Okay, this is a bad marketing slogan– the latest from Microsoft:
Windows — Life Without Walls
Think about it. Walls are actually important to windows– they keep the window in place. If you don’t have a wall in the first place, you have one of three things:
1. Windows aren’t needed; there’s nothing in the way.
2. Windows are so big and oversized that it becomes a wall in and of itself;
3. Windows falls to the ground hard and crashes.
Maybe they should bring back Seinfeld.
If you had 4:41 in the pool, you won!
Yes, 4:41 PM, not AM the next day.
As always: 110 Stories.
Oh, and we have this via John Cole: Osama Who?
The mother of all goalpost moves happened yesterday:
Q But Osama bin Laden is the one that — you keep talking about his lieutenants, and, yes, they are very important, but Osama bin Laden was the mastermind of 9/11 –
PERINO: No, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was the mastermind of 9/11, and he’s sitting in jail right now.
Really. I’ll have more to say about this later, because someone should avoid mean (but accurate) words on this day.
…which means it’s time to close some windows:
The USSR was better prepared for a collapse than the US is now, says a man who isn’t Jared Diamond.
She can borrow millions for a hockey rink for her town, but Sarah Palin wanted rape victims to pay for their own rape kits. A few thoughts: 1. How many rapes weren’t reported because they didn’t want to pay the money? 2. One can assume that the cost included a morning after pill, which one presumes Palin wanted no part of. 3. According to the police chief that was appointed by Palin, they would have had to allocate enough money expect 12 rapes a year… in a town of 6000 people. That means that they expect the odds of being sexually assaulted is 1 in 500. Which is about four times the national per capita average. But hey, we already know Wasilia is the meth capital of Alaska…
Scott McClellan to Barack Obama: Don’t investigate us. “If Obama were to win,” he said last week, “that would be an issue his administration would have to face early … because he’s pledging to be a uniter, not a divider — without saying those exact words we campaigned on in 2000. He’s pledging to change the way Washington works, and if Congress were to pursue that, it would be very divisive.” You know what unites a community? A crackdown on crime. If law and order crackdowns work in neighborhoods, why won’t it work on Wall Street or Pennsylvania Avenue?
Thought control in economics, or the perils of groupthink.
Armstrong WIllams asks: "Who says President Bush is irrelevant and only a burden to anyone who dares invoke his name?" And the answer is: Anyone who takes a quarter of a million dollars in payola to repeat his propaganda, Mr. Williams. So how much did he pay you this time around?
So this is what Ethan Lebovics has been up to…
Oh, and I’ve joined Facebook. All because some meanie started posting photos of someone that kinda looked like me about 20 years ago. Scaaaaaary stuff.
After watching her speech last night, I think she’s only a dye job and a pair of contact lenses away from becoming Ann Coulter.
And Rudy… if he only would have shut his yap, they would have had time to run her promotional video. But no. He had to pick on cosmopolitan people, like those who lived in the city he was mayor of. Let’s see how much it hurts the Republicans later– unless, of course, they decide to run it tonight, or edit it into McCain’s video so that they’re joined at the hip. A hip replacement, as it were.
McCain has burned the boats. There is no way for him now but forward.