Saw the Clint Eastwood movie Gran Torino last night. A very good film. Eastwood does cranky old man just as well as he did tough cop and enigmatic western hero.
The Apple App Store has Peggle on sale through today for 99¢. It’s a fun arcade game. I’ve never been much of a video game player, but do enjoy them on the iPhone/iPod. Paper Toss is another great time waster, and it’s free.
A brief squall here this morning. Thunderstorms in June? In the morning? What is this planet coming to? Looks like some 90-degree days headed our way, though. I guess I’d better fire up the cooler — haven’t needed it yet this year.
I see we’ve gotten through the switch to digital TV without people taking to the streets with torches. It’s getting more and more difficult for ANY change to come about in our society without it being turned into the apocalypse.
FiveThirtyEight projects that Obama would win 445 electoral votes if an election were held today. The projection is based on his popularity, awarding the president states where he has 50% approval or better.
Alas, as Frank Rich writes, “A sizable minority of Americans is irrationally fearful of the fast-moving generational, cultural and racial turnover Obama embodies — indeed, of the 21st century itself. That minority is now getting angrier in inverse relationship to his popularity with the vast majority of the country.”
Haven’t seen any torches, but C-SPAN reports the digital help lines swamped.
I suspect it has more to do with the shortening of range for digital vs analog signal “I can’t get Channel five anymore” than with “I had no idea my TV wouldn’t work”.
I hope.
As for the media formerly known as Far Right, now known as the Right media; because they continue to cut the difference between themselves and any center the party sets up; I fear they will continue the steady climb until it no longer pays. Which might be awhile.
But phone calls to the advertisers might help.
I strongly suspect first the media, then the people will forget our current financial problems go back twenty years to their snow-balling inception, and this too will be Obama’s fault.
People get stupid when they are scared. And they should be scared, but stupid never helps.
But the LAST thing anyone needs to be worrying about is gun sales.
The people you need to worry about never didn’t own guns since long ago. And I suspect a lot of current gun sales is straw-man purchases destined for Mexico and south.
But the reference to Homeland Security is funny as hell. The Right sees them as a mouth-piece for Obama, the left sees them as the vestiges of a Cheney police state in the making. And I don’t think that is going to change until they change that stunningly stupid name that recalls Hitler’s Germany and Der Faterland.
Saw Gran Torino last night, too. Thoroughly enjoyed it.