A Command Perfomance (that is driving McCain a little nuts)

This week has been an infuriating and frustrating experience for every Obama supporter I know. On the one hand is a media sensation machine easily manipulated by juvenile McCain attack ads and mind-numbingly unable to call McCain on his shallow hypocrisy. On the other is an Obama team that either misses glorious opportunities to go on an all out attack on McCain (Phil Gramm anyone?) or somehow too casual in their dismissal of the GOP playbook. Read more

The Joy of Earthquakes

Ah. Isn’t it good to be alive?  Viva LA – thanks for the reminder that we are all just a tad less significant than mother nature.

So CNN is telling me that the earthquake was a 5.8 and “shallow”. I guess that means that little earthquake I just experienced ranks somewhere in the “nothing-to-worry-about” box.

But, sitting in my home and feeling some giant hand grab my building and rock it backwards and forwards for 10 seconds wasn’t exactly comforting. Kind of surreal actually.

A good way to meet the neighbours though.

Thanks again for the memories LA.

 

Earthquake Hits Los Angeles

OK – That was scary.

In my home in Los Angeles and an earthquake just hit the building. It lasted at least 10 seconds. Is there more?

Hearing from CNN that it was a 5.something with the centre south of LA

CUIL Off to a Bumpy Start

CUIL received a lot of attention today, and it failed it’s first crucial test. It doesn’t work. Or, at least you can’t get onto the site.

Not sure this is the way to really build confidence in your platform Ms. Patterson.

For those with more patience than you can learn more from Michael Liedtke’s article reported on HuffPo:

SAN FRANCISCO — Anna Patterson’s last Internet search engine was so impressive that industry leader Google Inc. bought the technology in 2004 to upgrade its own system.

She believes her latest invention is even more valuable _ only this time it’s not for sale.

Patterson instead intends to upstage Google, which she quit in 2006 to develop a more comprehensive and efficient way to scour the Internet.

The end result is Cuil, pronounced “cool.” Backed by $33 million in venture capital, the search engine plans to begin processing requests for the first time Monday.

Good luck kids.

Was this Really Necessary? Laughing Anyone?

This week’s cover of the New Yorker is so ill conceived, so poorly constructed and so singularly un-satirical that it makes me wonder why the liberals in America don’t just let the Republicans do all the voting and stuff and be done with it. Really. It would be less painful to watch.

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Phil Gramm Thinks You’re Imagining Having No Money

Phil Gramm, John McCain’s senior economic advisor and architect of countless diastrous economic policies, told the Washington Post today that you are imagining being unemployed and broke. Oh, and he is also being sent to Belarus. Read more

No SAG-Aftra Love: AFTRA Goes Their Own Way

So there will be no return to those heady days of 2000 when GWB wriggled his way into the Whitehouse and SAG and AFTRA joined forces to negotiate with producers. I have posted a link to the New York Times breaking story on this. More anon. Read more

Should the Rest of US Care About the Fourth of July?

It is remarkable to me how little I know about America – esp. having lived here way longer than the length of the Bush Administration. It is more remarkable to my friends how little I realize that there is a public holiday approaching. Apparently 4th of July is one. Why should I care? What did July 4 ever do for me? Read more

America’s Health Crises – Overeating, Stress, Poor Choices and GMO’s

Few could argue that America is in the midst of a health crises.

Disentangling cause from effect is another matter altogether but in my mind it is a triangulation of three factors a) Individual responsibility and choices; b) Government empowerment and protection and c) corporate power and profits 

Now why didn’t they ask me first… Read more

The Two Guys Who Think Torture is a Joke … Where is the Media?

Yesterday the two leading architects of the Bush reign of torture made a breathtakingly arrogant and evasive appearance before the House Judiciary Committee. Today I kept my eyes and ears open for what should have been a flood of outrage – reporting perhaps? – on these two and the damage they have inflicted on America. The result? Read more

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