It’s a good product, I’m not complaining that DirecTV’s HD offering is light, but that the hype their PR department uses is absolute outright lies; nothing but pure bullshit.  When you use filler channels like regional sports channels (most of which have no content) and PPVs (often duplicates showing the same movie) you’re gaming the system in claiming 134 HD channels.  And if you have no plans on adding a channel in a given year don’t fucking make the announcement the year  before; is it really that hard to not be full of shit?

Charlie Gibson come on down!

Anybody saw the debate on ABC between Obama and Clinton hosted by Gibson and George Stephanopoulos knows that Charlie has a soft touch for the ladies.  That or he really just doesn’t like Obama; at any rate, I think we can rest assure that Charlie won’t be asking Palin the sort of questions that the McCain camp fears.  You know questions like “why did you flip flop on the bridge to nowhere” or “why do you insist on calling snowmobiles snow machines?  What are you Canadian?”  No instead I’m guessing Charlie will reach deep down and find his inner Colbert when interviewing Gov. Palin, observe:

“Gov. Palin: great mother, or the greatest?”

“Admit it, you should have won Miss Alaska?”

“If you were selling me on eBay, how would you describe me?”

“If I was you child what eccentric name would you give me?”

So clearly we can all expect that the enigma that is Sarah Palin to be decoded by Charlie Gibson.

STOP!

Don’t feel the need to email me (and a couple of hundred/thousand other Democrats) your poems about Senator Obama, or your songs about Hillary.  They’re dreadful, simply terrible.   And why CNN and others feel the need to punish ups by showing them is beyond me.  Nobody needs to hear a middle aged man calling himself “Kid Brooklyn” yelling for a minute and a half about how he should be vice president.

So in conclusion, please I beg of you, feel free to keep your hidden “talents” hidden and to yourself.  We’ll both be happier in the long run.

Your,

Hank

What her backers don’t want to mention is how she came to win those states; or her lack of party unity on the way to said victories. Every major candidate withdrew their names from Michigan, except Hillary, and Obama didn’t campaign in Florida. Now they’re claiming that these banana republic-esque votes should be counted as legitimate contests, and that we should ignore the fact that on issues where the national party showed unity she choose to be opportunistic.

The latest twist is Hillary’s donor demanding their money back, to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Money given knowing that the primaries were in violation of DNC rules, money given known that the primaries would not count. The message is clear, if Hillary can’t beat him following the rules, you had damn well better write new ones. Which is ultimately the reason Obama has done so well against her in this election; her win at all cost mentality makes it clear that this isn’t about the country, it’s about her getting what she thinks is rightfully hers, what she considers owed her.

We owe her nothing.

This is interesting in that Gawker is one of the first media companies that exists solely as a collection of blogs; no hard website or old media ties, just a diverse collection of blogs. They’re advertising driven and rely upon page hits to generate income. Some are more successful then others, but Wonkette has always been a vanity name plate; well known in political circles but generating fairly low page counts (around 150,000 compared to 600,000 for Jalopnik and 3,000,000 for gizmodo.)

So what does this mean? Probably very little, given Wonkette’s level of notoriety and the lack of involvement by founder Ana Marie Cox one would have to assume it’s peaked for the near term. Unless there is another major scandal it can get out in front of (i.e. Washingtonienne, Mark Foley scandal), it’s hard to see how these firing will lead to any sort of revival. But one does have to question whether or not it will continue at the same level of quality. Why at this point would anybody with skill take the job knowing that unless a Senator is caught with a goat in his office you’re probably not going to be able to generate the page views to keep the job?

Thank you?

Yes, Roy is horrid in coverage, if you see somebody getting burned over the top, it’s going to be Roy. He is without question a spectacular hitter and would make a pretty fierce weakside linebacker (as long as he didn’t have to drop into coverage often) but he’s an average at best DB.

As for Romo stinking up the joint in front of Jessica Simpson, yesterday was a team effort in suck and pretty much a continuation of the Lions game really. For most of the season the Cowboys have had a “only the fourth quarter matters” attitude and while you can pull that off against a Lions team in free fall; the Eagles still have enough talent to put together a game here and there. And if they’re going to put it together, you’d better bet it will be against the Cowboys.

Still for Cowboys’ fans there isn’t much to complain about, Wade has brought a sense of peace and with that focus to the team. Jason Garret has proven to be at least so far an offensive genius in waiting and high on the list of potential head coaches next year. Hopefully the Eagle game will renew the focus of the offense and get them moving in the right direction again.

Hamilton blown the world championship?  Check

Cowboys ran over by the Patriots?  Check

Absolutely no idea what’s going on in this election?  Check

At least Layer Cake was brilliant.  Yeah, I just finally got around to seeing Layer Cake.