Rick's Rants

Yeah, it’s tired, it’s so neocon it hurts, and so far it’s nearly impossible to follow unless you are paying more attention than I’m will to give to give to it. Still, there is something about the hacker girl fight between Janine Garafalo and (stolidly right-wing) Mary Jane Rajskub that I dug.

The New York Times – Breaking News, World News & Multimedia

UPDATE: Well, this is embarrassing! This link no longer works, and I can’t remember what it was I was so excited about. Or how ironic was the title?

Is Smallville the last show with a theme song?

Addendum (11/20):True Blood has a (great) theme song, but has the HBO luxury of 51 minute episodes with no advertising breaks.

Update 2: (11/28)Psych has a true theme song (written for the show with the show name in the lyric)!

The New York times has a great graphic outlining some of the changes in the electorate.

Extremely powerful:

Pretty fascinating, watching the debate (rerun) on CNN with the instant audience reaction graphing. Important to note the data displayed: “uncommitted Ohio voters” with graph tracking men and women averaged separately.Nuclear power seems to turn everyone off. The worst reactions I saw consistently. Obama gets consistently more positive reactions than McCain. Negitive reactions across the [...]

What is the war that John McCain “won”?

Here a Republican defeated by the Club for Growth in the primary endorses the Democratic candidate in a great “post-partisan” ad (ripped from Dkos’s MissLaura):

While I’m stealing things from Dk, Commenting on a piece of Palinology on the evenings’ Katie Couric piece, Gooch speculates on how she would answer if asked how she spells her [...]

Pierce is dead on about The Who Sell Out. “I Can See For Miles” is, perhaps, the Best Single Recording of All Time, but, oh man, when it is set up the album!! (Was it Pearlman in Crawdaddy who came up with “turkey tongueing?”

And, by the way, isn’t Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild a member [...]

OMG the Country First RNC video (narration by Robert Duvall) was ALL white people, except one black man with a number across his chest!!!