August 30, 2005
Cotillion For This Week
The wonderful
American Princess took it upon herself to do the whole Cotillion Ball this week. Having done one fourth of the hosting myself, i have to tip my hat to her, it is quite a task, and she did a great job. Go take a look at the best work from the members of the Cotillion
here. And if i may highlight one selection, please don't miss Beth's retelling of
her visit to Camp Reality in Crawford, Texas.
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August 29, 2005
Something Wrong With Comments?
Some of you have emailed me with rejected comments. i don't know why they're being rejected, but it's not my doing and i have no control over the filter. It may have something to do with the recent mu.nu server problem and hopefully it will only be temporary. Feel free to email me with your compliments or vitriol, in the meantime.
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The only major problem I've had is that your comments window never remembers my personal info. Aside from that, no problem.
Kevin
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Who are you again? Do i know you?
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Annie, I tried a few posts and all were rejected.
Let me know when this problem is fixed or you move from mu.nu.
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August 24, 2005
Mu.nu Back Up
Many thanks to
Beth,
Michelle and
Basil for allowing the free trackbacks and links while Mu.nu was down.
Since the blog was unavailable for most of Tuesday, i will extend the Final Jeopardy deadline until 11:59 p.m. Pacific time, Thursday night. Or until all players have submitted their responses. Right now, we're still waiting for Charlie, Skippy and Jasen.
For future reference, my old Blogspot blog will be my backup blog. You can find it at http://annikagyrl.blogspot.com/ or just google "blogspot annika."
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I'd like to shut down my Blogger site, but it still has roughly 2000 old posts. I can't transfer to MuNu more than 999 posts at one time (somehow I got to over 1200). Pixy knows about the problem but doesn't seem to know what to do about it. I've asked fellow Munuvians about how to get my categories to work, and with exception of one patient Canadian blogger, everyone either ignores you or just directs you to someone else whenever you have a problem or question. Then in the last 3 months, the servers have been shut down atleast 3 times.
Pardon me if I am not impressed.
Posted by: Mark at August 24, 2005 01:36 PM (Vg0tt)
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Then there's Munuvians like Mark who, when handed $100, get angry because it's not $101. Whiner.
Posted by: Victor at August 24, 2005 05:21 PM (l+W8Z)
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The pain is endless.
Go Google yourself.
Posted by: shelly at August 24, 2005 08:12 PM (M7kiy)
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Welcome back. I was on vacation/business travel for three weeks and didn't read much of anything, and when I went to visit your journal, I ran into the munu problems. So I had to do my American Skankwoman research
all by myself. As Barbie would say, "American Skankwoman research is hard."
Again, welcome back. And I'd like to buy a vowel. (Oops, wrong game.)
Posted by: Ontario Emperor at August 25, 2005 08:21 AM (bGyIu)
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It doesn't matter OE. You could win yet. The rules here are very flexible and as amorphous as the mind of a woman.
Posted by: Casca at August 25, 2005 08:36 AM (qBTBH)
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So, Annika... the chickens come home to roost! We won't be hearing any more "Glogger" cracks in the future, will weeeeeeee? Having a paid site is no guarantee of reliability! Mooooo-ha ha ha ha!
Kevin
not really a Blogger advocate, but hoping to play one on TV
Posted by: Kevin Kim at August 26, 2005 06:31 AM (TDwc6)
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I used to have a dog like Annika. Every couple of months, he'd disappear for a couple days at a time. Then he'd come back looking a little worse for the wear and tear. Cuts, hungover, once he had burn marks in his fur. I guess we've all been there. They say all the dogs in town look like him now. I never go back there.
Posted by: Casca at August 27, 2005 10:04 AM (qBTBH)
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Casca, I had a cat just like that...Big Cat Stud was his name ("Stubby" to his friends). Once he disappeared for about a week and I figured he had been hit by a car. He came home, ate like a pig, then slept for two days straight. My roommate and I figured he was AFO'd.
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August 23, 2005
August 22, 2005
California Handgun Safety Certificate
i took the California Handgun Safety Certificate written test last weekend and passed with flying colors. That means that the State of California has deemed me worthy to purchase a handgun within the next five years if i so choose.
The test is so easy even one of Victor's rats could pass it (assuming that Victor has taught them how to read, as i'm sure he has). But the State of California still got 25 bucks out of me for the privilege of taking the test.
Publicola fisked the test's review booklet and showed how, despite the simplicity of the questions, even an expert can have trouble. This sample question seems to have tripped him up:
Hmmm. They have a self test.
'Safety Rule Number Two is keep
the gun pointed:
A. To the north.
B. In the safest possible direction.
C. Up.
D. Down.'
Well being a Southerner I gotta go with A. . . . we never really trusted those damn yankees . . .
Very funny.
Publicola was also nice enough to answer two questions i posed to him:
if Cali does not have the worst gun laws in the country, who does? and on a related note . . . Are there any decently industrialized nations that recognize the rights of gun owners similar to or better than the US?
You can read
his answers here.
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August 20, 2005
Boomer Deathwatch
i discovered an interesting niche blog this morning,
Boomer Deathwatch. It's about that old Gen X - Boomer antipathy. i consider myself a Gen Xer, so i can relate to a lot of it. Here's an excerpt from the top post:
In the meantime, I worked minimum wage jobs and buffed up my political and social paranoia, built out of bits and pieces of leftover 60s radical rhetoric. Reagan was evil; Thatcher was a witch; the CIA pulled the strings; the Joint Chiefs of Staff and their counterparts at the Kremlin were glaring at each other over some future battlefield, wracked with nervous ticks and drenched with booze-soaked flopsweat, and one day they'd go too far and blow us all to kingdom come. There was no good or evil, or it was all evil, or we all had the potential for good. I don't know, it changed all the time, depending on what I was reading.
Then the 80s boom ended and the Wall fell and I finally got tired of being afraid and confused. More to the point, I got tired of letting fear and ignorance dictate how I saw the world, so I started reading books, some of which I didn't agree with at first. I stopped reading music magazines and started reading about economics, if only to find out just why all of the magazines I'd worked for as a freelance writer and photographer came and went in such regular cycles.
I was 'empowering myself'. Sure. Basically I was trying to peek my head up over the surging boomer crest ahead of me before the building echo wave behind me swept me down again. There had to be more to be seen or heard than the surging spectacle of sex, drugs and rock and roll that had been the backdrop for my whole life. If it looked like I'd never afford a house or a family, at least I wanted to know why I didn't die in a nuclear holocaust, or live in the Orwellian 'security state' of total surveillance and mind control that so many of my peers seemed to think was inevitable - indeed, already here, if you listened to many of them.
i was born later than the authors of this blog, so i don't have the same reference point they do on Carter, Punk, Disco, etc. (i read Douglas Coupland one night, yawned and promptly dismissed it.) But i get the whole "Boomers ruined it for us" meme.
i remember when Time ran that cover story about Gen X back in the eighties and it wasn't too flattering. And this whole shit storm erupted about whether Gen Xers were slackers, and why the Boomers were so bitter about the next generation.
Then the conflict seemed to die down, sometime in the late nineties perhaps. Boomers started to realize with their mortality staring them in the face, that their entire life could not be the big self-indulgent youth movement they thought it would be. And that Gen-Xers weren't all lazy cynics, and they didn't necessarily want or need to follow in the Boomers' footsteps either.
By the way, i recently saw The Big Chill for the first time on DVD. i'd heard so much about that movie that i figured i was missing out for having never seen it. i was wrong. i didn't miss a darn thing.
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Absolutely, you missed nothing. Don't get me wrong, there was a lot of good entertainment from the 60's and 70's but there was even more crap.
I was on the tale end of the boomers. I graduated college in 1980. I saw all the selfindulgent, narcisstic dip weeds who were a little older than me and tried not to be like them.
I usually found myself working alongside younger people and so I developed an affinity to the Gen X crowd. I think Gen X'ers and the current crop of young people are so much more normal than the Boomer generations.
They were the most self absorbed, self destructive, and sheep like fad followers ever.
Posted by: Kyle at August 20, 2005 02:49 PM (4t42C)
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The only thing that makes me a boomer is my age.
I don't know anybody who is remotely like a character in The Big Chill. I suspect they are as representative of most boomers as the cast of Real World is to most of today's college students.
I could easily slander my parents generation, who never hesitate to vote themselves bigger Social Security benefits out of the paychecks of their children. They were also the folks who won WWII. You'd have to go back to the Civil War to find Americans who sacrificed more.
I'd give the boomers some credit for improvements in Civil Rights, balanced against a lot of destructive, self indulgent behavior and the shameful betrayal of our Vietnamese allies. Does winning the Cold War count for anythinng?
The Big Chill is OK, but I'm more Animal House or American Graffiti.
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Annika - for an interesting perspective on generations, read Strauss and Howe.
Generations: The History of America's Future
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August 17, 2005
Celebrating My Alliance-Versary
Two years ago last Monday, i joined the
Alliance of Free Blogs by posting a rousing call to arms which i'm reprinting below. Just cuz i like it.
To set the stage for those of you who don't remember the Great Blog War, it was Frank J of IMAO who whipped up a tongue-in-cheek battle* between him and Glenn Reynolds over something. i don't remember exactly what. But Frank came up with the idea for the Alliance and Susie and Harvey took it from there. After much hemming and hawing, i joined up in the following spectacularly pompous way.
more...
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Running out of stuff to blog about, eh?
Posted by: Victor at August 17, 2005 08:16 AM (L3qPK)
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hey victor, don't laugh, you were there at the beginning too.
Posted by: annie at August 17, 2005 08:23 AM (wSYlS)
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I wish I could 111 visitors a day. Ingrates!
Posted by: M at August 17, 2005 08:27 AM (Vg0tt)
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111 visitors per day? Wow, I'd be thrilled with that high of a number. I keep hitting my laptop like one does to a sticky gauge just to see if the count will go up. Up doesn't by the way.
Congrats by the way. There is a certain Bushian quality to your proclimation, that is quite endearing.
Posted by: Pursuit at August 17, 2005 08:46 AM (n/TNS)
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So joining the Alliance and becoming assimilated into the munu collective seems to be the ticket to bloggy happiness and high hit counts.
I attribute most of my 30-40 readers/day to lost souls wandering in from a misguided Google search. Maybe if I became assimilated I could make the grand leap from being a lone blogger writing in obscurity, to becoming a member of a vast collective, writing in obscurity.
At the very least I could bypass the shame and humiliation inherent (given my moniker) in being called a "flappy bird" or an "adorable rodent" by the bear.
Posted by: Desert Cat at August 17, 2005 12:02 PM (1NG8F)
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Desert Cat, if you'd like to come to Munuvia, say the word. I think annika and I could swing it.
Posted by: Victor at August 17, 2005 04:28 PM (l+W8Z)
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Yah Cat. Resistance is futile.
Posted by: annika at August 17, 2005 05:54 PM (6etgS)
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The formula for a high hit count seems simple... tits and ass. Need I say more?
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August 16, 2005
Cotillion Ball
This week's
Cotillion Ball is a lot of fun.
RightGirl celebrates Elvis Presley,
A Mom And Her Blog stirs up a hurricane,
Mary Katharine Ham, who's been
all over the place lately, presents some Hollywood leading ladies, and
Not A Desperate Housewife shares some beauty tips, not that she needs any herself.
And finally, don't forget to check out the Bonfire Of The Vanities. i'm in it this "weak."
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Great Cotillion Ball; it just made my morning to see Audrey Hepburn. With the exception of my wife--and, of course, Annika--she was the most beautiful woman ever to grace the world with her presence.
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how sweet, sub-human, thank you.
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August 10, 2005
August 05, 2005
Jeopardy On Another Channel
i have been remiss in not alerting you to Scorebard's Jeopardy game with a baseball/poetry theme over at
Humbug Journal. The game is ongoing right now, and while Scorebard was inspired by the game here, his clues are much harder. i haven't gotten one yet.
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August 02, 2005
Hans Island Fight
i think you all know who's side i'm taking in
this controversy.
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I just hope we notify the United Nations before anyone does anything. You know, "global tests" or something.
Posted by: Mark at August 02, 2005 02:12 AM (GVB1B)
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My money is on Denmark. They ought to have a beer brew off to settle the dispute.
I volunteer to be an impartial judge.
Posted by: Kyle at August 02, 2005 03:39 AM (H5KE9)
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This is unbelievable. The island just looks Canadian so it should go to Canada.
Simple.
Posted by: d-rod at August 02, 2005 05:59 AM (egNZz)
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What are they gonna do? Have a slap fight?
Posted by: ken at August 02, 2005 07:41 AM (xD5ND)
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I dunno about Denmark winning the brew off, there are some exceptionally good Belgian Style Beers that are brewed in Canada. Then again not everyone is in to Belgian Style Beers.
The other thing about this land dispute....no buses have been blow up.
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i think its best to let the island belong to the people of the nations... dang! due to blobal warming countries are fighting for the north... lines are being drawn! that is why there's this dispure over a tiny island like Hans!!!
Posted by: maizzy at August 02, 2005 08:40 AM (t5V9d)
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No, Pirate, but Garry Busey has blown up. Have you seen that dude lately? He must be like 300 lbs.
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If this comes down to a vote the Danes would automatically win one demographic. Any man who's been to Danmark and seen the women is not going to pick Canada.
Posted by: Trevor at August 02, 2005 09:42 AM (RwZxT)
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I second Trevor's comments:
http://www.troniu.dk/index.php?c=1042
Posted by: Scof at August 02, 2005 09:47 AM (7z8ua)
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Last time I saw Busey, other than on thesmokinggun.com, was the show on comedy central, where was fat and batshit crazy.
Posted by: the Pirate at August 02, 2005 10:57 AM (SksyN)
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Annika, thank you for linking to us at Independent Sources. We simply cannot get off this incredibly fast paced, high action drama...CRISIS in the ARCTIC!
Posted by: Insider at August 02, 2005 11:35 AM (m9bOd)
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Maybe they could, like, have a hockey game between two national teams to settle it, eh?
Posted by: tdothen at August 02, 2005 04:59 PM (sxki2)
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I've known Busey since 1982 and he was certifiable then. Crazy is not new to him.
Nor is bloat. However, he looks recently like he's sucking on an air hose or something.
I sat next to him at the House of Blues ;ast year and he took up two stools, no kidding.
Out of work actors are dangerous to themselves...
But, he does play mean drums, under the name of Teddy Jack Eddy.
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Shelly, you are one interesting guy.
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To Kyle and the Pirat
Danes has created the worlds first open source beer (Our Beer). http://www.voresoel.dk/main.php?id=70
Doesn't that speen in our favour?
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My money is on Denmark, my homecountry. Wouldn't it be ironic though, if the island disappears by itself in a few years due to global warming and rising sealevels?
Posted by: Erik at August 06, 2005 02:10 AM (YQMeR)
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Regarding global warming, see Bjorn Lomborg's "The Skeptical Environmentalist."
Posted by: Mark at August 07, 2005 02:18 PM (PjRZw)
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I have actually read that book... seems like we have (almost) nothing to worry about...
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August 01, 2005
Least Favorite People On The Right
Right Wing News had a poll of conservative bloggers to select the
"Least Favorite People On The Right." the results were:
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Tom Tancredo (4)
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Ralph Reed (4)
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Newt Gingrich (4)
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Lincoln Chafee (4)
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James Dobson (4)
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George Pataki (4)
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Arnold Schwarzenegger (4)
14) Tom DeLay (5)
14) Rush Limbaugh (5)
14) George Voinovich (5)
14) Chuck Hagel (5)
13) Andrew Sullivan (6)
11) Tucker Carlson (7)
11) Bob Novak (7)
9) Sean Hannity (
9) Rick Santorum (
Arlen Specter (10)
7) Jerry Falwell (15.5)
6) Bill O'Reilly (16)
5) Michael Savage (17)
4) Pat Robertson (19.5)
3) Ann Coulter (20)
2) John McCain (21)
1) Pat Buchanan (2
i voted for Pat, and i'm glad to see he's number one. That guy is so anti-semitic, i can't believe they ever allow him on tv. Savage is an annoying freak. When he rants, he makes Buchanan seem reasonable. But while Savage is still a bigot, at least on the subject of Israel we see eye-to-eye.
i don't understand why so many people voted for McCain, Specter, Hagel, Voinovich, Chafee and Andy Sullivan. i thought the question was to vote for your least favorite person on the right. i didn't vote for them because it never crossed my mind that they were conservatives. McCain has his moments, but the rest of those people are to the left of Hillary Clinton. The new Hillary, that is.
My submissions were these guys:
The aforementioned Michael Savage and Pat Buchanan.
Jerry Fallwell and Pat Robertson who've done more to empower the ACLU than anyone in America. i added Dr. Dobson, who is the new Jerry Fallwell. He bugs the crap out of me. i heard him talk about the fillibuster controversy, and he really shouldn't ever talk politics. His grasp of constitutional history is at about eight grade level. i was like, "thanks for the effort doc, but we'll take it from here."
Rick Santorum. Bigot. Stuck his foot in his mouth too many times, and he'll continue to do so. If he get's nominated, say hello to America's first woman president.
Tucker Carlson, milquetoast. He's mis-labeled as a conservative, but he's an empty shell; the Alan Colmes of the right. Like Pat Buchanan he's a media darling because he's anti-war. Otherwise, nobody'd ever let him near a tv studio because he's un-watchable. Un-watchable.
Bob Novak, never liked him. Yah, i know he's a legend, but his best days ended before i was born. And i'm saying this totally exclusive of the whole Plamegate involvement thing. He pretty much mails it in nowadays. Much like i do on this here blog.
My last choice was kind of mean, but what the hell: Paul Harvey. He's like that old crotchety grampa that you love to death, but somebody should really take the keys away; you know what i mean? Don't get me wrong, i'm glad Paul Harvey's out there because a lot of people get their politics solely from his little blurbs. But i started changing the channel when i hear him on the radio. Too many times i got pissed at myself for wasting three minutes of my precious radio listening time with that bs.
And now you know the rest of the story.
Good day.
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Can't disagree with anything you have written. Well done.
Posted by: Jake at August 01, 2005 08:02 AM (r/5D/)
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Why was the "New" Hillary left of this list? She would have been a lock for Numero Uno.
P.S. I loved the long pause; how poetic...
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I think it's sad that your choices and the choice of so many others are right-wingers that are bad because they're "too right-wing." Why not put the moderates up there; so-called right-wingers like George W.
As for Pat on Israel, he's a fierce critic, but that's better than the dual-loyalty-freaks like Kristol and Krauthammer that see no distinction of interests whatsoever, for whom a sacrificial war on Israel's behalf is a good thing in their minds. Washington warned against this sort of thing. Why are we still sending them billions after the cold war ended; isn't this kind of silly?
Posted by: Roach at August 01, 2005 08:32 AM (MRlvg)
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I don't necessarily agree with a lot of your choices, but the long pause.... good day made me fall out of my chair laughing. And it's impossible to say that and not upspeak it in his old man voice.
Posted by: Charlie Gordon at August 01, 2005 09:21 AM (D3+20)
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Heh... I had exactly the same thought re: McCain and
being on the right. That's partly what gave me fits about coming up with a list of my own. A lot of the people I came up with were either extremists or milquetoasts.
Nice job.
Posted by: Cassandra at August 01, 2005 11:21 AM (eKdAq)
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OMG. Even funnier. I didn't read your whole post.
I
loathe Tucker Carlson, and "milquetoast" is the exact word I would have used to describe him.
Too funny. I have GOT to stop multi-tasking...
Posted by: Cassandra, snarking from the sidelines at August 01, 2005 11:23 AM (eKdAq)
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Bob Novak, never liked him. Yah, i know he's a legend, but his best days ended before i was born.
thanks for summarizing my life,
annie.
Posted by: louielouie at August 01, 2005 11:34 AM (xKfMm)
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Interesting choices, Annie. Paul Harvey has bugged the shit out of me since I started listenting to talk radio as a kid. I hate it when he goes from story to commercial without any sort of transition. The only thing worse is that now his kid is trying to imitate him----silly old-man voice and all.
Savage is just too much. Even when I agree with his message, I'm turned off by the delivery. If I'm going to listen to a cultural conservative, I much prefer Michael Medved: smart, precise, and polite.
I'm absolutely with you on Dobson, Fallwell, and Robertson. Please guys, stick to Christian radio and stop embarrassing us. Dobson is actually fairly interesting and knowledgable when he sticks to his area of expertise.
Posted by: Blu at August 01, 2005 12:59 PM (j8oa6)
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WOW! where to begin. Coulter and Savage are simply hate mongers, they are embarrasing. Buchanan can be dismissed because he has lost almost all of his influence.
As for politicians, I think you will always find some people who dislike a particular issue or two.
I dont dislike McCain, but I think he is an overambitious media whore, and that little McCain-Feingold run around the first amendment is not cool. Besides, he has tiny little T-Rex hands.
I like Tucker Carlson, his new show is fairly entertaining. Sure he dosent mix it up, thats not his style, but he gets his point across.
As for the religious conservatives, The media will always go after the most obnoxious one for sound bites, nothing you can do about that.
Posted by: Kyle at August 01, 2005 02:55 PM (H5KE9)
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Lighten up a little, please. Ann Coulter is way over the top, but funny. Just tune out the excess. Watching a liberal swallow his/her tongue is amusing.
I have no idea why Hannity and Gingrich made this list.
Chafee, Pataki, Schwartzenegger, Voinovich, Hagel, Sullivan, and O'Reilly are on the right? I must be out of the mainstream.
McCain gets my vote. The man's a hero and an idiot.
Posted by: MarkD at August 01, 2005 03:35 PM (nQAo8)
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i can't figure McCain out. The man's a legitimate hero, but he loves being a Senator more than representing his constituency. i also agree that Coulter is unfairly criticized. She's a humorist, and a good one. No one should take her too seriously.
Small hands are usually a warning sign though. Of what is anyone's guess.
Posted by: annika at August 01, 2005 03:44 PM (zAOEU)
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So how long are you going to keep throwing gas on the fire to boost controversy? Why not just lift the shirt the rest of the way?
You're wrong, Pat isn't an anti-semite. It's pathetic when you can't criticize AIPAC and the influence that Israel has in our international policy without being called a Nazi.
Finally... remember Ronald Reagan's eleventh commandmant. Unless you're talking about Spectre, then the gloves are off.
Posted by: Casca at August 01, 2005 06:55 PM (qBTBH)
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Casca, James Bond (the Connery one i think) took care of
Spectre a long time ago. Get with the program.
Posted by: annika at August 01, 2005 07:26 PM (UV8Xg)
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Ya know, Arlen's been lookin' a little like Blofeld lately......
Posted by: reagan80 at August 01, 2005 07:43 PM (zqYP3)
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i never thought of that until now, but he does look a little Donald Pleasance-ish. All he needs is a scar and a cat.
Posted by: annika at August 01, 2005 08:12 PM (UV8Xg)
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Agreed on most everything, but I'm still not sure how Santorum's a "bigot." Why is it when Christian/Catholics have strongly held views, they're deemed "bigots"? Edumacate me here, someone.
McCain = RINO.
Tucker Carlson looks like he was conceived in a petri dish.
Coulter is amusing and intelligent, but her emotions tend to control her, and she defines TACTLESS. She cares nothing for who she offends, or how she offends them. I do admire her to a point, but it's a matter of minutes when she talks before I cringe in agony.
I've never heard Savage on the radio, but the titles of his books scream "I am a lunatic."
Buchanan is just unlikeable. Doesn't matter what he says, he's just not very nice, not very interesting.
Posted by: Mark at August 01, 2005 11:12 PM (SCyTi)
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I never gave Paul Harvey a second thought until a couple of years ago. When Mt. Lemmon outside of Tucson was burning, he mentioned it on his show and blithely got several important facts quite wrong. Then shortly thereafter he unloaded some misleading BS about Salvia divinorum. So I have no confidence whatsoever now that he's really giving me "the r-r-r-rest! of the story", and not some dressed up tripe that just sounds good on the radio.
And you already know how I feel about McCain.
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