When you think about it, blogs really should be just Friday Bullets. No one really wants to know the half-baked opinions of strangers. No one really is interested in how many ways the unhappy and unintelligent drop-outs and dopes who post comments can insult. They want to know about the stuff that fills the internet that, frankly, anyone would get along fine without ever knowing. Stuff like:
- The contribution of Alan Blumlein to the invention of stereo sound is only now starting to be appreciated.
- The RCMP spied on Rita MacNeil.
- The cops are also after an Olsen twin.
- Someone at The Globe and Mail actually thinks "Canadian team invades Beijing" is a good headline.
- People apparently think customers paying for cell phone spam is good business.
- The Calgary Herald apparently believes that calling an argument a myth is enough to refute it in an partisan editorial written in the 1908-ish style...or one borrowed from bloggers.
- A man in Bulgaria had the equivalent of 60 beer before driving and then blowing 0.851 - over ten times the Canadian limit.
- Obama's lead in the polls may have vanished and advising to keep your tires inflated likely won't help.
Comments
Ben (The Tiger) - August 5, 2008 8:46 am
It's very interesting, the hills people choose to die on.
They didn't take a stand on FISA (warrantless wiretapping, etc.), but drilling, the issue where two-thirds of Americans -- two-thirds! -- are with the Republicans, that's the issue to dig in.
Obama and Pelosi must know something about the issue that we don't. Because otherwise, it looks like a hundred yard sprint onto someone else's bayonet.
Alan - August 5, 2008 9:53 am
I tell ya, it's the tire gauge lobbyists.
Renee - August 5, 2008 9:57 am
Goddamnit, I'm STILL made about FISA.
Renee - August 5, 2008 9:57 am
"mad". And, apparently, incoherent!
Ben (The Tiger) - August 5, 2008 11:42 am
That just shows how angry you got...
Temujin - August 5, 2008 2:44 pm
Well yeah, but the Canadian BA limit of .08 is just an arbitrary figure anyways. Was he slurring his words?
Alan - August 5, 2008 3:03 pm
I think he was likely whirling his swerds at that level.
Renee - August 6, 2008 9:04 am
I know I get a little tipsy after only 40 beers.
Mike C - August 6, 2008 1:21 pm
We watched 'North by Northwest' last night. Funny scene where Cary Grant gets a quart of bourbon poured down his throat by the baddies and they stick him behind a stolen car. He pushes baddie out, drives away from them along the winding coastal highway and gets nabbed by police. After sleeping it off in their jail, he then got a suspended slap on the wrist. That's Our Cary!
Btw, Martin Landau rules. Eva Marie Saint also rules.
Anyway, all timely in that pre-Beatles Madison Avenue booze hounds are back in style.
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