He interviewed Dan Savage. He just tries to cram in jokes, whether they fit the discussion or not. blecchhhh

HOLLA!

“WHYCOME??” BWAHAHAHAHA! SHRUB and INTELLECTUAL in the SAME SENTENCE??? :>) :>)

SECONDLY: Here's an article re Mr. President-Elect Obama:

This Week in Magazines: Obama's Tough Calls, Real Missions for James Bond, and the Sex-Subprime Scandal

The United States is the biggest prisoner of the Guantanamo Bay prison camp. How do we free ourselves? As Stuart Taylor Jr. underscores in Nov. 24 Newsweek's “Obama's 250 Tough Calls,” the questions facing Barack Obama aren't quite as easy as his supporters may assume.

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Meanwhile, Newsweek's cover story, “Obama's Lincoln,” may leave even some skeptics with the belief that there is a lot to Doris Kearns Goodwin's “Team of Rivals” notion as an influence on Obama's upcoming cabinet and other administration personnel choices. And most will surely learn that that the key Abe Lincoln lines quoted by Obama at his election night celebration (“We are not enemies, but friends…”) were actually written for Lincoln by his fierce rival, William Seward, who wound up as Secretary of State.

—In Nov. 24 Time's “Bourne-Again Bond,” film critic Richard Corliss calls Daniel Craig's James Bond in Quantum of Solace a “near mute: a cyber- or cipher-Bond with a loyalty chip implanted in a mechanism that's built for murderous ingenuity…He's a brute acting on instinct” Rambo of Her Majesty's Secret Service.”

So it's pretty unclear if this version of 007 could handle Foreign Policy's “The List: Five Real Missions for 007.” Back in the real world, it would love Bond to:

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—There was no shortage of analyses on Barack Obama and race during the campaign and just after his win. But if you want a really, really esoteric musing on race, try, “The Creature from the Black Lagoon: Marilyn Monroe and Whiteness” in Cinema Journal by Lois Banner, (subscription required) a professor of history at the University of Southern California and a frequent author on women and gender. “Despite the many studies of Monroe, no scholar has full examined her whiteness,” Banner writes early on. Let's just concede the point.

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–December Bon Appetit pays homage to Quebec City and its supposedly decadent eating habits, dating to 20- and 30-course meals in the 17th century. “There's a reason the clergymen were fat—what they were eating was incredible,” says one current hotel chef. Elsewhere, if you're a “crustophobic” (fear of pie crust), there is blunt counsel on what to do to avoid store-bought crust. The magazine swears its three tips will work. Good luck.

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—So the economy is tanking and, informs Nov. 24 BusinessWeek, applications are up for graduate schools of business, with the magazine's own ranking placing the University of Chicago's atop the list. The reasons for the applications hike appear to involve so-called Millenials, those born between 1980 and 2000, seen here as “strong-willed, passionate, optimistic, and eager to work,” and showing a greater interest than previous generations in going to B-schools at a younger age.

Ooooo-eeee! My head is hurting! :>) :>)

I will say it , AGAIN, President-=Elect Obama is a SINGULAR ECONOMIC STIMULUS!!! :>) :>)

President-Elect Obama! :>) First Lady Michelle! :>)

Girrrrrl, Ya know she ALWAYS make it for “SPECIAL OCCASIONS!” :>) :>)

http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2008/11/15/330…

it's an interesting overlay, but then they threw in this bogus statement for no good reason:

“Obama self-identifies as black, but with a white mother and a Kenyan father, shares no personal, historical bond with the issue of black slavery in the US.”

i'd like the author to grow up black in America and see if they'd share no 'personal bond' with the last 400 years. good luck with that

Dick Cavett
November 14, 2008, 10:00 pm
The Wild Wordsmith of Wasilla

My favorites:

“Now something has gone wrong with all three television sets. They will only get Sarah Palin.”

“I can play a kind of Alaskan roulette. Any random channel clicked on by the remote brings up that eager face, with its continuing assaults on the English Language.”

“There she is with Larry and Matt and just about everyone else but Dr. Phil (so far). If she is not yet on “Judge Judy,” I suspect it can’t be for lack of trying.”

“What have we done to deserve this, this media blitz that the astute Andrea Mitchell has labeled “The Victory Tour”?

“I feel a little sorry for John. He aimed low and missed.”

BWAhaaaaaaaaa!

Bomani Jones: “So What Now?”

http://www.bomanijones.com/blog/2008/11/05/so-w…

Mr. Jones is mostly known for his sports column writing and for hosting a sports talk show on WDNC “620 The Bull” in Raleigh, NC. But he goes into a lot of different things on his personal blog, so check this post (and others) out.

http://cavett.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/the-…

LOL

He interviewed Dan Savage. He just tries to cram in jokes, whether they fit the discussion or not. blecchhhh