I have been trying to wrap my head around John McCain’s selection of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his vice presidential nominee today, and I’ll be honest, I’m having no luck. I don’t know if it will help or hurt McCain, or what exactly it says about the state of our politics. I know that […]
I’ve been telling myself for months that I should write a post about why I support Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. And I think that what it comes down to is that over the last ten years or so, I have become deeply pessimistic about the present state of American democracy but almost equally optimistic about […]
Very interesting article at The New Republic about the possibility that air travel – and air freight – might be getting a whole lot more expensive over the next several years. The basic thrust (hah!) is that air flight requires enormous amounts of fuel, and there’s no equivalent of the Prius or the electric car […]
The major thoughts rattling through my head after the John Edwards news last week seem to be as follows: Good thing the Democrats didn’t nominate this guy. Man, I feel awful for the Edwards supporters who feel let down or worse. If Obama ever does something this dumb, you’re gonna need to keep me away […]
I have to say I was pretty disappointed reading this interview with Aaron Sorkin on GQ’s site. Sorkin’s work on The West Wing was one of the big pushes that motivated me to start Not News. And even when I lost interest in that show, and when Studio 60 turned into a major disappointment, I […]
Back when Not News had a message board, I said that we should have an official award for things that seemed like a good idea at the time. I was motivated by hearing the Julio Iglesias/Willie Nelson duet “To All the Girls I Loved Before,” so I suggested the award be named in their honor. […]
A brief aside here – I’ve been bemoaning the lack of lemonade in my fridge this summer, in part because I don’t like the taste of a lot of store-bought juice, in part because I’ve been trying to cut down on the high fructose corn syrup, and in part because the price of lemons has […]
This NY Times article on rising shipping costs is worth a read, if only for the examples of head-scratching activity that somehow makes sense given our current energy and economic policy. When I think of the effort that is required to ship something from China to the US, it boggles my mind that it is […]