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Number of times the moderator said "Halliburton": 1
Number of times Dick Cheney said "Halliburton": 2
Number of times John Edwards said "Halliburton": 7
These results have a margin of plus or minus a bathroom break and the bits where I wasn't paying attention or couldn't hear.
Extra credit questions:
How many times did someone say "Enron"?
It just occured to me that since I'm not working the night desk anymore..."From the Night Desk" has even less of a connection to this thing than ever.
Finally got around to Thursday night's Daily Show with Jon Stewart. I'm all about the calling Robert Novak childish names, as I think I've mentioned before. But apperantly they've dropped "Robert Novak: A Douche Bag for Liberty" in favor of "Robert Novak AKA The Human Stain." That makes three digs at Novak in three days. Tuesday (August 10th) was "A Douche Bag of Liberty," Wednesday was "A Douche Bag for Liberty" and Thursday was "The Human Stain." All this, a revival of a joke around four and a half months old.
Which is only appropriate, I suppose, considering that the Joe Wilson/Plame/CIA outing scandal has finally reappeared in terms of media coverage.
As far as the current investigation, the contempt of court stuff, etc goes. Yes, I think Novak is putz to try to hide behind journalistic privilege after being blatently unethical. Yes, I think whoever leaked Plame's name in the first place should be punished to the fullest extent of the law. Do I think Matthew Cooper should be held in contempt? No. Do I think that getting to string up some bastard in the administration is worth having a high court set a precedent against federal legal protections for journalists regarding source confidentiality? Hell no.
How the hell do I not notice a trailer for Batman Begins? On top of that, how the hell did I miss them casting Christian Bale?
Being a filthy glutton for media at work, I was pointed to an older BBC Channel 4 special, Between Iraq and a Hard Place. It's really quite funny, and points out lovely things, like the similarities between Saddam's crimes and things the Brittish has already done. It's in Real Media, in 4 parts.
Creeeeeeeeepy
Funny
It takes a certain kind of stupid to run about with a metal tripod in a storm.
I'm that kind of stupid.
Oh yeah. Macaulay Fucking Culkin. On Fresh Air.
Weather.com lets you choose metric units instead of English units.
For some reason, I can not for the life of me get it to display forecasts in metric time.
This is irksome.
Quick plug: yesterday Dan "The Bassturd" Butler came in to town, to my suprise. And he's playing at Gabe's Oasis on Tuesday (tommorow, the 8th) with Ed Gray and a few other bands. So, people around the Iowa City area should come to the show. It's 19 and over and kicks off around 9. Which really means 10. I'm guessing $4-5 cover, but I really have no idea. Assuming I remember to bring stuff, I'll probably be taking some photos.
I've been meaning to drop this here, in an effort to google bait new agers. I wake up to the radio, generally NPR. For the last few weeks, I've been going in to work earlier than I used to on Saturdays. As a result, I've been catching bits of a little show called "New Dimensions." Just to give you an idea, their tag line is something like "Uncommon Wisdom for Unconventional Times, Changing the World One Broadcast at a Time."
Depending on exactly how they run things, I'm not sure if this link will work for terribly long, but give it a shot. It is a hoot.
Now, as a male, I don't want to come off like I even have an opinion on how a woman has a child. Want a cocktail of powerful narcotics and a c-section? Have at it. Want the old bucket of warm water and clean white sheets? Great, great. Want to pop it out squatting in a cave? Have it. Is it a spiritual thing? Is it a sterile medical thing? Make it what you want, that's fine by me.
That being said...come on now. Don't you think that falling back on exclusionary chauvinistic matriarchal manners of communication is counter productive? Do you really have to create terms to confuse people who aren't of the same cultural background?
Choice quotes:
No, it's not respected because it's not..."the scientific method", it's not rational, it's not linear and it's not manageable. What we see culture doing with women and their blood mysteries is number one: medicating. You know, medicating, subjugating and very often operating.
Ritual is such an important component, in my opinion, of circling. Where you drop out of ordinary reality for a while. And you do cast the circle, and you do call in the elements or call in the ancestors or call in the grandmothers or call in your allies or call in the greater wisdom or call in whatever spirit you count on to be with you and hold you and direct you.
I think the nature of the world we're in now is moving the genders closer together. I think the internet is a metaphor for how we're all being made to think in a circular fashion or a web-like fashion.
Which reminds me of a segment on CBC news that started with the line: Down on the farm...the internet farm!
That's right kids, public radio can be a bad influence.
