So. I made it through the President’s speech without getting angry or upset. What struck me the most about it is that he is not the greatest of public speakers. Alright that has probably been said before. What also struck me is that he smirks a lot. Should the president of the greatest nation display how immature he is on national TV? Let me echo Brad DeLong in asking, “When will the grownup Republicans stand up and take control of their party?”
The Republican National Convention wraps up tonight with the President’s speech. I don’t know about you, but it is very hard to keep from vomiting when listening to this guy speak. Yet, I must in order to know what to formulate counter arguments against fools that believe him to be the best thing since slice bread.
Welcome to the first post of September or as I like to call it, News Radio quote month here at BrowserMetrics. Like I said before, I want to use this schtick to highlight the great mid-nineties show News Radio, and to help my writing/blogging.
What should the first post be? I’ll make it about News Radio. If you don’t know about it check out the entry here on IMDB. Or read a fascinating article of the characters’ inter-relationship here (PDF) found at this site, NewsRadioArt.com. Hopefully that will get you started on your quest to learn all about this great sitcom. And if you really want to see it, you can catch it on the Bio Channel at 11:00 PM EST or check your local TV Guide for details.
(No this will not become a site dedicated to this show. Just want to throw a little appreciation its way.)
I use a Mac at home. I love the Mac, and today, Bare Bones Software has released BBEdit 8.0. This is “Software that doesn’t suck.” On each and every platform that I use I am always looking for the text editor that meets the standards set by BBEdit. On the Unix workstations, we used emacs. I got used to it. Sometimes, I would launch a file in vi just to get comfortable with the “more weird than emacs” keystroke combinations. Shift-Z-Z? On PCs, I quickly abandoned TextPad and WordPad looking for a BBEdit port. No such luck. The closest so far has been VisualSlickEdit. It is still no BBEdit.
Run out and get the latest version of the best piece of software ever written.
Shamelessly stealing from the ingenuously named A Perfectly Cromulent Blog, I have decided that every post in September will have a quote from the under-appreciated News Radio. Hopefully, this will jump start my blogging as I have slowed down during the past month. I don’t think that the quote will match up with the post, but I’ll try. Stop in next month and join in my remembrance of the greatest sitcom ever.
Another weekend and another movie. This time it was the Chinese epic, Hero. If you loved Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, then this one is for you. A blend of martial arts, Chinese history and a star-crossed love story, Hero goes for all. I rather liked it, but why are these things so melodramatic.
4 of 5 stars.
On Monday, I caught Zack Braff’s Garden State at the local cineplex. I knew it to be a small, personal, independent-minded film, but I also thought it was supposed to be a comedy. Not much to laugh at, but then it wasn’t supposed to be a true comedy. It was another small, personal independent film. Like they all are. I haven’t seen one like since the great indy film boom of the early 90s. As an indy film, it is mediocre at best. I think I have seen it before. Anyway, the only thing of note that I left with from the movie is that George Lucas needs to apologize to Natalie Portman for sticking her in that wooden role of Princess Amidala. He needs to be punched in the nose. Can someone do it?
3 of 5 stars.
Here are two links which sum up my opinion of the president perfectly. Josh Marshall and Matthew Yglesias take down the silly man in the white house better than I could ever have done. Marshall portrays the president as a man of low moral courage. He lets others do the dirty work for him. I agree. It fits the man who has hardly earned things on his own. Yglesias portrays the president as a man of low intelligence. He is not actively engaging his intellect when trying to define his policies. Marshall’s portrait of the president is a direct consequence of the lack of brains that the president has exhibited.
I am done my political rant for the week.
Blogger just added a neat-o tool bar up top. It has a site search. That’s good, so I just commented out the Google search in the sidebar. Use it to search my site for some more of my posts.
