Neighborhood Nicknames 09.17.08 | Permalink | Comment? I have a message for my city: no more cutesy abbreviations for all of the new neighborhoods popping up around town. Listen, this isn’t New York. They can give their city’s cool, hip areas nicknames like SoHo and TriBeCa, because, well, they’re cool and hip. But I don’t live in NYC.
The Palin Interview – Part One: Foreign Policy Flubs09.11.08 | Permalink | Comment? It’s well-known by now that Sarah Palin loves to go moose hunting. But she looked more like a deer in headlights throughout much of her interview with ABC’s Charlie Gibson tonight. Her most notable stumble came when Gibson asked whether she agreed with the Bush Doctrine.
Having worked in television news for several years in a past life, it makes me (so) mad when I hear television news personalities use subjective terms to describe various people, situations, events, etc. Since we’re in the heat of a presidential election, this phenomenon is now being applied most to those running for president.
mad about messaging, mad about politicsCampaign of whiners09.02.08 | Permalink | Comment? It seems like the McCain campaign can dish it out, but they can’t take it. A few months after a senior McCain adviser referred to America as a “nation of whiners,” McCain and his staffers have become a campaign of whiners. They’re a bit ruffled over all of the questions surrounding VP pick Sarah Palin.
mad about pop culturePlaid shorts09.01.08 | Permalink | Comment? Perhaps the most memorable moment from Barack Obama’s acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention was when he exclaimed “Enough!” He was referring to the past eight years of GOP corruption and mismanagement, but another recent phenomenon is nearly as serious, and warrants just as stern a rebuke: men wearing plaid shorts.
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