"Love for All"

One more reason to love him: Bjorn Borg launches a dating site with the below commercial. Love for all, indeed!

It's Real!

This is not a joke. I don't think.

A Worthy Read

A friend sent me this. It's about a butler worthy of hugs from a First Lady and state dinner invitations from the President. It's the best thing I've read all week, a touching and human story about race, and progress, and presidents.

'This is About the Human Heart'

A dose of history and common sense from Keith Olbermann about gay marriage. Bravo.

Mr. President-Elect, and Grandpa

The kid with the threatening stick in the back, like so many others, is on the wrong side of history. No you can't, little boy.

But yes we can!

Not Entirely Red

Obams has won 20 percent of Nebraska's electoral votes. More here.

That gives Obama 365 electoral votes. The most ever won by W was 286, who also won 271 Supreme-Court-aided votes in 2000.

Hetero Divorce: Still Legal

The people of California denied Ellen her marriage rights on Tuesday.

Apparently a loving lesbian couple presents a threat to traditional marriage, according to the will of a majority of voters.

Assholes.

Where's the proposition banning heterosexual divorce?

UPDATE: Good news for Ellen and 17,999 others.

The First Family-Elect

Totally, totally adorable.

And we totally, totally forgive Michelle for that dress.

Keep hope alive, mis amigos.

(Photo source.)

Four Words: "President-Elect Barack Obama"

Three more: "God Bless America"

Ignore my last post: The big winner tonight is the promise of America.

The Big Winner on Tuesday Will Be ...

Sarah Palin.

No. I don't think she'll win the election; in fact, I think she is costing John McCain votes. A lot of them.

Nor do I think she is necessarily eyeing a run for president in 2012. This probably isn't her first option, nor her best.

I think she's looking to cash in.

I expect that sometime in the next four years she will pursue or be presented with a syndicated talk show opportunity, on radio or TV. Think of her as a female Rush Limbaugh, an Oprah for conservatives. (Limbaugh made a reported $33 million last year.) Sure, a lot of people hate her, including a segment of moderate Republicans. But a niche of people absolutely love her.

She'll make millions.

She could even replace Elisabeth Hasslebeck on The View, or join Elisabeth on some new syndicated show for conservative soccer moms and Jane the Plumber.

On Tuesday, Barack Obama will become the next president of the United States, inheriting all the messes from Bush the Lesser. What he faces won't be easy.

But Sarah Palin? Sometime in the next four years, if she chooses this path, she'll be a filthy rich celebrity.

POW Fashion

I recently had the opportunity to watch Hogan's Heroes in high-def on HD Net for the first time.

Don't Hogan's Nazi-supplied pajamas look comfortable?

Separated at Birth?

Election 2008: When Dirty Tricks met Mr. Clean.

I Am Not Joe the Plumber

Twenty years ago this week: It was a crisp fall day and, as an idealistic (or possibly just drunk) college student, I walked house-to-house canvassing for Michael Dukakis and Lloyd Bentsen along with some of my college Democrat friends.

A recent John McCain TV spot took me back to these times because the ad made me think of a Dukakis commercial from way back when. The Dukakis commercial, embedded below, is esoteric. It pictures politicians in a smoke-filled room talking about Dan Quayle. Just terrible. This didn't resonate with anyone.



I thought of this terrible Dukakis ad this week when McCain came out with the below ad. This, too, is esoteric, and won't change anyone's mind, and might also just confuse people. It's lame. It's all about Joe the Plumber, the Hero McCain is still harping on even though "Sam the Plumber" hasn't exactly passed the scratch-and-sniff bullshit detector tests with flying colors.



I'd also like to say, just for the record, that unlike the people in this video, I am NOT Joe the plumber. I owe no back taxes, I'm not a Republican plant, my taxes would go down under Barack Obama, I would not enjoy being a media whore, and my real first name is Joe.

Two Statements of Fact, and One Statement of Opinion

1. Linda Lavin from Alice turned 71 this month.

2. Linda Lavin is a year younger than John McCain.

3. John McCain reminds me of Mel.

'The Best Advice I Ever Got'

A couple weeks ago, on the day the stock market fell 777 points to what was then the LOWEST LEVELS EVER, a copy of the new issue of Fortune Magazine arrived on my desk. A major business leader was featured giving readers "The Best Advice I Ever Got." It's a regular feature.

Here's what she had to say. (Click to embiggen.)




Although I admire this spirit of optimism, it's also the same spirit that has me regretting that I didn't switch all the money in my 401K plan from stocks into something more stable, say a tangible physical commodity. Like Kitty Litter, dirty diapers or recycled animal feces "repurposed" as fertilizer.

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This week the stock market again reached the LOWEST LEVELS EVER.

It's a reminder for people like our Fortune Friend pictured above that fearlessness sometimes leads to recklessness, and then we all lose.

Failure is an option, my friends. This is why we need to keep hope alive.

Deja Vu All Over Again

THIS happened to me this morning. Again.

Barack Obama: Reducing road rage and blood pressure all across America.

The Last Word: Kirk's Phaser is NOT on Stun

Below is a textbook case of a celebrity having to have The Last Word.

Really, who cares?