Archive for August, 2008
Obama’s Acceptance Speech, Part 2: In High Def TV
Alright, as promised, I’ve finally had a gander at the Obama acceptance speech “as seen on TV”. This actually turned out to be an interesting experiment, thank you oh goddess that is named serendipity. Just like those citizens that witnessed the historic 1959 Kennedy / Nixon debates, the medium was everything for me. Having simply listened [...]
10 Reasons Why Palin Will Win And Lose The Election For McCain
John McCain has chosen a running mate, and done so in typical John McCain fashion. Congratulations to Alaska’s governor, Sarah Palin on your selection. Already the media is raising its collective eyebrows at this pick. I’ve seen the choice described as a “Hail Mary“. I’ve seen it described as a “Slam Dunk”. I suppose opinions [...]
Dork Take On Obama’s Nomination Acceptance Speech
UPDATE: If you have arrived here looking for a critique of Obama’s acceptance speech for the Presidency of the United States, please click through to this article. The article below is a critique of his acceptance of the nomination for the Democratic party.
I’ll follow up with more on this later today, as it’s late and [...]
Obama’s Historical Night
Today is the 45th Anniversary of Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Junior’s “I Have a Dream” speech (video). A major political party, for the first time in the history of this country, has nominated a black candidate for the office of President of the United States. With this backdrop, Barak Obama takes the stage to [...]
On Many Things
As I trolled through delicious/popular, digg, reddit, and fark, I found it difficult to cull a heuristic for a single topic. Deciding that a little ADD is good for the soul, I figured what the hell, just write on many topics. Thus this post was born. If this works for me, I may just make [...]
Making Hay Out of Multiple Homes
The left wing media and the Democratic Party are making a lot of noise about John McCain not knowing how many homes he owns. I’ve seen a lot of disingenuous smears (many from the Republican party and the right wing media) and this certainly amongst the worst of them. Despite the fact that you are scoring some [...]
15 Biden Quotes - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Contrary to my wishes, Barak Obama didn’t swing for the fences with his VP pick. In my estimation though, Biden was the best of the bland, boring crowd. Despite having a strong interest in politics, I confess I don’t know a whole hell of a lot about Joe Biden. I prefer to let people do [...]
Driving Traffic To Your Pathetic Blog
As I’m not particularly shy about, one my goals for Somedork is to gain some semblance of an audience and maybe some year, make some smidgen of profit off of doing what I love to do, which is write.
Obviously, I have my work cut out for me.
Believe it or not, it has taken some work [...]
Last Minute Veep Musings
I can’t resist. Those that are bored to tears by politics (and you’re better people than me) just ignore this post. Those that can’t help themselves, read on. A few more ideas concerning Obama’s pending VP announcement…
The Media Is Straight Up Ridiculous
Pundits are literally hanging on every word to try and gain [...]
Calm Before The Political Storm
The political arena is about to kick into high gear, starting next week. Here are some thoughts from the Dork before the race begins in earnest…
Obama Campaign Doing Dirty Tricks (gasp):
Well, despite their rhetoric to the contrary, the Obama campaign is not above doing some political dirty tricks themselves. Yesterday, they openly wondered if John [...]
