Saturday, June 30, 2012
Sunday, June 24, 2012
Obama Event Registry
In case the recent $40,000 a plate celebrity fund raiser at Sarah Jessica Parker's Manhattan brownstone wasn't enough to alienate voters, the Obama Biden 2012 campaign has doubled down, defining new boundaries for crassness and hucksterism.
A few months ago it was the Dinner with Barack promotion. No, you don't actually need to make a financial contribution but that's like thinking you'll win the Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes without buying a magazine subscription.
Then came the online campaign store that makes Obama Biden 2012 merchandise for every occasion, including to wear your gender, religion, ethnicity, sexual preference and other secondary characteristics to being an eligible voter on a t-shirt that shills for the President.
And now we have the Obama Event Registry where the campaign suggests you forgo your birthday presents and wedding gifts to make a contribution to the campaign instead, and we quote: "It’s a gift that we can all appreciate—and goes a lot further than a gravy bowl." Read a few of the more than 1,400 comments on the site.
Rumor has it that when Obama loses this November, he will cancel Christmas.
A few months ago it was the Dinner with Barack promotion. No, you don't actually need to make a financial contribution but that's like thinking you'll win the Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes without buying a magazine subscription.
Then came the online campaign store that makes Obama Biden 2012 merchandise for every occasion, including to wear your gender, religion, ethnicity, sexual preference and other secondary characteristics to being an eligible voter on a t-shirt that shills for the President.
And now we have the Obama Event Registry where the campaign suggests you forgo your birthday presents and wedding gifts to make a contribution to the campaign instead, and we quote: "It’s a gift that we can all appreciate—and goes a lot further than a gravy bowl." Read a few of the more than 1,400 comments on the site.
Rumor has it that when Obama loses this November, he will cancel Christmas.
Friday, June 22, 2012
Slow Food Martha's Vineyard
Fun and good food for all at the Slow Food Martha's Vineyard summer solstice picnic at the Allen Farm in Chilmark.
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Bloomberg's Paternalism Redux
Mayor Bloomberg is at it again. This time the target is 32 ounce sodas. And once again The New Yorker has some fun at the Mayor's expense.
What compels Bloomberg to tilt at the windmills of sugar and salt? And how does he reconcile shilling for Nathan's annual hot dog eating contest where he invokes our right to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?"
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| Soda Noir ~ Owen Smith |
What compels Bloomberg to tilt at the windmills of sugar and salt? And how does he reconcile shilling for Nathan's annual hot dog eating contest where he invokes our right to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?"
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
You are not special
A welcome and contrarian commencement speech, delivered so well by David McCullough,Jr., English teacher at Wellesley High School and son of historian David McCullough.
"Selflessness is the best thing you can do for yourself." Hear it all below.
"Selflessness is the best thing you can do for yourself." Hear it all below.
Monday, June 11, 2012
Sunday, June 10, 2012
A Better Amercia
The Romney campaign is trying to improve its online game, including a new iPhone app called "With Mitt" that let's "you customize photos with a variety of Mitt-inspired artistic frames, add personalized messages, and then share with your friends via email, Facebook or Twitter."
It's off to an embarrassing start.
Saturday, June 9, 2012
Take Me Out to the Ballgame
Thoroughly enjoyed last night's first of three games between the New York Yankees and New York Mets in this season's first "Subway Series." The pre-game buzz was all about Mets pitcher Johan Santana, who threw the Mets' first-ever "no hitter" his last game in the Mets rotation last Friday.
Santana's luck ran out last night, giving up six runs, including four home runs with three back to back homers by Robinson Cano, Nick Swisher and Andruw Jones in the fourth. Cano hit two homers, both two-run shots with Alex Rodriguez on base.
Yankees ace Hiroki Kuroda had his own no-hitter going through six innings, leaving the game after getting drilled by a line drive in the foot with the ball bouncing up in the air and into Alex Rodriguez's glove for the seventh inning's third out. He left the stadium on crutches.
As usual, Yankee fans sang and danced to the Village People's YMCA in the fifth inning, and one of the fan crowd shots on the Diamondvision screen was of Randy Jones, the disco era band's iconic cowboy.
Santana's luck ran out last night, giving up six runs, including four home runs with three back to back homers by Robinson Cano, Nick Swisher and Andruw Jones in the fourth. Cano hit two homers, both two-run shots with Alex Rodriguez on base.
Yankees ace Hiroki Kuroda had his own no-hitter going through six innings, leaving the game after getting drilled by a line drive in the foot with the ball bouncing up in the air and into Alex Rodriguez's glove for the seventh inning's third out. He left the stadium on crutches.
As usual, Yankee fans sang and danced to the Village People's YMCA in the fifth inning, and one of the fan crowd shots on the Diamondvision screen was of Randy Jones, the disco era band's iconic cowboy.
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Barack's Excuses
The media are fawning over the President's common touch demonstrated by the school absence excuse he wrote for a Minnesota fifth grader. No question it was a nice gesture, and an even better campaign photo opp and wire service story.
The Wall Street Journal makes the much more salient point about excuses.
The Wall Street Journal makes the much more salient point about excuses.
Sunday, June 3, 2012
Saturday, June 2, 2012
How to Die
No sooner did I ding Time and Newsweek for their MSM irrelevance and declining circulations then Time publishes Joe Klein's cover story, The Long Goodbye, about the trials of end of life care and modern medicine. The cover has a more sensational How to Die headline on an emergency red background. Either way, it's something most baby boomers are dealing with, for better or worse.
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