Archive: April, 2008
Unfortunately, a tad under the weather today, so that means that You -- Time magazine's 2006 Person of the Year -- will be in charge of Attytood.
Here to comment on today's news is Simply Red and their 1987 smash, "The Wright Thing":
From the AP:
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — Democrat Barack Obama said Tuesday he was outraged and appalled by the latest comments from his former pastor, who asserted that criticism of his fiery sermons is an attack on the black church and the U.S. government was responsible for the creation of the AIDS virus.
The world is out to get the Flyers -- even as they tear up the Stanley Cup playoffs. Interesting theory.
Out for a while -- post your own conspiracy theories.
Campaign '80
Which message will resonate with voters?
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- Jimmy Carter |
- Ronald Reagan |
It's fashionable to bash the theory of "peak oil," the idea that world oil demand has already passed or is about to pass world supplies. But doesn't peak oil look something like this?
A central reason that oil supplies are not rising much is that major producers outside the OPEC cartel, like Russia, Mexico and Norway, are showing troubling signs of sluggishness. Unlike OPEC, whose explicit goal is to regulate the supply of oil to keep prices up, these countries are the free traders of the oil market, with every incentive to produce flat-out at a time of high prices.
The long 24-hour wait (since the Sixers lost) is over! The ups and downs of your Philly sports fan.
Been slow around here today. Memo to self: Write more about racy pictures of Miley Cyrus.
There's an old classic rock chestnut by the group Free that's been going through my head this morning, although the spelling's a bit off:
"All Wright now....baby, it's alllll Wright now..."
The U.S. media didn't pay a lot of attention to Hillary Clinton's threat to "obliterate" Iran last week, but other people did:
The 3rd quarter of last night's Sixers' game was the sports equivalent of driving past a cemetery on a sun-drenched spring day and remembering your mortality.
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