Watching the Presidential campaigns try to set expectations this week has been damn near hysterical. Every time big deadlines or big events roll around, the campaigns go further and further to make their guy look hapless, and make the other guy look like a rock star. It’s a delicate act of setting the
When I was in high school I sat and watched the Iran-Contra hearings. After lengthy investigations and a lot of testimony, I learned one of the most valuable political lessons. I call it the William Casey Defense. Much of the Iran-Contra scandal was laid at Casey’s feet, but he was incapacitated with
Mrs. Quip and I recently bought a brand spanking new HDTV. We’ve been very happy with the purchase with the exception of one thing – the ridiculous price of HDMI cables charged at Best Buy and Circuit City. Now I’ve been a technophile for a long time now, and
In the last 72 hours, I have been quoted by various media outlets on topics ranging from the ability to convert online supporters into offline activists to Playboy models and transsexual hookers escorts.
Don’t see the connection? It all has to do with MySpace, and my unique ability to
Assuming the ranks of our US Attorney corps is to be filled with political hacks skilled in tearing down candidates, the first guy up for that post in an Obama/Clinton administration will apparently be Michael Gehrke. I received an e-mail from him today.
As the new Research Director at the DNC, I’m working to build
An interesting article in The Register today paints the Net Neutrality debate as a uniquely American phenomenon.
What emerged from the sessions is that ‘Neutrality’ is one of those incomprehensible American phenomenons, from which we’ve mercifully escaped. Your reporter was one of those invited to give a briefing – having reported on the issue
When ABC announced it would air Lost in sort of a broken schedule with 8 episodes in the fall and 16 in the spring (with a mind-numbing 3 months in between) I was unthrilled. I had been one of the people bitching about the week-on-three-weeks-off schedule from last year, but this seemed worse.
I’ve spent more than a few bytes on the subject of the .xxx top level domain (TLD) since I launched this blog. Every time it comes around again, I start harping on the topic and urging rather short sighted people to get behind this idea.
Porn sites are largely concerned that the domain
I jokingly referred recently to the odd dichotomy of DC laws that prevent you from voting or owning a gun, but seem to protect corruption in government. Little did I realize that my creation of a confluence of gun control and voting rights laws would be adopted by the GOP caucus as
I’ve added a couple of new features in the last couple of days. First, all the posts now include Digg options. If you see something interesting, feel free to Digg it. Second, I’ve added a feature I like at the moment (Snap Previews), but it might get really