KIESEWETTER: Television
Last light Tina Fey was wearing odd shoes. Weekend update was ok, but the rest of the show lacked "balls." Chris Parnell is the new George Bush. His rendition was fair, but will hopefully get better. Reports were made that Darrel Hammond tried a skit as Bush on the season opener's dress rehearsal, which failed miserably and was cut. Instead Parnell turns up opening the next episode of SNL as Bush. I hope Chris Parnell can grow into the role the way Hammond did with his imitation of Bill Clinton after taking over for Phil Hartman. The show is really going to miss Will Ferrell, who left the show at the end of last season. Will was the Phil Hartman of their group. They are now missing someone who can carry a show with a bad guest host. John McCain, hosting next week, would be just such a host, but if SNL had courage they could do some great skits. McCain and Bush debating again, or McCain back in the Hanoi Hilton, or even McCain on the Senate floor with renditions of the more colorful Senators. I have the feeling next week’s show will suck as much as this weeks did. The roller coaster ride that is SNL will go on.
Sunday, October 13, 2002
Springboro Junior High cancels Washington trip
Yet another overreaction under pressure from the media and parents. The problem with the "Beltway" sniper is not in Washington; it is in the suburbs. Here is a side effect of the media coverage of this occurrence. The media has created a fear quotient in consciousness of the entire nation. Fear of what is perceived to be a problem to them takes over reality. Also, this is not a local story, but don't tell the local media who had to connect the story with the local angle - see the Enquirer or WKRC.
Yet another overreaction under pressure from the media and parents. The problem with the "Beltway" sniper is not in Washington; it is in the suburbs. Here is a side effect of the media coverage of this occurrence. The media has created a fear quotient in consciousness of the entire nation. Fear of what is perceived to be a problem to them takes over reality. Also, this is not a local story, but don't tell the local media who had to connect the story with the local angle - see the Enquirer or WKRC.
BRONSON: Antiwar dictionary
I can draw two major conclusions from this column.
1. Bronson was in favor of the Vietnam War, or has reversed his claimed former hippie opinions because of his religious and ideological conversion.
2. Bronson has never served in the military and surely never seen combat.
Bronson is a poster child for a chicken hawk. A chicken hawk is a person who is in strongly in favor of war, but has never served in the military or been in combat. I think Peter may be suffering from conservative guilt. That would be guilt for not having been a conservative all his life. His "youthful" transgressions into hippie-dom is what his chicken hawk behavior hopes to make up for.
I will agree that the extreme progressive populist anti-war views are nutty, but Bronson is lumping all anti-war people into a crowd of old hippies (who he hates more than "Satan" himself) and young faux-anarchists. Bronson’s bull in a china shop style of political discourse does nothing but create a wider "us vs. them" situation. Conservatives generally cannot function unless a situation is defined in good vs. evil terms. Like Bush, Bronson needs that shallow and simplistic distinction of Dubya’s geopolitical mantra: “you are either with us or with the terrorists.” That is the conservative PC version of saying you are either with us or against us, where being “with us” means you must agree to make Bush your unquestioned lord and master and submit to the will of the Christian “god”.
(For the record I have never served in the military nor seen combat. You will find very very few under 45 in this country who have seen combat.)
I can draw two major conclusions from this column.
1. Bronson was in favor of the Vietnam War, or has reversed his claimed former hippie opinions because of his religious and ideological conversion.
2. Bronson has never served in the military and surely never seen combat.
Bronson is a poster child for a chicken hawk. A chicken hawk is a person who is in strongly in favor of war, but has never served in the military or been in combat. I think Peter may be suffering from conservative guilt. That would be guilt for not having been a conservative all his life. His "youthful" transgressions into hippie-dom is what his chicken hawk behavior hopes to make up for.
I will agree that the extreme progressive populist anti-war views are nutty, but Bronson is lumping all anti-war people into a crowd of old hippies (who he hates more than "Satan" himself) and young faux-anarchists. Bronson’s bull in a china shop style of political discourse does nothing but create a wider "us vs. them" situation. Conservatives generally cannot function unless a situation is defined in good vs. evil terms. Like Bush, Bronson needs that shallow and simplistic distinction of Dubya’s geopolitical mantra: “you are either with us or with the terrorists.” That is the conservative PC version of saying you are either with us or against us, where being “with us” means you must agree to make Bush your unquestioned lord and master and submit to the will of the Christian “god”.
(For the record I have never served in the military nor seen combat. You will find very very few under 45 in this country who have seen combat.)
Saturday, October 12, 2002
Samizdata.net - Glossary
For all those who care about blogging, the above link is to a glossary of blogging terms. I have one term I would add that I think I may have coined:
Blog Fodder
noun. Information used as the basis for the posts to blogs. Generally includes links to news articles, websites or other blogs. Also can include the topics of link less blog posts, and responses to emails.
For all those who care about blogging, the above link is to a glossary of blogging terms. I have one term I would add that I think I may have coined:
Blog Fodder
noun. Information used as the basis for the posts to blogs. Generally includes links to news articles, websites or other blogs. Also can include the topics of link less blog posts, and responses to emails.
Huggins Back After Heart Attack
My sources tell me that Huggins should not be couching. His heart attack was serious one and most cardiologists would advise that he should not be back to work yet, and maybe never. I think the press is reporting this story wrong. I don't think he is really back to work yet. This AP story has been picked up in half of the newspapers across the country. This was only a PR event anyway. The local press will not report anything other than a positive story about his recovery. What they should be looking at is will going back to work full time cause another heart attack, one he would not survive. I predict that if Huggins is “coaching” again, he will serve as more of a figure head role until his heath impoves.
My sources tell me that Huggins should not be couching. His heart attack was serious one and most cardiologists would advise that he should not be back to work yet, and maybe never. I think the press is reporting this story wrong. I don't think he is really back to work yet. This AP story has been picked up in half of the newspapers across the country. This was only a PR event anyway. The local press will not report anything other than a positive story about his recovery. What they should be looking at is will going back to work full time cause another heart attack, one he would not survive. I predict that if Huggins is “coaching” again, he will serve as more of a figure head role until his heath impoves.
A very interesting take by Chris Anderson on Blogging. I think blogging is a long needed component to the large media landscape. Blogging provides the big media outlets a mirror to see what they are doing right and more often than not doing wrong. Blogging also provides news junkies like me yet another outlet. When the big media outlets are not reporting the story, a blogger is usually out there covering it. I wish I had my blog during last year's riots. I believe I could have provided a source of information that was greatly missing in the mainstream media. I hope I don't need to fulfill that role in the future locally, but the next big news event here will most likely get the same level of coverage as last year's riot.
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