I Hate the Word ‘Maverick’
First John McCain is a maverick and then every Republican uses it. Now, Sarah Palin is a maverick and it is a maverick decision and even Maverick from Top Gun would say it is maverick because it is indeed maverick. Ain't it Goose?
I also love how, when asked, McCain supporters are saying that Palin is indeed ready to be Commander in Chief should it come to that. Really? Then why wasn't she running earlier this year?
Apparently Palin is thinking in line with McCain, but the pro-life argument is all I am hearing about. How about this quote from 2007:
"I've been so focused on state government, I haven't really focused much on the war in Iraq," she said. "I heard on the news about the new deployments, and while I support our president, Condoleezza Rice and the administration, I want to know that we have an exit plan in place; I want assurances that we are doing all we can to keep our troops safe."
Uh oh, an exit plan? I hope that doesn't mean timelines because as we learned in the battle between Mitt and John the word timelines is the buzz word that gets McCain all riled up.
I am not saying anything negative about Palin or McCain here, I am just tired of party supporters being such lap dogs and NEVER giving their actual opinion.
I can already hear the Democratic response saying how it is a risky move and do we want a 72-year-old man making more risky moves in the White House? The age and inexperience crap needs to stop. However, before we stop that, let's stop using the word "maverick".
Thanks.
Batman vs. Superman
I was screwing around while I wrote an article called "Isn't It Too Early for a Superman Restart?" and made a Superman poster based on the Dark Knight poster. Here was the resulting comparison. I personally think I did a pretty damn good job considering I have zero graphics design training. You can click it for a slightly larger version and here for the Superman poster alone.
The Moon Over Mt. Rainier
The two shots in this post were taken from my balcony tonight around 8 PM PST. I don't exactly have a great digital camera, but I think they came out rather well.
This is One Way to Do Things… I Guess
This is one way to get the competitive juices flowing as Spain's Olympic basketball teams have risked upsetting their Chinese hosts by posing for a pre-Games advert making slit-eyed gestures. The advert for a courier company, which is an official sponsor of the Spanish Basketball Federation, occupied a full page in the sports daily Marca, the country's best-selling newspaper. [from The Guardian]
Without Tiger Golf Doesn’t Matter
I cannot believe today is the final round of the PGA Championship and I didn't know about it. To add to that I cannot believe almost a month ago was the British Open and I didn't even bother to look who had won. Belated congrats Padraig. You see, I pay attention to every golf major every year, but it appears the absence of Tiger leaves me completely uninterested. I mean, does a golf tournament really matter if the best player in the world isn't even competing?
Now, I liked golf before Tiger and I will like golf after Tiger, but in this era of Tiger Woods it doesn't really count if he is on the sidelines in my opinion. Of course, it "counts", but I would have to put an asterick next to it if I won as good as I would feel.
I mean, how will Sergio Garcia feel if he finally manages to win a major, but his nemesis wasn't even playing?
Olympics Off to Great Start with Murder/Suicide
UPDATE: It turns out this tragedy involved Todd Bachman, the father-in-law of a U.S. Olympic coach, who was killed and his wife, Barbara, suffered life-threatening injuries in the knife attack, the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) said. The victims are the parents of 2004 volleyball Olympian Elisabeth "Wiz" Bachman McCutcheon, who is married to men's volleyball coach Hugh McCutcheon.
It's the first day of the Olympics and we already have an American tourist murdered! As it turns out, a relative of an Olympic U.S. men's volleyball coach was murdered in an attack that left two others injured at the Drum Tower, a popular tourist site in the old city. The 47-year-old assailant promptly threw himself off the Drum Tower's second story and killed himself, according to the official Xinhua news agency.
There is no telling if the coach in question was head coach Hugh McCutcheon or the assistant coach Ronald Larsen, or any of the other coaches traveling with the team.
There is an AP video after the jump.