Archive for September, 2010
Run ‘Stache Run: John Bolton for Veep?
I don’t know that he’d win, but if John Bolton made a serious run for the 2012 Republican nomination, it would make the race very interesting. Bolton, a sometimes controversial diplomat who served as ambassador to the U.N. from August 2005 through December 2006 for then-President George W. Bush, flirted with the idea of challenging [...]
When a Snide Left-Winger Gives You Lemons, Make Awesome Conservative Lemonade
New Jersey Governor and new conservative hero Chris Christie is at it again. He attended a town hall meeting in Raritan, NJ and, during the question and answer period, took a question from a local elementary school teacher. Technically, I call it a question because it had a question mark at the end. Really, what [...]
“What Did You Do In School Today?” “Not Much. Crashed a Satellite”
I never got to do anything this cool in my college days. When a NASA satellite met its doom in a fiery blaze in Earth’s atmosphere after a seven-year mission, a bunch of college students were at the controls. But these students didn’t hack into NASA to take the satellite for a destructive joyride — [...]
Is President Obama a Jimi Hendrix Fan? I Dunno, Was Hendrix Into Mom Jeans?
By now I’m sure you’ve heard that the President got a little colloquial in his Labor Day speech before a friendly Big Labor crowd in Wisconsin. He was doing fine until he decided to improvise about the “powerful interests” who talk about him “like a dog”. This got the blogosphere buzzing. Most of the folks [...]
The Delivery Presents – The Iron Lady, But Not The Iron Chef.
Sometimes I put shows together without regarding whether the two halves make a lot of sense together. Usually, when I’m doing a solo show, that doesn’t matter. I can tie topics together across the break if I need to (though usually I don’t). With guests, though, it’s often handy to have a little continuity from [...]
The Delivery Presents – Live, From Two Campaign Trails
I know. I’m late in getting this post on Episode 53 up. I have reasons — good ones — but I won’t get into them here. Suffice it to say that they weren’t as dire as the ones that kept Jake Blues from the altar, but they were good. But now, as the Contours one [...]
That’s What You Said