To me, Google Earth is like a whole hunka potential. To date, I've just kind of played around with it, and found using it like a Flight Simulator is fun, but have not done much useful with it yet...same for its iPhone app which was released this week. But I think it will only be a short amount of time before my Birks are knocked off by it.
They do it because their desire to win exceeds their distaste for these sorts of monkeyshines.
No newsflash here.
Likewise, I really don't think anyone with a shred of sense on the GOP side really thinks that democrats are categorically a bunch of pussies when it comes to national defense or are driven by a desire to take your guns and revert us to a socialist state. The Algonquin round table at the DNC, similarly does not really think that the Republicans want to keep black people down just for kicks or stick it to the workingman.
But they do these things because it's been proven to work, electorally. It's explains exactly why Obama had tepid-at-best response to folks branding Bubba as a racist during South Carolina. The cries worked to his advantage.
Believing this, I got a kick out of McCain's latest crybaby video aimed at Barry's lipstick gaffe.
Wow, what a year for political journalists and talking heads...
Poor Bob Novak (who had already had one hell of a week, producing a false story about McCain's veep announcement and hitting a biker in DC) was diagnosed with a brain tumor yesterday.
There's no shortage of people who have differences with his politics or association with Fox News, but I always got the impression that he was a true believer in what he was going out and speaking for...a quality that there probably is a shortage of when it comes to national politics.
This, of course, was only the sequel to the screenplay Barry starred in a few weeks back when he, too, had to throw a nut that he always knew was a nut, under the bus.
Both politicians pitched and caught when it came to their relationships with the venerable men of God.
They needed some of that Jesus juice to reach various yokel constituencies in America but ended up laying in the wet spot when the rest of civilized society started to examine what the hell was going on, all praise to YouTube.
I don't expect that we're going to see a huge reversal of this use of religion on the campaign trail, but hopefully people will at least exercise a little bit more caution.
As a native of Northwest Indiana, I never thought I'd see the day when the revered New York Times explained even a little bit about the politics of The Region.
Well, these are strange days.
Tuesday's primary in the Hoosier State (as well as North Carolina) represents the first time in 40 years that Indiana's primary has accumulated a hill of beans' relevance.
Anyway, the Times article is pretty cool because it explains a little bit of the regional quirkiness of Indiana politics. My favorite part of the article, because it fits with what I know, is that the people in Gary had never heard of this little southern town they were also interviewing in.
And the people of that southern town, Salem, had, in fact heard of Gary. And they warned the interviewer to steer clear of there.
I've mentioned it here several times and was so pleased when he came back onto the web scene.
I was a shameless addict of The Note (despite, as this article mentions, its use of a lot of practically-decipherable inside jokes) and disappointed when he left it.
The Page really is where it's at for a quick catch-up on all things politics.
He's on C-SPAN's Washington Journal this morning and that got me to look up this article.
Most anyone who follows the news about the campaigns knows the story:
Republicans have been slow and resistant to adapting to the Internet. Many still see it as a slick mailer without the postage cost. A one-way information transfer, rather than creating the illusion of exchange or shared control.
We're starting to see a divergence between what the networks report and what people actually choose to view. A timely example of this is after Obama's A More Perfect Union speech. While the networks were still obsessed with replaying soundbites from Reverend Wright's Greatest Hits, the 37-minute speech video was burning up the tubes.
The Internet can't turn water into wine. While Ron Paul exceeded anyone's wildest imagination in terms of funds raised and votes cast, it still could not catapult him into an actual lead. While Obama is a highly-successful candidate all-around, one has to resist the temptation to attribute all of his success to his finesse on the Internet.
