Rowling 'makes £5 every second'

Hello, author. You're my bitch! Neener, neener!
via | Beeb | Rowling 'makes £5 every second'
J.S. Magruder on Palin: Obama "pals" with terrorists. Palin is a lying pig
mike on Dan Ackroyd shills for CRYSTAL SKULL VODKA!
Alan on Best of the debate coverage
kilian on McCain dead in polls -- must go negative, use race
dave-o on McCain dead in polls -- must go negative, use race

Hello, author. You're my bitch! Neener, neener!
via | Beeb | Rowling 'makes £5 every second'
Photo: Art and Design | James Cauty & son’s ‘Splatter’ exhibition announced
via | telegraph.co.uk | Cartoon characters brutally killed in new Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck art exhibition
Another violent picture shows famous cartoon cat and mouse duo Tom and Jerry as never before - with Tom the cat chopping Jerry into small pieces in a pool of blood and guts.
What I said Thursday: McCain dead in polls -- must go negative, use race
Yeah, Palin went and played the race card. Lipstick on a pit bull trained to bite black folk.
AP | Analysis: Palin's words may backfire on McCain | By DOUGLASS K. DANIEL
And though she may have scored a political hit each time, her attack was unsubstantiated and carried a racially tinged subtext that John McCain himself may come to regret.
Talking Points Memo | Now That's a Political Ad We Can Believe In ...
McCain said this weekend that his campaign was about to get much nastier and dirtier and focus not on the issues or anyone's record, but on sleazy character assaults and lies. This is the Obama camp's response.
Leaders are not people "like me." Leaders are exceptional people not "like me," but in some real way, better.
Wanting someone "like me" means you are too fat and lazy and cowardly to be led to somewhere better.
"She totally reminds me of my cousin!" the delegate screeched. "She's a real woman! The real thing!"
I stared at her open-mouthed. In that moment, the rank cynicism of the whole sorry deal was laid bare. Here's the thing about Americans. You can send their kids off by the thousands to get their balls blown off in foreign lands for no reason at all, saddle them with billions in debt year after congressional year while they spend their winters cheerfully watching game shows and football, pull the rug out from under their mortgages, and leave them living off their credit cards and their Wal-Mart salaries while you move their jobs to China and Bangalore.
And none of it matters, so long as you remember a few months before Election Day to offer them a two-bit caricature culled from some cutting-room-floor episode of Roseanne as part of your presidential ticket.
Make-Believe Maverick : Rolling Stone
Brutal. Honest. Well-researched.
"I'm going to the Middle East," Dramesi says. "Turkey, Kuwait, Lebanon, Iran."
"Why are you going to the Middle East?" McCain asks, dismissively.
"It's a place we're probably going to have some problems," Dramesi says.
"Why? Where are you going to, John?"
"Oh, I'm going to Rio."
"What the hell are you going to Rio for?"
McCain, a married father of three, shrugs.
"I got a better chance of getting laid."
Dramesi, who went on to serve as chief war planner for U.S. Air Forces in Europe and commander of a wing of the Strategic Air Command, was not surprised. "McCain says his life changed while he was in Vietnam, and he is now a different man," Dramesi says today. "But he's still the undisciplined, spoiled brat that he was when he went in."
Read the whole thing. Please.
Legally--and in every way that matters--he is a traitor. He has committed treason against the USA.
And the B.A. Baracus band is there to help you through this rough patch. Ten year veterans of the cover-song scene, Canada's answer to Me First & The Gimme Gimme's brings solid covers of songs from the 80s and a mix of TV show theme songs.
Personally, I dig their cover of Toto's "Africa."
Palin says Obama 'palling around' with terrorists
Palin's reference was to Bill Ayers, one of the founders of the group the Weather Underground. Its members took credit for bombings, including nonfatal explosions at the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol, during the Vietnam War era. Obama, who was a child when the group was active, has denounced Ayers' radical views and activities....
While it is known that Obama and Ayers live in the same Chicago neighborhood, served on a charity board together and had a fleeting political connection, it's a stretch of any reading of the public record to say the pair ever palled around. And it's simply wrong to suggest that they were associated while Ayers was committing terrorist acts.
Nonetheless, Palin made the comments at two appearances in separate states.
PSAs: Consumerist Forced To Cut Staff
The Consumerist and Valleywag both just announced they were laying off staff in the anticipation of lowered ad revenues. They will also be cutting the pay for still-employed bloggers.

The fight against this campaign . . . you don't think *this* is what chased McCain out of Michigan?
McCain said:
The sentences of Sarah Palin, diagrammed. - By Kitty Burns Florey - Slate Magazine
Kelly Link, Magic for Beginners

Kelly Link and Small Beer Press would like to thank Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (USA) and HarperPerennial (UK) for their willingness to participate in making these stories available online. Due to contractual obligations, "The Faery Handbag" and "Magic for Beginners" are not included in this download.
House passes historic financial rescue plan - Oct. 3, 2008

President Bush, speaking less than an hour after the House voted 263 to 171 to pass the bill, is expected to sign it later Friday.
Charles Krauthammer - Hail Mary vs. Cool Barry - washingtonpost.com
This is Charles Krauthammer, conservative columnist for the Washington Post:
When after the Republican convention Obama's poll numbers momentarily slipped behind McCain's, panicked Democrats urged him to get mad. He did precisely the opposite. He got calm. He repositioned himself as ordinary, becoming the earnest factory-floor, coffee-shop, union-hall candidate.
In doing so, he continues his clever convention-speech pivot from primary to general election. In a crowded primary field in which he was the newcomer and the stranger, he rose above the crowd on pure special effects: dazzling rhetoric, natural charisma, and a magic carpet ride of transcendence and hope.
U.S. to Fund Pro-American Publicity in Iraqi Media - washingtonpost.com
Talking Points Memo | On Second Thought
It's the "undergrad who hasn't read the book but gets called on in class" approach to answering questions.
William Gibson Interview -- Void Manufacturing

The whole interview is worth reading.
The limitation to what you can find on Youtube is basically your own imagination. When I think of something, if I don’t automatically think of searching for it on Youtube, I will never see it. When something comes to mind, I try to train myself to google it and then look on Youtube, often with the most amazing results. I think, in the end, if we just kind of run this technology out to its logical conclusion, we will end up with something like a single retina that covers the entire inner surface of a sphere, looking at itself, being quite self-sufficient, and made completely of Youtube videos.
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