the Red Sox have closed the gap against the Devil Rays and look poised to steal the AL East division title as the regular season wraps up. The Yankees, meanwhile, have slipped to fourth place; therre will be no fall baseball in the Bronx for the final season in the house that Ruth built. While I wont be shedding any tears on this point, it would've been nice to beat them on their home turf in said turf's final season.
I've also been playing loads of squash while I am staying in my folks place here in Massachusetts, and am greatful to have found such a nice group of people to be able to play with. I'm forging onward with business school application prep, too, trying to relearn High School math to bolster my GMAT score. Fun! ;-)
And of course the lovely Sarah Palin has shaken up the presidential race. Seems the polsters are sayig, at least now in the post convetion blitz, that things are neck & neck. I am so sick of the intesne coverage of this election and micro analysis of everything that I'm personally just looking forward to the debates as a hopeful return to some actual discussion about important things that the president might actually do and might actually have meaningful power over. I try not to get into too muc politics on here because one of the things I hate the most about this election is internet politics jockeys searching out useful tidbits of media heightened minutiae to use to support their well entrenched partisan beliefs (whatever side they are on) and trash the other side. Let's face it: most of the people in the country knew what aprty they'd vote for regardless of the candidate chosen before any of the discussions actually started, and the smear tactics of the online public are not intellectual or constructive, and ultimately drag the dialogue further into the partisan mud.
Oh and this picture of Gov. Palin is fake, silly fools who believed it was real need a quick edjumication in the art of the ph0t0-cH0p!:
Of course I had to share it, with a glare of abject horror on my face, you can be quite certain, when Michelle Obama executed a terrorist fist jab on the view. Scarreh! It seems the terrorists have infiltrated our handshakery to highest levels as our dear leader is now doing the jab! Ack the terrorists have won!!!
Ah the terrorist fist jab! Good for Michelle. I like her and am annoyed by people (and Fox News) talking smack about her.
