The life and times of Sir Francis Sausage

2008-10-17T05:58:00.001-07:00

I sometimes have a hard time admitting fault when I'm wrong. So I think the right thing for me to do in this instance is to say that Lanny Davis was correct. (Although the article still feels a little opportunistic to me. After all, it was Lanny Davis' job to make the case for Hillary staying in the race. I think his analysis at the time was as adept as it was fortuitous.)

2008-10-16T15:26:00.000-07:00

I think this is pretty innovative. I wonder if, as a strategy to market ideas, it catches on in some mainstream way.

2008-10-16T06:52:00.001-07:00

2008-10-14T13:42:00.000-07:00

This could be big.

2008-10-14T01:46:00.000-07:00

Another crazy weekend for me. Sorry for not updating. As much as I don't like giving up most of my weekends to a long work schedule, it is nice to have the weekdays off to do homework n stuff. And I think I really like this job. I won't say exactly where I work because I'm sure I have many stalkers out there, but I will say that I'm working in the grocery business, which is nice and laid back for the most part. Most of my co-workers are old white men who wink compulsively. Even the old black man in the produce dept. is a winker. I'm learning a lot about the overnight stocker subculture and many new trends in groceries like the "digestive health" products which have taken over almost every aisle. Gone are the low fat products and the high protein and everything else. Now all the miracle yogurts and cereals and toothpastes seek to clean out your GI tract. Am I missing something or is America constipated?

This is awesome.

2008-10-08T05:56:00.001-07:00

2008-10-07T04:48:00.000-07:00

I started working at a new job this past weekend so I haven't had time to update, but what a weekend it was!

1) Sarah Palin is all actin' like her mediocre performance in Thursday's debate has given her a mandate to relentlessly attack Obama and avoid tough, substantive issues. I have no doubt that Bill Ayers will ultimately hurt Obama in the polls. However, the McCain campaign's timing is about a week or two early. This story doesn't have the kind of shelf life to fully realize its potential on election day 4 weeks from now when many undecided voters go behind the curtain and make, as recent history suggests, a shift toward the Republican candidate based on a variety of social issues. I think John McCain got scared by the polls and essentially sold his best stock low.

2) And the polls! Bad news all around for the McCain campaign. Barack Obama, I think, has to actively maintain this lead (contrary to his late primary performance). He's got late breakers working against him and, possibly, a lingering Bradley Effect (or other October surprise).

3) Debate preps for tonight! This debate is wedged between the first debate when the candidates generally introduce their pitch and the last debate when the candidates make their boring, often times safe final sales pitch. And tensions are high. Really high. So the candidates should have their most fiery performance of all three debates. I cautiously say 'should' because the vice presidential debate turned out to be the biggest disappointment in my life since the Backstreet Boys split up.

2008-10-02T12:50:00.000-07:00

For the kids.

The moose ate her homework

2008-10-01T19:15:00.000-07:00

It's here!

And another interesting moment from the Couric interview that will likely be overshadowed by the above video:

(From Ben Smith's blog)

"But legally-minded readers point out something that really is a truer gaffe.

COURIC (to Palin): Do you think there's an inherent right to privacy in the Constitution?
PALIN: I do. Yeah, I do.
COURIC: The cornerstone of Roe v Wade.
PALIN: I do. And I believe that --individual states can handle what the people within the different constituencies in the 50 states would like to see their will ushered in in an issue like that.

As Couric notes in the exchange, Palin appears actually to support Roe. Or, rather, to be a results-oriented conservative -- she's against abortion rights -- rather than having even the ability to pretend to base it on Constitutional law."

2008-09-30T21:57:00.000-07:00

Read this and watch the video.

(Caution: Time waster.)

2008-09-30T19:14:00.000-07:00

On September 13th, 2008, at the height of the Palin craze, Newsweek's Dahlia Lithwick postulated that John McCain should not "waste [the] talents" of Sarah Palin by nominating her as his running mate. Instead, Lithwick argues that she be nominated to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court. Sarah Palin. On the Supreme Court.

It is now rumored that in her final interview segment with Katie Couric, which airs tomorrow night before the debate, Sarah Palin was asked to name an important Supreme Court case other than Roe vs. Wade and she could not. Could not name a single important Supreme Court case. Justice Palin who can't name a single important Supreme Court case, Dahlia Lithwick?

I wonder how many Beanie Babies Mr. Lithwick owns. Or maybe he thinks the next Chief Justice should be a Furby.

Seriously, folks. That we give immediate credence to hunting moose and are weary of editing the Harvard Law Review might begin to explain the situation our country is in today.

2008-09-30T18:35:00.000-07:00

In 2008, Nate Silver is hot. This site is not.

Electoral-vote.com was great in 2004, but so was Keith Olbermann.

2008-09-29T17:43:00.000-07:00

I spent my weekend in wonderful Huntsville, AL for Big Spring Jam. I was generally discontented with the lineup but my weekend was not without great art--

After traveling up and down the great bug sanctuary we call Interstate 65, my windshield looks something like this:

(Oh yeah? But can your 5 year old drive a car in a bug storm?)

Today has been very long. A stop in Birmingham last night turned a 6 hour trip into a 9 hour trip, so I arrived home in Mobile at 2 AM. Today I began training at my new job from 8-11AM, slept until 1:30PM, wrote a 3 page essay in a record 30 minutes and barely made it to class at 2:30.

In the news:
My kindred spirit, Maureen Dowd, wrote the best piece about the first debate.

And why didn't I know about this?

2008-09-25T21:39:00.000-07:00

This sums up why I love Bill O'Reilly. Why he should not be vilified like Limbaugh. Duh, he's a little right of center-right, somewhat of a simpleton, easy to caricature, but he's incredibly entertaining and often sensible.

2008-09-25T18:38:00.000-07:00

It just keeps getting scarier and scarier.

You want an executive on your ticket? Fine. You want a woman? Fine. But seriously, if the best cross-section of these criterions in the GOP right now is the intellectual equivalent of Miss Teen South Carolina, you probably want to hold onto that card until a better possibility is done growing in your grand old culture.

Or am I missing the point? What if all these questions about the physical world are just soooo typical of liberal journalists? Perhaps Sarah Palin is ready for a different kind of threat. It would need to be something more mystical.

Say... Witches?

2008-09-25T09:44:00.000-07:00

Funnay funnay.

2008-09-25T04:22:00.000-07:00

This is something I don't understand.

Old men in suits. Watching younger, scantily clad mens wrestle. It reminds me of a club in New Orleans.

All I'm saying is that if the "ultimate fighters" created a social networking site where they posted their pictures and activities it might look a little something like this.

2008-09-24T23:15:00.000-07:00

What is most surprising about this election cycle?
A) Sarah Palin
B) David Gregory has a show?
C) Clay Aiken is gay
D) Maria Bartiromo looks good in Alaska

2008-09-24T22:21:00.000-07:00

I completely agree with Canoli. Twitter does suck. Ben Smith makes so many references to it that I had to check it out. And unless I'm missing something it seems to be little more than a site to post Facebook status updates... ?
If we're going to outsource a Facebook function, couldn't it have been those Lil Green Patch requests?

2008-09-24T22:01:00.000-07:00

Putting a gayfer as hot as Preston Lee on a Bravo TV show is clearly a marketing ploy.

And I have to confess that I'm falling for it. And him.

An introduction

2008-09-24T20:45:00.000-07:00

Greetins, blogosphere. Wiki tells me I'm number 112,000,001!

(I'm late for everything.)