net blips for the morning

onefinemess | April 15, 2009

Some highly entertaining/interesting reading for the morning:
Republicans get mad when the surveillance programs they thought were a good idea under Bush are turned against them.  Hey, I’m against all this surveillance too – but you weren’t crying about it when they were spying on lefties were you?  Karma’s a bitch.
Matt Taibbi on the “peasant mentality” [...]

The Palin spectacle show just keeps getting better

onefinemess | April 13, 2009

Seriously, you can’t make this up.
After all the drama with her daughter’s “marriage” she really should know better.
And she’s supposedly planning a 2012 presidential run?  Man, talk about reality TV!
[EDIT: Here's more from Mudflats.]

Coates on the Palin bastard

onefinemess | February 17, 2009

Link.  I think he covers it pretty well.  The whole situation cracks me up – hypocrisy playing itself out in the national media.  Good times.
I only add “bastard” because it’s technically true.  I completely disagree with all negative connotations associated with the word: single parents can raise wonderful and loving children.   Good luck to Bristol [...]

final round of links for October

onefinemess | October 26, 2008

Let’s start things off with what must be a  Darwin award nominee.  I’m glad this wasn’t in the US, but I’m sure it could happen here.
Oh look!  It’s another nominee!  You’ve heard of people dumb enough to fall for those scams right…?  But someone dumb enough to steal for one?  fail.
The bit about erasing memories [...]

I suppose I should say something about the VP debate…

onefinemess | October 5, 2008

But I think SNL did a pretty good job already.  Grr, I don’t know what the hell Wordpress’s problem with Hulu is…I can’t embed the video, so enjoy the link.
Seriously, “hardscrabble”?  I guess that must be an old people word ;).  OK, more seriously…I think the sketch actually covers it pretty well:
*Moderator didn’t ask many [...]

Palin on Couric

onefinemess | September 25, 2008

Not much of an interview, but at least she’s starting to give SOME.  Evidently there is a longer (?) interview that won’t be shown until the 29th or 30th (what the hell??).

Thoughts?

Palin weirdness

onefinemess | September 19, 2008

See Sullivan’s blog here.
I’m not sure what to say other than that someone is telling a very direct lie about something very trivial, but WHY?

tonights speeches

onefinemess | September 3, 2008

Neither was as offensive as Fred’s speech last night, but both were of course peppered with the standard political jibes and factual distortions.
That’s right, I’m looking at you Mrs. “I said no-way to no-where!” or whatever the quote was.

Anyway, I’d hope that by now voting Americans would have the energy to research what their candidates [...]

Veeps

onefinemess | August 29, 2008

I’ll give McCain 2 points for class:

He waited until the day after to announce – it would definitely have affected the DNC news cycle I think.   However, maybe he did it immediately to be a jerk, who knows really.  I’ll just give him the benefit of the doubt for kicks.  He almost loses this [...]