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Monday, July 21, 2008

McCain Makes Historic First Visit to Internet

From the great Andy Borowitz:

In a daring bid to wrench attention from his Democratic rival in the 2008 presidential race, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) today embarked on an historic first-ever visit to the Internet.

Given that the Arizona Republican had never logged onto the Internet before, advisors acknowledged that his first visit to the World Wide Web was fraught with risk.

But with his Democratic rival Barack Obama making headlines with his tour of the Middle East and Europe, the McCain campaign felt that they needed to “come up with something equally bold for John to do,” according to one advisor.

Read on, it gets better.

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Filed under Humor and Politics & Elections on July 21, 2008

Are We a Nation of Financial Illiterates?

“[A]mong respondents age 50 and older, only half of them got the first two answers right and only one-third of them got all three answers right.”

How about you? Can you get all three questions correct?

Are We a Nation of Financial Illiterates? Scroll down just a little for the three questions.

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Filed under Economics & Business on July 21, 2008

Free at last

No more Comcast at Casa NewMexiKen. I have installed Qwest high-speed internet (fiber optic) and it seems at least as fast, even much faster. (How does one tell for sure? And how much does it matter anyway?)

It’s definitely cheaper!

DirecTV delayed until Wednesday due to installation limitations. (That pesky HOA.) Guess I can continue to blog, as potatoing on the couch not much fun with only 10 channels.

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Filed under Computers, Internet & Technology and Television & Radio on July 21, 2008

Boob job undone

In a decision that clears CBS of any wrongdoing for airing the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show that featured Janet Jackson’s infamous “wardrobe malfunction,” a federal appeals court overturned the $550,000 fine that the Federal Communications Commission levied against the station, calling the fine arbitrary and capricious.

The New York Times

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Filed under Legal Issues and Media & Journalism on July 21, 2008

He’s really old or just not very bright or both — your call

“We have a lot of work to do, and I’m afraid it’s a very hard struggle, particularly given the situation on the Iraq-Pakistan border.”

John McCain on Good Morning America today.  

Iraq and Pakistan do not have a border. They are separated by several hundred miles of Iran.

Neither borders Czechoslovakia either.

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Filed under Politics & Elections on July 21, 2008

July 21st is the birthday

… of Janet Reno, the first woman attorney general of the United States. She is 70.

… of actor Edward Herrmann. He is 65.

… of Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau. He’s 60.

… of Mork. Robin Williams is 57. Williams has been nominated for the best actor Oscar three times without winning. He did win the best supporting actor Oscar for Good Will Hunting.

… of Jon Lovitz. He’s 51. Fresh!

… of Brandi Chastain. She’s 40.

Ernest Hemingway was born on this date in 1899. He died a few weeks before his 62nd birthday in 1961. Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954 “for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea, and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style.” The New York Times has an extraordinary wealth of reviews, articles, interviews and other material collected on Hemingway.

Marshall McLuhan was born on this date in 1911.

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Filed under Birthdays on July 21, 2008

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