Hollywood Dementia Watch: Mamie VanDoren (center, above) is not only still alive (!) but is treating her BDS by blogging @ the aptly named INSIDE/OUT. Out-Streisands Streisand, but then she's got a lot less to lose.
Trickle-Up Economics: "A North Carolina waitress on Saturday lauded the Democratic-initiated increase in the minimum wage, saying in the party's weekly radio address that the extra money will have a ripple effect on millions of lives." N.C. Waitress Applauds Minimum Wage Hike
Poor lady. She probably missed this small "Democratic-initiated" detail: "After raising the minimum wage by 70 cents this week, many in Congress are ready to give themselves a pay increase of roughly $4,400 a year.That would take their annual salaries in 2008 to nearly $170,000 -- unless a bipartisan coalition can block it." Members of Congress stand to receive automatic salary increases. By my math the waitress would have to work 6,286 hours for her raise to equal theirs.
Okay, okay, okay. These people are seriously starting to freak me out:
Hillary Clinton supporter Susan Bremer rallys for her candidate. And it's going to get worse. Much worse.[ See " Candidates Compete For Vital Idgit Vote" below.]
Mud-wrestling in the Godsphere: A dour, and I mean "sour, Swede takes a punch at Robert Godwin. Bad idea. "I will proceed to bring this grumpy nederfoker down, baby. Down to Chinatown. Point by point. " One Cosmos: Tangling With a Devout Euratheist
The cataclysmic foreplay begins at Drudge:
"Gentlemen, start your bongs."
iPhone -- The Blowback Begins: "That my $600 Jesus Phone can surf the Web and make calls so elegantly but can't do some very useful, very basic things out of the box sets off something that I can only describe as consumer-electronic cognitive dissonance. -- Popular Science Blog First, PopSci Blog, remember the golden rule: "Never buy Version 1.0 of anything." Second, "Never spend $600 on something that needs mitten clips but has no place to attach them. You will be leaving it behind."
Via Instapundit
Dueling headlines at Google News as of 10 PM:
Heaven and earth are ruthless, and treat the Ten Thousand Things as straw dogs; the sage is ruthless, and treats the people as straw dogs.-- Tao Te Ching
In The Know: Candidates Compete For Vital Idgit Vote
I'm glad I'm not one of those idjit voters. I always do a ton of careful research on the candidate's positions on vital issues. Last year I voted for Bright Shiny Object. It was just so pretty... Much more appealing than Mason Jar Full Of Raw Sewage.
Posted by: Mumblix Grumph at August 18, 2007 3:49 AMRe: iPhone -- "The Blowback Begins"
That's a non-story. There is no blowback, and overall satisfaction among owners is very high. But news about the iPhone sells, and negative news sells even better.
Actual iPhone survey: http://ce.seekingalpha.com/article/44709
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