Is David Letterman A Washington Nationals Fan?

11:15 pm EST December 28th, 2008 | Sports | Comments Off

Dallas Cowboys Getting Pwned

7:07 pm EST December 28th, 2008 | Sports | 5 Comments

As I write this, the Redskins are strug-gl-ling to come back versus the lowly 49ers (tied 24-24 after giving up 17 free points and now relying on a likely Joe Nedney kick to send the Skins to 8-8), but oh my goodness the Eagles are killing the Cowboys 44-6. Wow.

UPDATE: *SIGH* Nedney field goal is good, Redskins fall to 8-8. Which is about the right way to round up the season. Not too good, not too bad, just bad enough to miss the playoffs.

Topic: NFL

Little Big Sony

12:46 pm EST December 28th, 2008 | Uncategorized | 5 Comments

I’m an XBox 360 owner (and apparently in the majority in the Sony-Microsoft battle, though Nintendo is winning the wider war) and played Little Big Planet for the first time this Christmas at my cousin’s house.

This is what all the noise is about? Oh sure, the game looks cool and I understand the appeal about being able to customize things, but the game is basically a Mario-style platform game. The skin is really nice thanks to the Playstation’s engine, but I don’t see how a game like that competes with things like Call Of Duty, Halo, and Gears of War. And if you are aiming for a mainstream, family experience, doesn’t the Wii show that you don’t need top notch graphics to appeal to this demographic?

Topic: Video Games

Gaza

12:40 pm EST December 28th, 2008 | Uncategorized | 108 Comments

It’s our land!
No, it’s our land!
Ceasefire.
Suicide bombing, rocket attack.
Retalliatory rocket attack.
Condemn!
U.S. negotiated ceasefire.
Rinse, lather, repeat.

The sooner we get off oil the sooner we can leave the yahoos in Israel and in the Palestinian/Arab world to their own devices, free to blow each other to smithereens.

Topic: Middle East

The Next Right = The Same Right

4:02 pm EST December 27th, 2008 | Republicans | 30 Comments

As Vice President-elect Joe Biden noted during the 2008 convention, the GOP continues to offer more of the same.

Chip Saltsman, a candidate for chairman of the Republican National Committee, sent committee members this month a holiday music CD that included “Barack the Magic Negro,” a parody song first aired in 2007 by talk show host Rush Limbaugh.

Until the Republican party kicks the racial habit, they’ll continue to be a minority monochromatic party from the south.

Topic: GOP Bigot Eruption, Racism

Amazon.com iPhone/iPod App

5:39 am EST December 27th, 2008 | News | 5 Comments

If you’re a book junkie like me and you like to check Amazon.com to either see reviews of a book while you’re in a book store or cheat and use Amazon’s recommendation engine, you should use the new Amazon.com app I just found yesterday from them. It works much faster (for me at least) than the Amazon.com mobile site.

Topic: Books, Tech

Hawaii Matters

5:33 am EST December 27th, 2008 | News | 3 Comments

obamahawaii A couple of years ago when I visited Hawaii for the first time, I was struck by its relative isolation from the rest of America. There are all the obvious geographic obstacles, but in addition to that, outside of vacation time people here on the mainland of the USA just don’t think about Hawaii much.

That has changed.

The island of Oahu lost power Friday evening in the midst of heavy rain and lightning, leaving some 800,000 residents and thousands of tourists in the dark, as well as the neighborhood where President-elect Barack Obama was vacationing.

Residents were being advised by the power company and civil authorities to get to their homes and conserve water. Several radio stations were broadcasting emergency information.

Gov. Linda Lingle said that Hawaiian Electric Co. was taking an emergency generator to the compound on the east side of the island where Obama has been staying. Lingle said she had asked the utility to notify her when it had been delivered.

Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann told KSSK radio that Obama is in one of the “most secure places, so he’ll be OK.”

It’s quite possible that for the next 4-8 years we’re going to hear more about Hawaii than we did about Crawford, Texas. And that’s going to be a pretty cool thing. Because – no slight to the folks of Crawford (their local paper endorsed Obama) – but hearing more about Hawaii is a refreshing change from the ordinary.

Though I’m still waiting for the first president from here in Maryland, the southern state with a Yankee sense of mind.

Topic: Hawaii, President Obama

Does The Marvel Universe Hate Hippies?

5:23 am EST December 26th, 2008 | Comic Books | 9 Comments

A compelling case is made.

Wasilla’s Hillbilly Heroin

5:14 am EST December 26th, 2008 | News | 124 Comments

Bristol Palin’s boyfriend’s mom seems to have been arranging an Oxycontin hookup, which led to her arrest. Couldn’t they just have called up Rush Limbaugh?

Change Has Come, America

5:11 am EST December 26th, 2008 | News | 21 Comments

barack obama

Things are going to get better.

A month before his inauguration, Americans choose Barack Obama as the man they admire most in the world, according to a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll. It’s the first time a president-elect has topped the annual survey in more than a half-century.

President Bush falls to a distant second after seven years as the most-admired man.

Hillary Rodham Clinton leads the list of most-admired woman, a spot she’s held for 13 of the past 16 years — as first lady, then New York senator and now Obama’s designate for secretary of State. A newcomer is second: Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who wasn’t well-known nationally until Republican presidential candidate John McCain chose her as his running mate in August.

Topic: President Obama