Posts by Russell Brown
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Um, where's my tequila salt? :) But, seriously, kudos to you for trying to make sense of that interview -- as far as I can tell, if you spliced the DNA of McVicar and Peter Williams you still wouldn't come up with a decent half-wit.
Quite. Williams just sounded batty by the end.
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Oh well. The Republicans seem to have decided they can't win by making any positive offering.
They're now officially going evil.
I actually don't think it will work beyond the Malkin/Instapundit crazies, but it's pretty telling that a month out they've got nothing else to say.
When they lose, I hope there are people of principle who can turn that party around. For the foreseeable future, America will have only two potential parties of government, and the fact that one of them is captured by an infantile stupidity isn't good.
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Y'know, I was all set to be snobby about Genius (like, how could some software gimmick possibly inform my hard-won taste?) but it really does deliver pretty good playlists out of my existing library.
Various people have noticed that it doesn't work with the Beatles, and surmised that Genius can only work with music that's not on the iTunes Store.
My guess is that it struggles with artists who aren't on the store, because it picked me an obscure Peter Tosh live track from an album that's not on the store.
OTOH, it totally choked on a remix of Ofra Haza's 'Im Nin'Alu' and there are five other versions of that on the iTunes Store. Intriguing ...
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Meanwhile, the comments accompanying an Instapundit post-poll debate (Surprise! Palin 75-25) are seriously deranged. Glenn Reynolds and Malkin seem happy to let their reputations go down with the party.
Via: Instaputz.
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If Nate Silver's right then the fear that this person could one day be at the heart of power is receding pretty fast and probably not worth wasting too much more energy on.
This first-hand report of the McCain ground game, or lack thereof in Missouri, makes me think "landslide" more than anything else so far. It makes the Republicans seem like the last days of Rome.
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Latest on the Troopergate investigation the Republicans are trying to stonewall.
Having been given the raspberry by a judge, they're now going to the Alaska Supreme Court to try and stop the report being released next Friday, as scheduled.
That's just not going to be good.
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Granted, but I'm sticking with my gut feel that middle America will have eaten Palin up (quiet, Craig!).
But there's just no evidence that Palin broke through to anyone who wasn't already locked in to vote for her anyway. The poling says independents and committed voters went for Biden quite strongly.
Maybe she converted a few people who might not otherwise have voted, but she did that from day one anyway. (Nice work by Biden getting her to sign up to civil unions though ... )
Me, I'm thinking that Americans might actually be more exercised about the economy this time than the insane culture war that's defined the Republicans for a generation. And if that's the case, Obama wins.
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Also: Still don't have it quite right with the new grinder. It's not just finding the new grind, it's developing a muscle-memory for the right tamp. There's something unquantifiable about it.
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@Islander:
Peter - Lagavulin?
When I get a royalty cheque, I buy Lagavulins I havent yet tried...my extreme indulgence...
Mark Harris - you can get cask-strength Laphroaig from Whisky Galore in Christchurch & Meehams in Dunedin-If you ever run out of Lagavullins to sample, can I recommend two Talisker private bottlings?
The Adelphi Breath of the Isles is a beautiful pale, astringent dram that's like inhaling sea air, and the Old Malt Cask Director's Tactical Selection is spicy and complex. Neither is cheap, but both are brilliant. Whisky Galore will know the score for you.
(There's also a Hart Brothers bottling that I found a bit underwhelming, but not unpleasant, and a 16 yo that I got duty-free in Singapore last year, which is smooth but shows the way some of these whiskies can lose their zest with age.)
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And I see Mr. Slater is now trying to bully poneke, the hubris of him and his offsiders is truly astonishing to behold.
Quite:
"Let me tell you one thing though Poneke, get anything wrong and I’m going to gun for you on the blog."
What a dick.
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