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Next Fired Campaign Spokesman

This year, it seems that campaign spokespeople feel the need to say something stupid so they’ll have to get fired. Today was Gen. Wesley Clark’s turn. According to Politico.com, Clark said the following on Face the Nation:

“I don’t think getting in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to become president.”

Calling energy independence “the goal that failed,” Mr. Grove argues that transportation, which uses more than half of the petroleum consumed in the United States, is the crucial energy consumer to focus on. He believes that a significant impact could take place quickly by focusing on converting the more energy-inefficient vehicles among the 250 million vehicles on the roads in the United States to a dual-fuel capability.

— Andy Grove Offers an Energy Solution - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog

This “fulgurator” seems something straight out of a William Gibson novel. (via silverstarmedia)

Jun
24th

Tue

In the future, more and more spoken English will sound increasingly like Chinese.

— How English Is Evolving Into a Language We May Not Even Understand (Wired Magazine, July 2008)

$572 million: "Lifetime value" of Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" (via: Portfolio.com)

The once mighty Wall Street investment banks have been brought to their knees, sending out pink slips to more than 83,000 employees worldwide, racking up billions of dollars in losses as a results of their foolish forays into subprime mortgages.

— The Bonfire of the Vanities, the Sequel| DealBook

Jun
23rd

Mon

Ball Girl Makes Incredible Catch Video

Jun
22nd

Sun

The good news (and bad) for Titans fans in Nashville

Living in Nashville and cheering for the hometown Tennessee Titans, I’m happy not to have to be reading these days about the former Tennessee Titan formerly known as Pacman. I’m glad he’s in Dallas so I won’t have to be reading how he wants people to stop calling him Pacman. I also won’t have to read that he has defaulted on the mortgage for his home in Franklin, the one next door to country music star George Jones (no relation). Unfortunately, I’m now having to read about the former — and now again current — Tennessee Titan known as The Freak but who now may be known by a new nickname, the Raging Bull, after pounding back a few of these and being arrested by Vanderbilt University police while driving down West End Ave. at 4:45 a.m. Sunday morning.

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