Well, That Was Nice

I am not going to comment on it because you all watched it. Just bask.

Watch Obama’s Speech

I have nothing else to say. Peel your eyes away from this captivating website (235 unique views today, site record), turn off your computer and watch the speech. Please.

Obama Tax Plan

For those of you with careers (ahem) or people who plan on having them sometime during the Obama presidency, I offer you this: your expected tax cut under his proposed plan. The data is care of the non-partisan Tax Policy Center. Enjoy. Of course this is of very little interest to me unless he is reelected.

Cop of the Day

Make sure you watch the end so you get a great view of the choke hold briefly placed upon the small, non-threatening member of the press corps. This stuff still surprises me- not because I am shocked by the cops’ behavior (I’m not), but because these geniuses continue to behave they way they do when cameras are rolling.

Letterman Top 10 8/27/08

Last night’s “Top Ten” list was “Top Ten Democratic National Convention Pickup Lines” (“The Late Show,” CBS, 8/27).

10) “Wanna form a more perfect union?”

9) “Something’s rising and it’s not the national debt.”

8 ) “I’m stiffer than John Kerry.”

7) “Let’s go someplace and release our delegates.”

6) “Care to join the wife and me for a little ‘bipartisanship’?”

5) “I’ll make you scream like Howard Dean.”

4) “Now that’s what I call a stimulus package.”

3) “I’m gonna Barack your world.”

2) “Wanna pretend we’re Republicans and have gay bathroom sex?”

1) “Hi, I’m John Edwards.”

Straight Talk Express….

…has died. Far from the “independent thinker” described in one of the comments on the site, we are now faced with the muzzled, party-line McCain that has emerged during this campaign. He is so on message and tight-lipped that the tag “straight talk” should never again be affixed to his candidacy. Such transparency:

[Your] campaign today is more disciplined, more traditional, more aggressive. From your point of view, why the change?
I will do as much as we possibly can do to provide as much access to the press as possible.

But beyond the press, sir, just in terms of …
I think we’re running a fine campaign, and this is where we are.

Do you miss the old way of doing it?
I don’t know what you’re talking about.

Really? Come on, Senator.
I’ll provide as much access as possible …

Morning News; August 28th, 2008

1) Mets split the two game set against on the back of another two-HR game by Carlos Delgado. Yanks lose to Boston again, further convincing me that their season is over.

2) Barack Obama was officially nominated yesterday at the DNC, making him the first African American to be nominated by a major party.

3) While it seems like a reflexive response among all American to criticize the quality of their municipal water, we New Yorkers can be confident that such criticisms cannot be leveled against our own, which is the best in the state. It is the first time we’ve been rated number one. I eagerly anticipate my first swig of Chicago water- where I will undoubtedly spit it out and remind everyone how much better things are in New York (bagels, water, pizza..etc)

4) Our lowly Dollar is gaining some ground on the Euro and the Pound, but not enough to make vacations to Europe or England even a possibility for this loan-burdened law student (it doesn’t help that fuel prices have driven airfare through the roof as well).

LPGA TOUR brings in a language barrier

http://sports.espn.go.com/golf/columns/story?columnist=sirak_ron&id=3555947

Nearly two years ago, Seon Hwa Lee, who was a shy 20-year-old at the time, picked her way to the front of a packed ballroom in Donald Trump’s opulent Mar-a-Lago mansion and, with trembling hands and a voice that cracked with emotion, accepted the LPGA Rookie of the Year Award with a speech that pulled all in the room to their feet in appreciation. Touched by the response and drained by the effort, Lee tried unsuccessfully to hide her tears. The nerve she touched that night was laid bare, not so much by the words she spoke as by the fact they were uttered in English.