Archive for September 27th, 2009
Late Night Video — the SNL Mocking!
And who gets mocked in this portion of the clip? The Idiot Beck, of course. Whose adventures in spelling are apparently meant to lead a nation or somesuch happy horse you-know-what.
Conservative Icon William Safire Has Died
Conservative icon William Safire died today, according to the New York Times. My condolences to his friends and family. William Safire hardly ever said anything I agreed with, but his wit and style makes him stand out. Safire coined the phrase “nattering nabobs of negativism” among others and had a long-running column on language and […]
Read All About It In the Sunday Papers-September 27, 2009
LEAD STORY-The (UK) Independent: In the Future, We’ll E-Mail Toast. Oh, and Live Forever. A Baby Boomer’s Dream, and IT COULD HAPPEN. The living forever part. Not sure how the Series of Tubes Called the Internet will adapt to melted butter: …or at least that’s what Ray Kurzweil thinks. He has spent his life inventing […]
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