Candy, anyone?
Happy Hallowe’en And it’s a damned good thing it doesn’t conflict with “Lost”.
Archive of entries posted on October 2006
There oughtta be a law
My city councilman’s name is Okino; my state house representative’s name is Oshiro. It drives me crazy keeping the two separate in my head.
Insurrection Act revision
Does anyone else read this as implying that Bush (or any future President) could define “public disorder” any way he or she wanted and commandeer the National Guard preparatory to a declaration of martial law? Public Law 109-364, or the “John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007” (H.R.5122) (2), which was signed by the commander …
Archaeo-mysteries
If you’re looking for a good series of mystery novels with excellent characterization, you could do a lot worse than Elizabeth Peters’ Amelia Peabody books. A family of archaeologists excavating in Egypt at the end of the 19th century through the early 1920s so far (eighteen books) has adventures with tomb robbers, Great War espionage, …
Saturday Night Music
Here’s The Band with The Staple Singers singing “The Weight” from Scorsese’s “The Last Waltz.” For an encore, here they are doing “Cripple Creek” on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1969.
This is objectivity?
Here’s Billmon on old media and the way it’s covering the midterm campaign, particularly the ads: The way the media is currently handling the GOP’s Swiftboat extravaganza is a textbook example of how the conventions of journalistic “objectivity” have become the enemies of truth, not its allies. It shows why so many on the left …
Sloppy Series
Well, that wasn’t very exciting. Congratulations to the Cardinals, who played (and pitched) better than the Tigers. Unfortunately, that’s not saying much. There were five errors by Tiger pitchers in five games, and several of them had major consequences, allowing several runs to score. This wasn’t riveting baseball at all at all. When do pitchers …
An odd distinction
Whatever happened to the old media axiom that part of its mission was “Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable?” NBC has refused to air an advertisement for the new documentary about the Dixie Chicks’ travails after Natalie Maines’ remark about her shame that President Bush was from Texas. According to the Weinstein Co., NBC’s …
It’s over
Eight days, three hours, $620K. After innumerable pledge breaks (about every twenty minutes for reminders, and once an hour ten minutes at a time), Hawai’i Public Radio exceeded its goal with one full day plus a little to spare. I think this is the fifth or sixth consecutive time they’ve come in early. I still …
Lost, Season 3, Episode 4
Jack may or may not have been captured to operate on somebody’s spine; Sawyer may have a daughter and can be conned (I want credit for saying during the show that there’s no way an incision that small would have allowed the implantation of a pacemaker), and Kate can squeeze out of the top of …