This moron would have been better off if he’d stolen a belt.
Back In Business
I got home this morning, and after doing a little rewiring on a phone jack, seemed to get everything up, including DSL.
Driving home from Fort Lauderdale International, I was impressed at the damage. You’ve all heard the expression, “Gee, it looks like a hurricane came through here.” Well, it really, really looks like a hurricane came through here. Lots of dead and uprooted trees, bereft of leaves, toppled palms, skeletons of billboards, piles of debris. And it’s been almost two weeks since the storm. The house is all right, other than a lot of damaged foliage, and screens blown out on the pool patio. Fortunately, the frame is in good shape, so it’s just a matter of screen replacement.
Now to catch up on a couple weeks of business around here.
Back To Florida
I’m flying home tonight from LA on a red eye. We got power back last night (ahead of schedule, which was nice), but I don’t know if I’ll have Internet. If I do, I’ll check in tomorrow, and if not, I’ll check in when I do, so if you don’t hear from me, that will probably be why.
Two Prophetic Items You Might Have Missed
Missing The Point, As Usual
In another dispatch from Planet Strawman, Mark Whittington writes, among other nonsense:
Settling the Moon or any place else in space without a government presence is a fantasy.
I haven’t seen anyone propose that space will or should be settled without a government presence. Mark confuses legitimate concerns about the architecture that NASA has chosen to return to the moon with proposals for anarchy. He’s apparently impervious to irony when, in his indefatigable NASA worship, he accuses others of being kool-aid drinkers.
[Update at 10:18 AM PST]
Jon Goff has a much longer response.
[Afternoon update]
Robot Guy has further thoughts.
Norma Jean Didn’t Want To Say Goodbye
The supposedly suicidal Marilyn Monroe didn’t seem to be in such a hurry to shuffle off this mortal coil:
June DiMaggio tells the magazine that her mother, Lee, who was the last person to speak to Monroe, recalls that Monroe screamed and dropped the phone on the night she died. June says her mother believed that more than one person entered Monroe
Norma Jean Didn’t Want To Say Goodbye
The supposedly suicidal Marilyn Monroe didn’t seem to be in such a hurry to shuffle off this mortal coil:
June DiMaggio tells the magazine that her mother, Lee, who was the last person to speak to Monroe, recalls that Monroe screamed and dropped the phone on the night she died. June says her mother believed that more than one person entered Monroe
Norma Jean Didn’t Want To Say Goodbye
The supposedly suicidal Marilyn Monroe didn’t seem to be in such a hurry to shuffle off this mortal coil:
June DiMaggio tells the magazine that her mother, Lee, who was the last person to speak to Monroe, recalls that Monroe screamed and dropped the phone on the night she died. June says her mother believed that more than one person entered Monroe
Do They Get It?
Probably not, but Jonathan “Pajamas” Klein is canning Aaron Brown at CNN, according to Drudge (no permalink, which is one of the reasons that Drudge has not been, and is not now, a blogger):
We have made some programming decisions which will impact our prime time schedule as well as our colleague Aaron Brown. Aaron will be leaving CNN and is very much looking forward to some well-deserved time off with his family.
Aaron has made enormous contributions to CNN since his groundbreaking anchoring of Sept. 11th through the war in Iraq to the Tsunami to the recent hurricanes. Outside of the big stories, on a nightly basis, Aaron has provided our audiences with insight into the events of the United States and the world with eloquence and the highest journalist integrity.
Besides his stellar work as an anchor, Aaron stands as an absolutely brilliant writer, evident by the thoughtful perspective he injects into every story he touches.
Personally, I will miss Aaron and his wicked sense of humor. We cannot thank Aaron enough for the skills and professionalism he brought to CNN. Given his respect throughout the industry, there is no question that he will be missed.
Translation: he was tanking us in his timeslot. Don’t let the door hit your kiester on the way out.
But despite this, I suspect that Mr. Pajamas still doesn’t understand why his (and his previous employer, CBS’ ratings were in the toilet, and it amazes me that CNN thought that they could pull up their ratings by hiring either Klein or Brown) network continues to lose market share. When I hear that they’ve made an offer to Brit Hume (for twice or more of the money that he makes at Fox), then I’ll know that they’ve figured it out. For now, I can only conclude that they know that Brown is a problem, but not why.
Here I Sit…
…all broken hearted. Tried to sit…
…up.
OK, I know it doesn’t scan, but the punchline is that he couldn’t.
Sit up, that is.
He was glued to the seat.
I hate when that happens (though I think that I would have noticed something amiss long before I got stuck, but perhaps his derri