Right off the bat, Romney hits us with some unscripted juice. “My, oh my, you guys are great to be out here with this rain,” he says. He has declined the use of an umbrella and is getting rained on with the rest of us. He grins, jaw like a crescent moon. “This guy here with the orange shirt—boy, that thing is turning a diff…a deeper color of orange here this morning.” The man’s shirt is turning a deeper color... Read more
If any single speaker at the Democratic National Convention decides to, even slightly, make fun of Clint Eastwood. The media and faux-outrage machine would collapse on the Time Warner Cable Arena like a ton of bricks, each of which would then be thrown through every Democratic office-holder’s window with threatening notes attached. And I fully expect this to happen. Leave it to the Democrats to find the one rake laying in a huge open field and step directly on it. Read more
Matthews said he told the rowdy group, “What’s this, a douchebag convention? Chris Matthews gets into confrontation with GOP delegates – The Hill Why, yes it is. Read more
We’re in a panic, as a nation, that we don’t work hard enough, and blame this iniquity for our “decline.” God—the one who blesses America—is withdrawing his favor. Hence the sanctimoniousness with which the topic of work is approached. If you don’t work as hard as people think you should, you’re not just morally inferior, you’re committing a kind of spiritual treason. And if you deny the value of work as a matter of principle, you’re treated like a heretic.... Read more
Romney was recorded saying this: There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that’s an entitlement. And the government should give it to them.... Read more
Not all of my bloggy energies are spent here at the Object. No, nor are they exclusive to the website of my employing organization. If you’ll recall, I also contribute to a little something called Friendly Atheist. I thought it was a little past due for me to highlight my posts there from the past month or so. In recent weeks, I applauded the president for coming down firmly on the side of free expression and against blasphemy laws, but... Read more
Dana Milbank Belittles the Atheist Movement and Edwina Rogers Read more
One final debate note: I’m not a fan of “both sides do it” journalism, but to be fair, while there’s no equivalent of economic birtherism on the left, there is a kind of ”debate trutherism,” where fervent Obama supporters, especially on Twitter, explain that the president was once again playing 18th-dimensional chess and intentionally blowing the debate only to win it somewhere down the line, drawing out Romney’s lies with his somnolent performance. Um, no. Obama blew it, big time.... Read more
Is such a mode sustainable, over the long haul, and not just for one project, by people other than the handful of Special Cases like Doctorow and Coulton and Zoë Keating? That’s what we’re all waiting to find out. We need more data points to plot this graph, to see what shape the line makes — which means that we need more people to (a) make the jump into DCE [digital culture entrepreneur] mode and (b) report what happens. You... Read more
This is a sentiment you often hear from people: casual users only need «entry-level» performance. Even casual users themselves perpetuate it: «Oh, I’m not doing much on my computer, so I always just go with the cheapest option.» And then they buy a horrid, underpowered netbook, find out that it has a tiny screen, is incredibly slow, the keyboard sucks, and they either never actually use it, or eventually come to the conclusion that they just hate computers. In reality,... Read more
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