Politics from a moderate-leftie in a right-leaning U.S. http://www.samueljohnson.com/blog/ http://www.samueljohnson.com/blog/parchives/081006.html At a Colorado airport appearance yesterday, Governor Palin segued from a claim that she actually reads newspapers to cite an article in yesterday's New York Times on an old, peripheral association Obama had with William Ayers, of the Weather Underground. Palin's remarks were kind of like a fork in chess, pressing two arguments at once: http://www.samueljohnson.com/blog/archives/0810a.html#5a http://www.samueljohnson.com/blog/parchives/081005.html (This may also work for other MP3 players, I don't know.) Get your iPod to dig deeper into the nether regions of its drive: first, rank your tunes by the number of plays; second, find the threshold for the bottom third or fourth; third, create a 'smart playlist' (this is what iTunes calls it) for the songs http://www.samueljohnson.com/blog/archives/0810a.html#3c Ah, I'm going to make you feel like you paid too much for your ticket with this post. Brooklyn Heights is the neighborhood you'd hit if you were visiting NYC, felt obliged http://www.samueljohnson.com/blog/archives/0810a.html#3b Fordham University http://www.samueljohnson.com/blog/parchives/081004.html In a situation where Governor Palin wants us to believe that she's ready to be "one heartbeat away," she winks at me in one of her first answers? Hell, I betcha they tried negotiating a spitoon onto the stage so she could try and make it ring. You darn betcha they did. http://www.samueljohnson.com/blog/archives/0810a.html#3a http://www.samueljohnson.com/blog/parchives/081003.html The details which came out earlier in the week about this segment were scant, and made it seem as if it was going to be excruciatingly painful (couldn't name another Supreme Court case other than Roe v Wade, couldn't discuss another Supreme Court case other than Roe v Wade, stony silence when asked)... I prayed there would be more details that would make the inability to answer less damning. Talking Points has put the video up, and it's far less damning than it was reputed to be. http://www.samueljohnson.com/blog/archives/0810a.html#1a http://www.samueljohnson.com/blog/parchives/081002.html http://www.samueljohnson.com/blog/parchives/081001.html Bloomberg will apparently be seeking a third term as NYC Mayor; some think his stewardship will be especially valuable during financially tumultuous times. Doing so would require a change in the law, as there's a two term limit for the Mayor's office here. The idea is inviting unfair comparisons with the behavior of Rudy Giuliani in the days following 9/11, http://www.samueljohnson.com/blog/archives/0809c.html#30a