tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56956552011-06-08T02:32:53.195-04:00Bourgeois Pig!I have a blog.Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.comBlogger7481100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1100153603533882252004-11-11T01:48:00.000-05:002004-11-11T01:15:36.020-05:00A Tip o' the Hat
"Say your goodbyes" was the phrase in my family, tought to the children with reminders, usually at my grandparents' modest ranch house, every long goodbye and final, eventual exit. When Christmas nights ended with Katie, Beth and I in pajamas, or when a Sunday dinner cut into my time at Johnny V's, always was there the instruction: make a polite exit.
I've held off saying Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00666886058966898391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1100015092133350662004-11-09T10:22:00.000-05:002004-11-10T11:02:34.880-05:00The Pig is dead; long live the Pig!
No sooner do we shut down the Bourgeois Pig! than an actual Bourgeois Pig cafe opens up just blocks from my apartment.
You can pretty much just find me there from now on. Just moving from one pig to another.
Also, I'm happy to announce that the Washington Square News has for the first time won the American Collegiate Press Association's Pacemaker award, theRyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1099982830770608002004-11-09T01:46:00.000-05:002004-11-09T01:47:10.770-05:00It began with me out of the country, and it looks like it will end that way too. Goodnight, sweet prince.Jeff Behrenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07849100817628055311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1099874625472552162004-11-07T19:43:00.000-05:002004-11-08T18:29:20.596-05:00I've never really fit in too well here. I am, of course, a gentleman of Wisconsin who has (albeit only by about 70 miles) spread out a bit from our collective hometown in search of scholarly pursuits and the fruits of being a young dude in America, but I've also kind of had a different idea about why I wanted to post/what I wanted to post about than most of these guys, I think.
Not, of course, The Drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02169283463077091689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1099680159689293232004-11-05T13:00:00.000-05:002004-11-06T23:18:45.750-05:00Embracing Each and Every One of You
Many of us left-leaning college types in the past few days have begun looking for our next president at the bottom of a bottle. Not me. True, I was let down, disappointed, embittered and exhausted by Bush's victory Wednesday morning. Indeed, I got an early start on dejection, having pretty much accepted defeat, like many around me, after midnight, when it was Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1099451285067676022004-11-02T22:02:00.000-05:002004-11-02T22:08:05.066-05:00Appy polly loggies
I made a mistake before. The Wisconsinvote site will not be giving national numbers for the presidential election, but will (I am currently) give up-to-date returns for all Wisconsin elections. So far Bush is up statewide by about 10 large -- with 4 percent precincts reporting, and our newsroom is guessing Madison hasn't gotten in yet. Bush, I got a feeling your whole family'sDanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00666886058966898391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1099437579031700032004-11-02T18:16:00.000-05:002004-11-02T18:19:39.033-05:00I'm blogging for the man tonight. New York city's going nuts right now, you can feel it crackling in the air. Look for some good stuff as the returns start coming in and I make my way out to the return-watch events.
Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1099374203883990142004-11-02T00:43:00.000-05:002004-11-02T00:43:23.883-05:00BlogolutionI'm a little mad they didn't ask us.Also, regarding my comment in Ryan's last post (I'd link to it, but it's immediately before this one), this New York Times article about voter turnout in general.The Drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02169283463077091689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1099371700212165092004-11-01T23:34:00.000-05:002004-11-02T00:01:40.213-05:00Brittons baffled by Badger State
From the Guardian.
Also, I've been getting some anecdotal meta-evidence of news reports of a surge in youth voting, especially in Florida. Anybody else back that up?Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1099336351366350142004-11-01T14:03:00.000-05:002004-11-01T14:12:31.366-05:00Wisconsin, or, A State Divided:
To put it simply, we are so divided.
Perhaps the words of a middle-age man having a cup of coffee at a shop in Cedarburg last summer could be our state motto now:
"I just don't understand the other camp."
The economic gap between the central city of Milwaukee and Milwaukee's suburbs has been documented as one of the largest in the United States. The gap between Jeff Behrenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07849100817628055311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1099284075631496272004-10-31T23:41:00.000-05:002004-11-01T21:09:33.093-05:00Masked Men Parading Down the Street on Horses....With Mace
Well, we celebrated it again here last night: Halloween in Madison. Sometimes, as a student here, I'm a little mystified about how this really got this huge. I mean, kids who come here from other schools on Halloween get all starry-eyed when they see crowds of drunken partiers. I mean, haven't these people ever been to Summerfest?
All The Drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02169283463077091689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1099148932482625622004-10-30T11:00:00.000-04:002004-10-30T11:08:52.483-04:00While you were drinking...
Kerry has opened up a 5-point lead in Wisconsin; 33 cyclists (very nearly including yours truly) were arrested at last night as Critical Mass broke from its police-sanctioned route and swarmed across the city; Ralph Nader has completely lost his mind.
Never thought I'd say it, but for an awesome time, check out Eminem's election anthem video.Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1099037697657698232004-10-29T04:10:00.000-04:002004-10-29T04:19:23.376-04:00
A friendly Bourgeois Pig! reminder to vote on November 2nd
The Drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02169283463077091689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1098944378185657962004-10-28T02:03:00.000-04:002004-10-28T02:27:55.066-04:00Poll Position
The latest Zogby poll has Kerry up by 2 in Wisconsin, but obviously that's statistically insignificant - state's still tied.
But here's some food for thought. According to a recent University of Maryland poll reported in the Washington Post this week, you're more likely to vote for Bush if you, uh, don't live in the "reality-based community."
Among the survey's findings, 72 percentRyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1098942798643985192004-10-28T01:34:00.000-04:002004-10-28T01:59:45.070-04:00Tonight on Feature
Join me and Katie tonight as "Feature" examines the challenges of making the art and history of the Iraq war.
Guests include TIME war correspondent Ed Barnes, just back from Baghdad, Paul Wirhun of The Skull Project and the filmmakers behind the documentary "Voices of Iraq."
Barnes
Wirhun
"Feature," Thursday nights at 7:30 Eastern (6:30 central) only on WNYU 89.1 FM Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1098742878864975422004-10-25T18:13:00.000-04:002004-10-25T18:39:36.513-04:00The Battle of Lambert Field / Revenge of the Nerd
I've had this feeling in my gut for a while now, and new analysis from Slate.com only confirms my suspicions: This presidential race may very well be decided by Wisconsin (how appropriate, considering that this blog has turned around the travails of the election for months now, that we should talk about this over the next week).
What an Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1098641230419420832004-10-24T14:05:00.000-04:002004-10-24T14:07:10.420-04:00Wolfpacks for Truth.Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1098565130447220912004-10-23T16:56:00.000-04:002004-10-23T16:58:50.446-04:00Alright, alright, I like Jon Stewart as much as the next guy, but does he really deserve an A01 story in the Post?
Really?
Jeff Behrenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07849100817628055311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1098463445815672702004-10-22T13:37:00.000-04:002004-10-22T12:44:05.816-04:00TNR, Homestar Style
Here's my summary of this fascinating New Republic piece, titled "to the limit," on the failure of congress to raise the debt limit, and our needing to in the first place:
The thing about the deficit? I don't know what it is, but it certainly is fhgwgads. Come on, fhgwgads, I said come on, fhgwgads. The House is to the limit. George Bush is to the limit - everyone come on Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1098409483486462602004-10-21T21:36:00.000-04:002004-10-21T21:46:24.376-04:00Number Three
According to the link provided through our stats counter, your Bourgeois Pig! is officially the number three search result on MSN Search for "facts of life/fake nudes." Somehow that's fitting, right?
Also, The New Republic has made the most hard-hitting endorsement of John Kerry I've yet read.
The result [of Bush's record] is a country bitterly divided, distrustful of its Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1098368063401308602004-10-21T10:01:00.000-04:002004-10-21T10:14:23.400-04:00I'd just like to praise ... me
Landed another one in the Post over the Ben Ladner/benladner squabble.
For the lazy, the highlight reel:
An Internet arbitration group issued an opinion last week that the Web
site, http://www.benladner.com/, is being used for "bona fide, noncommercial criticism" of the university administration under Ladner andt hat the use of the domain name is protected by the Jeff Behrenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07849100817628055311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1098366124139293132004-10-21T09:37:00.000-04:002004-10-21T09:42:04.146-04:00Media Advisory
With 12 days left to go before election day, will someone please tell CNN to stop trying to make us call them "showdown states?"Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1098243653788534372004-10-19T23:28:00.000-04:002004-10-19T23:40:53.790-04:00If anyone out there was unclear about how Karl Rove does not fuck around when it comes to winning elections, here you go. I tend to not want to think too much about Rove, because he scares the poop out of me and gets me thinking pretty negatively about Kerry's chances in November. Take this bone chiller:
Republicans would not discuss the issue on the record because they said they hope Bush will Jeff Behrenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07849100817628055311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1098108423218770472004-10-18T09:55:00.000-04:002004-10-18T10:07:03.216-04:00Pittsburgh
After 20 hours of driving, my umpteenth bowl of Panera soup with kids in a far flung northeastern state sitting across the table from some New York college kid asking him "so, what brings you out here?" and schlepping around door to door, here's my latest canvassing story.
Also, right after the last Presidential debate the lesson I felt I'd learned is that, boy oh boy, the Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1097823449155222702004-10-15T02:53:00.000-04:002004-10-15T02:57:29.156-04:00Big congratulations to Jeff and the Benladner.com staff on their win for justice and freedom.
Also, Thomas Friedman is dead right in his last column.
So is William Saletan, right on the money - best summation of Bush during the debate:
"All night long he looked like a pitcher who knew his stuff wasn't working and was stuck out there, alone on the mound in front of millions of people, with no Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1097517877936156512004-10-11T13:48:00.000-04:002004-10-11T14:04:37.936-04:00You never know what you're gonna find on those Internets
The "well, duh" factor of this headline (U.S. executives yet to feel effects of global competition: As average workers' standard of living falls, CEOs' continues to rise) goes to show you just how insulated Milwaukee and Milwaukeeans (think they) are from whats going on with people in those other cities.
The Journal-Sentinel sure does Jeff Behrenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07849100817628055311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1097257520467092412004-10-08T13:03:00.000-04:002004-10-08T16:41:56.946-04:00Today's papers
Keeping in mind tonight's Presidential "debate," NYU president John Sexton writes an incredibly insightful and valuable commentary in today's LA Times (wrong coast, John) reminding us that these showdowns aren't debates in any sense of the word, they're "serial news conferences."
The key grafs:
We have lost the ability in our public discourse to speak to one another in a way Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1097176352659374962004-10-07T15:00:00.000-04:002004-10-07T15:17:14.543-04:00Tonight on Feature!
Tonight on Feature, Andy Bickelbaum (right), of the anti-corporate prankster duo "The Yes Men" comes on in to our studio to have a little chat about globalization, wage slavery, his critically acclaimed new film, and that gold lame bodysuit.
It's tonight at 7:30pm (6:30 central), here in the city on 89.1 FM and bestriding the globe at wnyu.org.
Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1097161258265929532004-10-07T10:57:00.000-04:002004-10-07T11:04:02.483-04:00All your fuel are belong to U.S.
Our SUV habit is hurting the economy, driving the world closer to the brink of recession.
The Future Is Now.Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1096986360270031072004-10-05T10:13:00.000-04:002004-10-05T10:33:54.040-04:00The cultural crisis behind the debates
A while back I blogged a gloomy post about how the failure of Kerry's campaign in a way signalled an inestimable defeat for "book culture," however we wish to define it -- and in the venn diagram of my mind we're speaking chiefly here of cosmopolitanism itself.
And then here in the closing graf of an article by TNR's Lee Siegel on the WB's "Jack and Bobby"Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1096920474223259782004-10-04T16:06:00.000-04:002004-10-04T16:08:16.640-04:00Number 3
Last Thursday night, Jon Stewart made particular fun of Bush's list of supporters, with Poland following Great Britain. Well, looks like Poland didn't even want to be on that list, after all. That's comedy for you.
The Drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02169283463077091689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1096765650947536032004-10-02T20:48:00.000-04:002004-10-02T21:10:05.106-04:00From the rooftops...
In speaking with various flip-flopping liberals over the last few days since Thursday's debate, I've sensed a kind of euphoria, as though we'd just liberated Paris and a great weight had been lifted. I suppose it's an apt comparison, if we're to continue spinning Kerry as an effete Frenchman.
There's no question at all that Kerry won Thursday's debate -- the post-debate Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1096667445089973052004-10-01T17:13:00.000-04:002004-10-01T17:56:42.196-04:00Lingerie Liberals
This isn't the thrust of today's (this week's?) post, but I wanted to talk about Kerry and, more specifically, how I guess he's gay now.
Not surprising. Karl Rove has run this campaign before, and this time it's the next tree to fall in the logging of Kerry's public masculinity. Even better than dealing with just your average, run of the mill pedophile homosexual, Rove etc. Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00666886058966898391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1096608538832149022004-10-01T01:28:00.000-04:002004-10-01T01:28:58.833-04:00Election 2004
I think John Kerry can say one thing after tonight's debate: "Mission Accomplished."Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1096548390113540052004-09-30T08:36:00.000-04:002004-09-30T08:46:30.113-04:00More Bikes, [Fewer] Cars
Tonight on Feature: Katie and I ride Critical Mass with an MD recorder, evade arrest. Also, interviews with legendary Bike-umentary filmmaker Ted White, whose film "Return of the Scorcher" gave Critical Mass its name, and publisher of The Ride Magazine/OLN commentator Richard Fries.
If it's Thursday, it's Feature, 7:30pm (eastern) on WNYU 89.1FM and worldwide on Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1096226848518814822004-09-26T15:26:00.000-04:002004-09-26T15:27:28.520-04:00Wonkette is Hot
Here's a pretty in depth piece about political blogging, courtesy of our friend the New York Times.
The Drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02169283463077091689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1096213117316391732004-09-26T11:24:00.000-04:002004-09-26T11:38:37.316-04:00Bird of Prey Veterans for Truth
Kerry 75%, Satan 25%, Bush 0%
Latest polling data shows Klingon warriors [news, website] overwhelmingly plan to vote for Senator John Kerry, preferring his stance on terror. Two respondents said they planned to write in Satan, according to Portland's Wilmette Weekly.
Bush responded to news of the poll while campaigning in Des Moines.
"People don't talk like Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1096132978696103432004-09-25T13:22:00.000-04:002004-09-25T13:22:58.696-04:00Jeff Behrenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07849100817628055311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1096045427594200842004-09-24T13:45:00.000-04:002004-09-24T13:03:47.593-04:00In defense of reportage
The great success of Jon Stewart is how deftly he's turned The Daily Show from Onion TV towards an ongoing critique of the modern American news-media. There's a finesse in there, a thin line between fake news for comedy's sake (A-Team Finally Pardoned by US Government for Crime they Did Not Commit) and segments like the interview he conducted with Wolf Blitzer, where he Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1096037561929887842004-09-24T10:47:00.000-04:002004-09-24T13:05:50.756-04:00The Unbearable Lightness of Keeping it Real
I want to point people in the direction of my good friend Dave Hugh's excellent and evolving music column, appearing every Friday in the Washington Square News. This week, Dave tackles "The Honky Problem."
Also, the latest poll shows Bush up by 14 points over Kerry in Wisconsin. What the hell is going on out there? The state hasn't voted for a Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1095886282625466632004-09-22T16:38:00.000-04:002004-09-22T16:58:20.593-04:00Hey, it could happen.
This is weird.
"Small business owner" puts a good spin on "owns a handful of McDonai", or, "I always almost hit either their bright yellow jeep or their purple and yellow Corvette on the hill by Drew's house."
Now, Kitty Kelley I'm not. I don't know the number of McDonai in question (6?), or the exact paint job (or make) of their sportscar (Corvettesque). And in point of Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00666886058966898391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1095874258613653282004-09-22T13:01:00.000-04:002004-09-22T13:30:58.613-04:00On the Media
My writeup on John Kerry's speech here at NYU the other day, courtesy U-Wire.
It was better than his acceptance speech at the convention, I thought. Josh Marshall points out that instead of offering a critique of Kerry's assessment of the situation in Iraq and his plan to improve it, the Bush administration mostly just pokes fun at Kerry for changing his position from time to time.Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1095438350250143702004-09-17T11:45:00.000-04:002004-09-17T12:27:26.546-04:00Freedom from Literacy
Two bits from The New Republic's Ryan Lizza today might give us a little hint into why John Kerry is floundering in the polls.
First there's this piece from the upcoming issue of the magazine, which expounds upon "Bush's fetish with speaking clearly and plainly." The gist of the article is basically that Candidate Bush connects to people by appealing to their dislike of Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1095354853590761862004-09-16T13:11:00.000-04:002004-09-16T13:14:13.590-04:00The Unkindest Comma of All
Headline from USA Today this week:
"Study: U.S. teens have big hopes, average skills"
Zing!Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1095350185240716952004-09-16T11:55:00.000-04:002004-09-16T11:56:25.240-04:00Kapocius cashes in on college coercion campaign.
Jeff Behrenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07849100817628055311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1095215345484034632004-09-14T21:21:00.000-04:002004-09-14T23:30:33.663-04:00I'm at work, so I don't have a lot of time to post -- a grand re-entrance -- but I'll put up three quick links.
1. Updated Wisconsin primary results, as fast as we get them from AP.
2. Gabe's kid (Gabe).
3. Two &c. pieces: "What is Dick Cheney talking about?" and "The President tells a bald-faced lie." The administration ups its ante, domestically and internationally, per its strategy of playingDanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00666886058966898391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1095086180064549522004-09-13T10:33:00.000-04:002004-09-13T10:36:20.063-04:00Oh, I forgot to tell you jokers that the Washington Post did a full page article on the Web site I co-edit on AU campus. Somewhere around paragraph 354 you can see some paraphrased quotes from me, heh. But its good exposure for us, and its good exposure for student journalism. I encourage any of you who work for your college papers out there to think about picking up the story.
AU President Jeff Behrenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07849100817628055311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1095085917350487122004-09-13T10:07:00.000-04:002004-09-13T10:31:57.350-04:00In the comments board the other day, I noted how pissed off Ryan is at Republicans, which he countered with an article at how pissed off Garrison Keillor is at Republicans.
LCV is really pissed off at Republicans, too, and for the first time they named the President and Vice President on the yearly "Dirty Dozen."
The only person keeping an even keel in at this stage, I think, is John Kerry. Jeff Behrenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07849100817628055311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1095058924449609482004-09-13T03:02:00.000-04:002004-09-13T03:02:04.450-04:00It's the Walk Outside That'll Kill Ya'I was thinking about my various vices today, and especially about my most blatant: smoking. And I realized that a large part of smoking is not really in the nicotine. Sure, nicotine's addictive and sure, I'm addicted to it. But more than that, I'm addicted to the way I've integrated smoking into my life.I've never really been one for routines, is the thingThe Drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02169283463077091689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1095049653035951162004-09-13T01:20:00.000-04:002004-09-13T00:27:33.036-04:00Misunderestimated
"We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud." - President Bush's state of the Union address, January 2003.
"The United States and Britain were last night trying to discover the cause of a huge mushroom cloud spotted over North Korea." - The Guardian, Sept. 2004.
Whoops, guess we disarmed the wrong country. Shucks.
Maybe "disarmed" is the wrong word.Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1094849564354372332004-09-10T16:03:00.000-04:002004-09-10T16:52:44.356-04:00RNC:NYC - A Tale of Two Cities
The story of New York during the Republican National Convention was a tale of two cities. The first was the heavily fortified encampment at Madison Square Garden, and it was characterized by extremely precise scripting, a bunker mentality, and one message: Re-elect Bush. The second city drifted between St. Mark's Church and Union Square Park, and some nights Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1094668428889625892004-09-08T14:29:00.000-04:002004-09-08T14:34:06.136-04:00The Genesis Divice
You've got Genesis, but you don't have me. You were going to kill me, Kahn! You're going to have to come down here. You're going to have to come down here!Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1094564148971763052004-09-07T09:32:00.000-04:002004-09-07T09:35:48.970-04:00Supergeek
When it comes to mechanically engineered human geniuses, Wired tells it like it is.
"If the world were full of da Vincis, we'd all be quarrelsome, gay, left-handed Italians who couldn't finish a painting."Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1094505762237356942004-09-06T17:17:00.000-04:002004-09-06T17:22:42.236-04:00Pushback
Garrison Keillor is really, really, really pissed off at the GOP:
The party of Lincoln and Liberty was transmogrified into the party of hairy-backed swamp developers and corporate shills, faith-based economists, fundamentalist bullies with Bibles, Christians of convenience, freelance racists, misanthropic frat boys, shrieking midgets of AM radio, tax cheats, nihilists in golf pants, Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1094397477092129412004-09-05T11:16:00.000-04:002004-09-05T11:17:57.093-04:00Vintage Online Game Redux
Speaking of games of yesteryear, and since we were talking Bejeweled scores a few months ago, I figured you all might be interested in the Double Trouble knockoff. Jeff Behrenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07849100817628055311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1094321118583592142004-09-04T13:57:00.000-04:002004-09-04T14:05:18.583-04:00All Unbeknownst
I was surprised to find out that a new Director's Cut of THX-1138 is coming to theaters on the 10th of this month.
Watching the trailers for it online, I remembered what beautiful films George Lucas can make when he puts his mind to it. I know you can't really judge from trailers, but it just looks like a masterful reworking of his best film. It gives me some hope for Episode Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1094315849234676362004-09-04T13:37:00.000-04:002004-09-04T12:37:29.233-04:00The horror!Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1094259635838176462004-09-03T20:55:00.000-04:002004-09-03T21:00:35.840-04:00UPDATED Best Campaign Reaction
Via James Wolcott, the most Upper West Side blog in the universe.
The when it was over the family trooped out. More fascinating repressed psychodrama it would be harder to imagine. The Bush twins came out and embraced their dad, but it was an affectionless embrace, like those brief pats the American girl gymnasts gave each other after one of them after a routineRyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1094224600915062402004-09-03T11:15:00.000-04:002004-09-03T11:16:51.806-04:00Speaking of fact checking, check out FactCheck.org. Some pretty interesting stuff, and it saves time in having to cut through all the rhetoric on your own. Seems to lean a little to the left, but hey, nothing wrong with that these days.
Jeff Behrenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07849100817628055311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1094216064983924082004-09-03T08:51:00.000-04:002004-09-03T08:54:24.983-04:00Best convention reaction:
Slate notes that the aesthetically eerie 9/11 tribute film introducing President Bush last night was narrated by the same guy who narrated The Big Lebowski, and adds, with parenthetical disgust: "Like The Dude's rug in Lebowski, 9/11 really tied Bush's presidency together."
Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1094180868651995702004-09-02T23:01:00.000-04:002004-09-02T23:08:57.156-04:00Fact Check
"By ... expanding Pell grants for low and middle income families, we will help more Americans start their career with a college diploma." George W. Bush, Madison Square Garden, Sept. 2 2004.
Maximum Pell Grant Award:
1996 $2,470
1997 $2,700
1998 $3,000
1999 $3,125
2000 $3,300
2001 $3,750
2002 $4,000
2003 $4,000
2004 $4,000
2005 $4,000 (proposed)
Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1094160715263389492004-09-02T17:29:00.000-04:002004-09-02T17:31:55.263-04:00You know, I take back what i said about Republicans not being hip. They're the coolest cats on the block this week:
The problem, I think, is genetic.
(alright, alright, low blow on the last link there. but come on, there's nothing funnier than funny looking babies)
Jeff Behrenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07849100817628055311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1094146928824081212004-09-02T13:41:00.000-04:002004-09-02T13:42:08.826-04:00I've been waiting for this to happen for a while now. Sucks that it costs $30. Also sucks that my first post in a very long time is about The Onion, but eh, them's the breaks.
The Drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02169283463077091689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1094132258285305302004-09-02T09:29:00.000-04:002004-09-02T09:42:58.310-04:00Rowdy Randy Reporter
A special shout-out this morning to Texas A&M's newspaper, The Battalion, which picked up this story I co-wrote off the U-wire, and in the process Texa-fied my name, thus creating my awesome, indespensible Southern Alter Ego, "Randy Hagan."
Expect Randy to pop up on the blog from time to time, or maybe publish books or magazine articles. And at his side will be his trusty Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1094048996254242692004-09-01T10:20:00.000-04:002004-09-01T10:42:45.623-04:00We're All Republicans Now
I found out last night that I'm a Republican! Any liberal tendencies -- Terminated.
"If you believe that government should be accountable to the people, not the people to the government, then you are a Republican! If you believe a person should be treated as an individual, not as a member of an interest group, then you are a Republican! If you believe your family knowsRyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1093993532505563332004-08-31T19:02:00.000-04:002004-09-01T09:39:36.130-04:00Back to the lab
Working nights at the computer lab again, I get to play my favorite game: lab nemeses. So far, I've got "Never Got Over High School Girl," who asks the most obnoxious questions, is rude, constantly has her face twisted up in a sneer, and is impatient with the print server. You can just tell, hence the name, that she was made fun of a little too much in youth.
And then theres "Jeff Behrenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07849100817628055311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1093886517530194712004-08-30T12:58:00.000-04:002004-08-30T13:21:57.530-04:00I'm sorry, did I hear you correctly, Mayor Bloomberg? Did you say something about the 2012 Olympics? Dial it back a minute.
Pretty soon, we'll be getting Ryan's reports from the Republican Convention, which will probably look a little like a review of Deep Impact, in which, if I recall correctly, a tidal wave destroys the City of New York. This time it's the Republicans. And those pesky Jeff Behrenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07849100817628055311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1093842326304468872004-08-30T00:54:00.000-04:002004-08-30T08:55:28.943-04:00We are the very model of a modern student newspaper: your number eight or nine or so source for news
Stay tuned to your Washington Square News for our plucky and adventury coverage of the Republican National Convention. We've got reporters in the protests, we've got reporters in the convention, we've got reporters in the after-parties and reporters talking to both parties. We're uniters, not Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1093726686170530022004-08-28T16:23:00.000-04:002004-08-28T16:58:24.703-04:00Meta
This is where I blog about the media covering our blog, which blogs about the media, and other things.
The four of us heard tell that we'd been picked up in the September issue of Milwaukee Magazine as one of five "brewtown blogs." Now, it took us a while to track down the text of our mention, because it wasn't posted on the internet and, ironically, none of us are actually in Milwaukee toRyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1093703836344550132004-08-28T10:17:00.000-04:002004-08-28T13:00:19.946-04:00Time's up!
Here's a quick roundup of news stories on last night's Critical Mass dustup with the NYPD. I rode, as I do the last Friday of every month. It's generally a fun-loving, freewheeling night out, with the usual smattering of signs reading things like: "bicycling is a quiet statement against oil wars." But politics isn't usually the focus of the ride. It's about cycling and changing the Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1093616698430240622004-08-27T10:21:00.000-04:002004-08-27T10:27:10.436-04:00Dog Days
Where did this compact, efficient and deliciously venemous review of "Door in the Floor" come from? It's so dead on, but so tucked in there at the end of the article, many man weeks after most reviewers put it to bed. (p.s. I still liked the film quite a bit, kind of for the reasons this guy condems it. You know, love/hate relationship with John Irving's work):
"[The Door in the Floor]Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1093449554179642232004-08-25T11:57:00.000-04:002004-08-25T12:01:10.980-04:00A crime they didn't commit
With due respect to Mikey, nobody's tougher on terror (and the causes of terror, namely, "fools" and "bad guys") than the A-Team.Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1093449006296682262004-08-25T11:35:00.000-04:002004-08-25T11:50:17.823-04:00Lunchtime truths
1. Microsoft Excel is the most underrated application in the Office Suite.
2. The counter says 69 days until election day.
3. Four faxes, four busy signals
4. Many newspapers in Connecticut are published by one company, which is based in Wisconsin.
Jeff Behrenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07849100817628055311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1093378990639584252004-08-24T16:21:00.000-04:002004-08-24T16:23:10.640-04:00THE VOICE IS A TOOL OF THE FASCIST POLICE STATE TRYING TO SUPRESS YOUR FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS! ANARCHY 4EVA!Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1093369926083366062004-08-24T13:36:00.000-04:002004-08-24T13:53:18.513-04:00The irony of campaign finance reform legislation, while perhaps lost on everyone else, comes through pretty clear in Anthony Corrado's "Party Fundraising Success Continues Through Midyear"
"After eighteen months of experience under the new rules, the national parties are still outpacing their fundraising efforts of four years ago. As of June 30, the national parties have raised $611.1 million inJeff Behrenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07849100817628055311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1093292247795687382004-08-23T16:00:00.000-04:002004-08-23T17:13:34.530-04:00Baby, Bathwater
One last note on the Swift Boat ad controversy. The Bush Campaign continues to wiggle out from under the point of the discussion by turning it into a discussion about 527 groups in general. Neither the Kerry camp nor any intrepid reporter has taken a swing at this yet, but I'd like to see it exposed for the sham it is.
The Swift Boat ad isn't like the MoveOn or ACT ads, or the Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1093033200932337252004-08-20T15:25:00.000-04:002004-08-20T16:20:00.933-04:00College Bloggers for Truth
There was too much easy satisfaction in the blue blogosphere over the Washington Post article this week that went after the credibility of the Swift Boat Veterans ads attacking John Kerry. I ran across a few anxiously hyperlinked verbs like "demolishes" and "discredits." Frankly, I wasn't impressed. Of course the Swift Vets Ad is a smear at best -- outright libel at Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1092849001860036982004-08-18T12:58:00.000-04:002004-08-18T13:10:01.866-04:00This Week, on "Feature"
This week on "Feature," former Colorado Senator Gary Hart drops by the WNYU studios for a friendly and enlightening chat about his new book "The Fourth Power."
I know I say this almost every time, but this is one of the coolest shows we've ever done, and I hope everyone can tune in, Thursday night at 7:30 (eastern) on 89.1FM WNYU here in New York City, and streaming Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1092832126174959272004-08-18T08:18:00.000-04:002004-08-18T08:28:46.173-04:00Fight Anarchy With Discount Shopping
Here's why I love Mayor Bloomberg. He's usually pretty quiet, and does his thing mostly without offense. But every now and then he'll come up with a policy so zany and transparently from outer space, that you stop and think to yourself "huh, yeah, I guess... maybe that WOULD work."
Enter the "Peaceful Activist Discount" the City's rolling out to pacify Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1092701664780246322004-08-16T20:08:00.000-04:002004-08-16T20:14:24.780-04:00Keg Stands Revisited
Continuing our meta coverage of college life -- this story from CNN on Princeton's "top party school" survey (It's SUNY Albany; you can apply here) contains the two best back to back quotes of any story I've read in months.
"If this were a term paper, it would get an 'F' in methodology," [Albany] university spokeswoman Lisa James-Goldsberry said in a statement [respondingRyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1092328478508934592004-08-12T11:32:00.000-04:002004-08-12T12:34:38.510-04:00No Grrrls allowed
I think a look at this story, about the Philadelphia Daily News' newest columnist, "Riot Grrrl," and you'll never claim that blogging and "indie media" haven't made their mark on journalism.
You'll also never claim that punk rock isn't at least a little bit dead, but thats not really a discussion for our blog.
My concern in this case is not that "independent media is ruining Jeff Behrenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07849100817628055311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1092243807244606052004-08-11T12:28:00.000-04:002004-08-11T13:03:27.243-04:00Kill the poor '04
Sometimes we at the Pig get a little too caught up in self criticism, I think, and we forget to direct our elietism and vanity outward, that is, toward conservatives. How many posts on this blog (I can think of about a half dozen that I've made and several of Ryan's, too), chide "liberals" or "anarchists" or "communists" or other left-leaners for their beliefs and methods?
ButJeff Behrenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07849100817628055311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1092198253490572452004-08-11T00:22:00.000-04:002004-08-11T00:24:13.490-04:00JUSTICE AT LONG LAST
(the Onion comes to our aid with some long awaited National healing)
And because we're talking Onion here...
National Intellingence Director infographic.
Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1092148103295347722004-08-10T10:22:00.000-04:002004-08-11T20:19:06.100-04:00No Girls Allowed
Slate -- maybe with a slight case of circulation envy -- gleefully, sumptuously takes on Maxim.
"With the dwindling down of traditional masculinity, "manhood," once literally synonymous with virtue (vir, Latin, "man"), is now just a euphemism for "schlong." With their giant bronze Geronimos, their Elizabethan castles, their Xboxes, their SAT words and sentimental poetry and, Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1092070967745429422004-08-09T12:21:00.000-04:002004-08-09T13:02:47.746-04:00Lost in Translation
The chief accomplishment of Jonathan Demme's Manchurian Candidate remake is managing somehow to update an old classic with such a miserable tin ear as to make it actually less relevant to modern times than the original.
Watching this remake is something like sitting down with a bunch of drunk friends at a bar as they try to explain the plot of the 1962 classic Manchurian Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1092063651128749032004-08-09T10:44:00.000-04:002004-08-09T11:00:51.126-04:00Somewhere in the fine print of the Bourgeois Pig! statement of purpose it says that, when we're not talking about those other things--college, politics, Cuba, journalism, the circus, positron gliders, premature aging, and so on--we're supposed to give everyman advice on everyman things, like impressin' members of the opposite sex.
Today's tip comes from Koko the Gorilla, who reminds us always toJeff Behrenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07849100817628055311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1091899677446035982004-08-07T13:11:00.000-04:002004-08-07T13:29:25.023-04:00Milwaukee Kitsch, Pt CVXII
Last night, during what must have been my dozenth late night, beery conversation on the puzzling omnipresence of Pabst Blue Ribbon, I was finally referred to this 2003 New York Times Magazine expose on the phenomenon.
It's fascinating reading; it gave me the kind of feeling I imagine people from outside the Milwaukee area get when they discover that The Onion BEGAN Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1091889551055609702004-08-07T10:26:00.000-04:002004-08-07T10:40:19.400-04:00First, Wilson Quarterly and the New York Times reach directly into the mushy intellectual center of the Pig!.
The angels and devils that perch on the shoulders of Americans are the accumulation of wealth -- and feeling guilty about it, according to WQ (the less sexy version of GQ).
And the New York Times comes forward with a grand, eloquent defense of reading (p.s. Blogs are antithetical to Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1091730162586530682004-08-05T14:21:00.000-04:002004-08-05T14:28:20.256-04:00Video of the new Batmobile, shooting some scenes for Batman Begins. What a very strange looking Batmobile. Given, Bruce Wayne's first car as Batman isn't just going to drive off the feature stage at the Milwaukee Auto Show, but it's a pretty weird design. Sorta cool that Batman is a little more of a renegade, judging by the tank he's going to drive.
Might have some trouble loading.
Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00666886058966898391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-109172298680604492004-08-05T12:12:00.000-04:002004-08-05T12:23:06.806-04:00VOLTRON
I usually talk about, say, five things on this blog -- journalism, politics, literature, college and Cuba. So when something comes to my attention that combines two or more of them, I get really excited and do a little dance here on the keyboard.
This week, Slate's carrying a weeklong diary of journalist Eric Umansky's reporting trip to Cuba. It's fast reading, and there's some nice Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1091646439486564072004-08-04T14:51:00.000-04:002004-08-04T15:07:19.486-04:00The Fourth Power
"Strategy in an age of revolution," the first chapter of Gary Hart's new book "The Fourth Power," is available on the New York Times website.
Hart is without a doubt one of the most eloquent writers on American republicanism and democracy (conspicuous lower cases here) alive today, and he offers some great nuggets here in this first chapter. Ultimately, he talks about the Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1091548000548628342004-08-03T11:41:00.000-04:002004-08-03T12:30:51.966-04:00Bravo
Josh Marshall had this last night, but that's no reason not to link it here too. I was wondering if he'd bring this impression back. Hilarious.
Also, it's got to be nice to be in New York sometimes for reviews. It'd be great to have a play or a concert you see one night get reviewed the next day by the Times. I sorta don't like someone telling me what was interesting about my night, but Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00666886058966898391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1091493167131820272004-08-02T20:26:00.000-04:002004-08-02T20:32:47.133-04:00Karl Rove-mero
Clearly, Karl Rove had the DoD release this information on its development of PHASERS AND PLASMA RIFLES today in order to blunt the impact the release of Doom3 tomorrow will have on the Nerd Vote.
Also, speaking of the nerd vote, I got wind of this awesome resource today.
Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1091466035148296012004-08-02T12:29:00.000-04:002004-08-02T13:00:35.146-04:00In the News
I don't think the national media has really gotten wind, yet, of how massive the protests outside the RNC are going to be this year -- partly becuase the left is energized, blah blah blah, but mostly because the protests are being absorbed by and in turn are lending a unified focus to the sprawling, unstoppable New York party scene. But this isn't going to be Chicago '68, it's mostlyRyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1091371263680663392004-08-01T10:39:00.000-04:002004-08-01T11:23:41.373-04:00Science turns a corner, uncovers nuts, bolts of Bush's exploitation of Sept. 11.
All sniping aside, I'm usually really impressed by the Bush/Cheney campaign's message control and strategy. But I've got to say this "turning the corner" theme Bush has kicked off with is about the lamest slogan since "let America be America again."
It's always weird to see the Bush camp on the defensive, becauseRyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1091255643146910942004-07-31T01:40:00.000-04:002004-07-31T02:42:13.950-04:00Because Good is Dumb
I'll bet, though since I've been mostly out of touch with the news cycle from Sunday to this very evening when I returned from Boston, that the "corporate media whores" more or less ignored the DNC protests in their coverage of the convention.
It's not for lack of trying. This Slate article does a pretty good job of describing the anti-climactic climax of the protests on Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1091205244499621982004-07-30T12:33:00.000-04:002004-07-30T12:34:04.500-04:00What'd everyone think?
Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00666886058966898391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1091036230672039132004-07-28T13:28:00.000-04:002004-07-28T13:37:10.673-04:00Looking for a reason not to pay off those college loans?
Well, look no further. Reuters reports today that Microsoft is looking to sell off the eight-year-old online Slate Magazine. Several buyers are already interested, and thankfully Microsoft says that if it can't reach an agreement with a buyer, it'll keep the magazine around, you know, for sport.
Bill Gates, the article says, is "an avid Jeff Behrenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07849100817628055311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1091034488834808842004-07-28T12:51:00.000-04:002004-07-28T13:10:02.996-04:00CAN YOU FEEL IT
(MDUKAKIS - Matt Rodigheri, WSN)
Story One in our series on the DNC - story two will be available in a few hours.
Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695655.post-1090910332913062752004-07-27T02:30:00.000-04:002004-07-27T02:39:45.016-04:00One quick note before I pass out from exhaustion tonight.
Favorite moment of the day: Bill Clinton sheepishly saying that "when I was in office, the republicans were kinda mean to me."
Favorite trivial moment: during a procedural announcement, a disembodied voice directed convention goers to, and I'm paraphrasing a little, "look to the left of the digital clock, next to the Fox 25 banner." Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04607480067786575356noreply@blogger.com