Right now I feel like I’ve been deceived in one of the worst possible ways. The ultra-far-left political action committee MoveOn.org sent me this video that encouraged me NOT to vote today. I upheld my end of the bargain but without the promised results.
Fool me once, MoveOn.org, shame on me — fool me twice, shame on you!
I’m so torn today about what to write about: the rollercoaster week on Wall Street, the new channel launched on Sirius Satellite Radio that plays nothing but AC/DC, or the fact that today is International Talk Like A Pirate Day. Then again, TLAPD is infinitely stupid and also has been covered in a mostly factual way on www.jeffcutler.com. And if I say any more about the AC/DC channel, the rest of this riveting article is in peril of not being read, as a majority of my three loyal readers rush off to find their Sirius radios or, if they don’t already have one, go buy one quick fast in a hurry. Not that I blame them – it’s “No bull, just pure Angus” but only for a limited time! So that leaves the economy.
This has truly been an amazing week on Wall Street, as we’ve watched major institutions fold like a cheap suit (although expensive suits fold just as easily, they just don’t wrinkle as much), witnessed billion- and trillion-dollar bailouts by the US government, and experienced near-record losses in the markets while managing to rebound and close the week almost where we started. With so much to discuss about the economy I’ve decided to talk about my new fundraising venture: Save the Brokers!
*Fundraising Letter Begins*
This is Ryan. Ryan’s worked on Wall Street for 3 years. He has a nice apartment on the Upper East Side, a part-time model for a part-time girlfriend, and season tickets to the Knicks. But Ryan doesn’t have a job. That’s because Ryan used to work for Lehman Brothers.
In honor of the first day of football (Thursday didn’t count cause it was just the Giants and Redskins) we’re having our first-ever www.chrislebrun.com poll. Vote on your favorite NFL theme music. If you need to be reminded, click the “Read the Rest of the Story” link below the poll to listen to all the songs. And of course, comments are always welcome.
Enjoy and LET’S GO PATRIOTS!
There’s been much talk in the media lately about the coverage of the 2008 election — particularly in terms of the coverage of the Republican nominee for Vice President, Alaska Governor, Sarah Palin. Many of the so-called “media elite” picked up on stories by bloggers about Palin and her family, including her husband and 17-year old daughter. Most of the accusations were completely false but the mainstream media felt justified in reporting the salacious rumors anyway, assuaging their guilty conscience by using the disclaimers “it’s being reported by some blogs . . .”
What’s next: using Wikipedia as a reliable source for my MBA program?
The closing ceremony of the Olympics was held last night, bringing to an end one of the most amazing demonstrations of athletic feats known to man (and woman). I’m not speaking about Michael Phelps and his record-breaking 8 gold medals during a single Olympiad or back-to-back gold medals for Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh or even the redemption of USA Basketball. Oh, and the athletes from the other countries did alright too.
I’m talking about the new Olympic sport — sex. News agency Reuters reported that the IOC and Beijing Olympic Committee planned on distributing 100,000 condoms to the Olympic athletes in the Olympic Village. This after the 70,000 distributed in Sydney in 2000 were not enough and an extra 20,000 had to be rushed in of the athletes; 130,000 were distributed in Athens four years ago.
Probably the most disturbing sentence in the Reuters article was this: “Chinese condom makers have jumped on the Olympics bandwagon.” If memory serves me correctly it wasn’t that long ago that Chinese manufacturers dominated the news cycle with headlines such as “US Recalls More China-made Products for Lead. . .”
Thanks, but no!
Watching TV today I saw the following PSA, which, until the very end I thought was talking against racism. There is lot of rhetoric about discrimination and how we can not allow it in our country. Then comes the kicker!
“Quite a few people in the world have seen my penis. So that’s kinda cool.”
This from Spencer Elden, the 17-year old who was featured on the 1991 cover of Nirvana’s Nevermind album. A friend of the album cover’s photographer, Elden’s father Rick got $200 bucks to throw Spencer in the pool. (And they say Miley Cyrus has a bad Dad). Five months after “posing” for the pic, Geffen Records sent Elden a platinum record and a teddy bear.
Despite his relative fame and being a 17-year old, Elden is pretty perceptive. Elden says kids today are too busy “playing Rock Band on Xbox, like, that’s not a real band! That’s the difference between the ’90s and kids nowadays; kids in the ’90s would actually go out and make a [real] band!”
Read the whole story from NPR’s All Things Considered.
Over the years, I’ve proven there is no real easy way to come back from an extended lapse from blogging. This time as I make my unceremonious return from the distractions of a real life, I do so in classic www.chrislebrun.com form.
Watch the new political campaign spoof from Jib Jab! They were even nice enough to put ME in the production. See if you can spot me!
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Now that the federal government is done debriefing me after my trip last weekend, let me take a minute to share my thoughts with you about some of my experiences in Canada, or “the apartment above the party” as Craig Ferguson depicted Canada at the White House Press Corps Dinner. He begged them to “come to the party Canada. They’re like ‘We weren’t invited.’ We’re like, ‘Mexico wasn’t invited and they came. Come to the party!’”
This wasn’t my first trip to Canada but each time I go I am struck by the thought that it’s almost like a whole other country up there. I came away with some questions and some observations but very few answers. Here’s what I came away with:
It’s easy to see how you might think the title of this blog could refer to the results of my regular trips to the gym (don’t worry, I’ve got a permit for these guns!) but I don’t need to toot my own horn. That said, it’s pretty cool how I can flex one peck at a time — although my left one seems bigger but I hear that phenomenon may be common.
No, this entry is about buying food in bulk. For the record my wife hates Sam’s Club. To be honest I just tune her out when she starts going off on the gluttony of America, blah, blah, blah. She admits Sam’s has good prices and we’ve shopped there about once a month (up until about 6 months ago when our membership ran out) but we limited our purchases there to the essentials: 90 trash bags for $17.37, 40-count Apple & Eve brand Sesame Street juice boxes for $8.62, and 40-count Trojan latex condoms for $9.57. Then again maybe she’s right about the evils of excess — I mean who needs that many trash bags.
