This has been an up and down week for Sarah Palin in my humble view!

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It sort of began for me with Tim Egan of NY Times opining about Sarah Palin and John Edwards being political grifters and sort of the bottom feeders in using politics to line their own pockets!

Then there is her campy vocabulary in her Tea Party speech, like “hopey-changey” and other gems in the dumb and dumber class. Reports from CNN seem to credit her with a “rousing speech”. I found her tone whiny, her vocabulary mind numbing and her style phoney!

Then there was my immediate disconnect when the Tea Baggers began ranting “Sarah for President” or words to that effect!

Is politics in the US more about pop emotions these days? He’s black and not my “cup of tea” so let’s go with Sarah’s sex appeal and “dumb and dumber” political discourse!

Pa-leeeese gimme a break!

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Are they reallly serious?

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Facebook’s Plan To Build A Real Email System And Attack Gmail Is Brilliant

That’s what they headlined at Silicon Alley Insider this AM.

But I don’t get it. Every body knows that the least credible way of doing something techie brilliant is to build a new version or an alternative. And yet it’s not built yet and they say it will be brilliant!

Who’se drinking the Cool Aide today???????????

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I spent some time tonight with Fox News and found this gem

Fox News does many things that I don’t find very couth, but this image is a real find.

Katie Price is from the UK, but she is also from drop dead gorgeous land!

Is this the kind of content that gives Fox Channel top ratings? I can believe that in a small narrow way!

In case you are wondering about the size and look of her boobs then click here!

I think that you will agree the picture of the real Katie is spectacular!

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Palin and Edwards – political grifters

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Timothy Egan writes opinion pieces in the Editorial pages of the NY Times. I think of him as the kind of guy who connects things which are not very pleasant some times.

In this paragraph from today’s column, he describes the obvious trait that John Edwards and Sarah Palin share. They are grifters, playing the game for their own monetary advantage with an infectious smile as they cash in!

Palin and Edwards are two of an American archetype, opportunists playing to outrage while taking care of themselves. They are both attractive, with that lucky combination of genes that rarely lands on more than one member of an extended family. They can both hold an audience without saying anything of substance, or even making sense.

The picture is not pretty but truth has no hold with pretty!

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A striking image of downtown Dubai

The unreality of skyscrapers in the desert is captured in this unique view! Burj Khalifa, the tallest free standing man-made structure in the world!

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I like to watch tennis matches between top players

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But there are times while I am watching a match that I wonder why so much technology and expensive TV time is given over to a game. Some times the players don’t seem as focused as I like to think they should be. Those are the times when I wonder about the “meaning of pro tennis“. Do I watch to see which player will dominate to win? Do I watch because some famous rich players can be beaten and then I get some sort of psychic satisfaction, even if my life is not changed one iota by the results of a match in a major tennis event?

Murray beat Nadal last night quite soundly in Melbourne at the Australian Open. The article in the NY Times mentions that after that match “questions linger” about Nadal’s ability to win the “big ones” after recovering from a major knee injury. Do I watch because I want to see how this kind of sports drama plays out? How one player finds the energy and determination on a given day to beat the other? How even world class players can have good and bad days “on the job”, or find it such a challenge to regain their playing confidence after serious injury?

Maybe I like to watch the special drama of individuals playing at their best to see which one can find the way to beat the other and that’s entertaining!

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The Blue Planet, or Earth

I believe that this French language site is going to offer some exciting and eye-filling graphics. The sound is pretty good too! Here’s a sample:

And here’s the link!

I found this site via Encyclopedia of Life with a Twitter tweet!

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Apple’s flair for the remarkable artistic statement

Companies use all kinds of graphics to get attention. But I believe that Apple finds remarkable graphics to highlight it’s quality of business. Here’s the latest example:

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My new web posting badge – Sarcmark

I guess it’s a sign that the “free Internet” isn’t anymore. To use the registered Sarcmark, you will have to pay $1.99 so I skitched it and will use that “free version” with my Scribefire postings as here:

A description of “hell on earth”

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It does not include Islamists or even terrorists and affects only one person.

I have read more than one essay by Tony Judt, but I didn’t realize that he was suffering from Lou Gehrig’s Disease.

My sister died after suffering from MS for many years. So this dis-ease is part of my family’s history. Also, my cousin Fred Gagnon died an early death (50 something) because of that dis-ease.

But I had never read such a bleak description of the effects of it until I read this in the NY Review of Books, which, over the years, has published many Judt essays.

This is as close to “hell on earth” as I like to contemplate!

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