- I could spend years at the Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center and still not read everything I wanted to read. The Atlanta Journals and Atlanta Constitutions I read from the 1930s on microfilm were amazing, as were the collections of high school yearbooks from the 1920s and 1930s. You should check it out sometime. More on my research project later.
- I agree with Shelby and Thomas Friedman. The McCain-Clinton gas tax holiday is the basest sort of pandering. Some of you may not like Friedman, but that particular column he wrote was spot-on:
It is great to see that we finally have some national unity on energy policy. Unfortunately, the unifying idea is so ridiculous, so unworthy of the people aspiring to lead our nation, it takes your breath away. Hillary Clinton has decided to line up with John McCain in pushing to suspend the federal excise tax on gasoline, 18.4 cents a gallon, for this summer’s travel season. This is not an energy policy. This is money laundering: we borrow money from China and ship it to Saudi Arabia and take a little cut for ourselves as it goes through our gas tanks. What a way to build our country.
- Provocative commentary from former governor Roy Barnes:
“Out of a nation of 304 million, is this the best we have?”
That was how Roy Barnes, former governor and lifelong Democrat, replied when asked about the presidential contest featuring Republican John McCain and Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
“I’m not excited about any of them,” Barnes added.
Sounds like sour grapes that his boy Edwards never caught on. I hope we can all at least agree that the candidates on both sides are better this time out than they were four or eight years ago.
- File under “sweet baby Jesus we’re still having this discussion?” Enjoy this segment from Bob Costas’ show. Do a shot every time you hear the phrase “Wild West” or “anything goes” correlated to “the blogospehere.”
Prop yourself up on something, call ahead for a cab home, and try to suppress your giggles when Bob Costas opines about the “tone of gratuitous potshots and mean-spirited abuse in the blogosphere,” which is immediately followed by a torrent of gratuitous potshots and mean-spirited abuse from Buzz Bissinger, author of Friday Night Lights.
I wish people would quit pretending like asshattery is somehow limited to a particular medium.
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Wow, that Costas segment was ridiculous. I want to see a similar hit piece on radio sports commentary when it was new and disruptive to the entrenched print reporters… You could do a whole series of desperate, pandering, smarmy critiques of new advances in communications that would all sound identical in tone to these idiots. If I were a comedy writer, I would jump on it. I’d call it “Dying Dinosaurs Make the Most Pathetic Noises”.
Maybe Roy Barnes is who Vernon was talking about when he said that Democrats always support losers. Roy has a pretty good track record on that.
I’ve totally lost all respect for Bissinger. What a jackass.
Actually, I think both nominees are pretty good representatives of their respective parties at this time and place. I’m sure each of of could come up with the name of someone we like better, but I think Obama and MaCain pretty much sum it up. NOT PICKING WHO I LIKE — just looking at the numbers — I calculate McCain with 53% in November.