There’s been some discussion this morning about the fact that the major news networks announced Obama’s pick before the promised text messages and emails went out. The media was essentially stalking Biden and put 2 and 2 together (kind of remarkable they can still do that, actually) when Secret Service showed up. Obama didn’t make the announcement to the media first. They leaked it to get a scoop. To try to stay as good to his word as he could at that point, his campaign got the messages out as …

We’d speculated about this ’round these parts, but the rumors are flying hot ‘n’ heavy tonight, and political creatures thrive on rumors.
Could’ve been better, could’ve been worse. As we’ve said, Biden has his baggage, but he’s definitely got his advantages.
And he’ll look properly dignified at funerals.
Update: For those joining us just for the Michael Phelps pictures, let me clarify that it looks like Barack Obama has chosen Joe Biden as his Vice-Presidential candidate.
Update #2: Yep, it’s official.

I will quote just barely enough to let us get by with “fair use”. Trust me when I tell you that two sentences of this utter codswollop is more than enough.
Maybe I should be a wee bit more specific: so far as I can tell at this point, it is merely Ron Fournier himself who is an idiot:
In picking Sen. Joe Biden to be his running mate, Barack Obama sought to shore up his weakness — inexperience in office and on foreign policy — rather than underscore his strength as …

I’m not a huge fan of professional sports, to put it mildly, but I’m a fan of good writing, and a ton of good writing is done in that particular field. So I like to look in on what various folks are doing from time to time, and the Olympics have provided a deep well to draw from.
Sometimes.
Dear Lord, Adrian Wojnarowski makes me want to vomit. This is the absolute worst kind of fanboyish, the-league-above-everything mentality that makes me NOT be a sports fan.
Here he is on Olympic basketball:
As the …

Brandy beat me to the Friday Night Fluff, but I’m gonna post this anyway. I just thought that, in honor of his VP choice and his impending official nomination and all, it was time to bring back Barack OBollywood:

Yes, I’ve been digging through the Moue archives lately. Sue me.

Acallidryas and I watched Daria constantly when it was on MTV (probably the last time either of us watched that channel). This was at least partially influenced by our similarities to the two main characters (she was Daria, I was Jane). Amusingly, Mr. Callidryas shares some personality characteristics with Tom (but I didn’t date him first). And thankfully, we didn’t know anyone like Brittany and Kevin in high school.
This is the episode “Antisocial Climbers” (the one where they take a class field trip into the woods) split into two parts: