Obama: Official candidate of people with way too much time on their hands

From the WSJ.

A few people started watching the video, which shows the sign next to another sign endorsing a local candidate, beside a flowerbed. The only reliable action consists of the occasional car passing in the background.

Still, by that first evening, more than 100 people were watching. The next day, when Preston checked the site during lunch at school, more than 450 were there, not only from around the U.S. but as far away as Australia, Sri Lanka and Japan.

(Thanks Gadi)

Sarah Palin vs. Ms. South Carolina redux

I guess this has been going on for awhile. This was posted Aug. 30. That's me, late to the trend again!

More Sarah Palin / Miss whatever stuff

And now, the National Review says...

Only Palin can save McCain, her party, and the country she loves. She can bow out for personal reasons, perhaps because she wants to spend more time with her newborn. No one would criticize a mother who puts her family first.

Do it for your country.

(thanks Elizabeth)

Sarah Palin vs. Ms. South Carolina

Just starting to see the Sarah Palin vs. Miss South Carolina references on Twitter and YouTube. I don't think Palin's performance was quite that bad, but I wonder if it will stick? Miss South Carolina, Caitlin Upton, you may recall, bungled a Miss Teen USA question on why so many Americans can't locate the US on a world map.

Does anybody really read liveblogging?

It's usually the worst, most boring kind of reporting. Personally I hate it. I think it speaks to the journalists ego more than anything else. Well if you like it, here's one for you: a twittered child's funeral. Seriously.

From the Washington Post.

In a move that was not only morbid, but called into question by a slew of critics, a Colorado newspaper reporter Twittered a three-year old's funeral Wednesday after the child died in a car accident earlier in the week.

Obama mocks environmentalists with "fish" comment

Or is it chip shop owners? Or geriatric aquatic creatures? Either way, I think white female voters should be offended!

Said Obama:

You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It's still going to stink after eight years.

I'm back; I'm old; what's it to you?

I'm back. Shaken up, bumped around and seeing the world through new (older) eyes after an amazing birthday evenement in Quebec this past month.

Thanks so much to all of you who mailed and emailed Facebooked and *gasp* dropped by for my big birthday party. It was amazing, and too quick, and amazing all over again.

I have a lot to say, but I'm working again, so not a lot of time to say it. I do want to make a note of this story though, because it relates to food that comes in buckets. Maybe these people should work for TSA.

Colonel Harland Sanders' handwritten recipe of 11 herbs and spices was to be removed Tuesday from safekeeping at KFC's corporate offices for the first time in decades.

The temporary relocation is allowing KFC to revamp security around a yellowing sheet of paper that contains one of the country's most famous corporate secrets.

KFC hired off-duty police officers and private security guards to whisk the document away to an undisclosed location in an armored car.

The recipe will be slid into a briefcase and handcuffed to a security expert.