It’s been a busy few days. I got married over the weekend, and even though I’m exhausted, it’s a happy kind of exhausted from the months of planning and two great, great, joyful days of celebrating with good friends and wonderful family. Thanks to everybody who showed up from all over the country—nay, the world. We both wished we had more time to spend with all of you, but your presence made our celebration extremely special.

I’ll be gone during the middle of this week, but I’ve got a day here to catch up on the haps, so here’s more stuff you shoud be reading instead of this lousy blog…

• Chris Matthews demolishes Michelle Malkin. You can see the video of the debacle at Oliver Willis site, but do yourself a favor and get there through The Poor Man, who’s back and feeling like his old self these days.

• This is why I’m so disgusted by the Olympics that I could spit: Via Slashdot, MSNBC is reporting on the IOC’s Brand Protection Team whose job is to cleanse all Olympic venues – both on- and off-camera – from the presence of any logos or products from companies who haven’t ponied up. Geezus. Just how narcissistic are these companies? I mean, how valuable do you think your logo really is? And how fragile is your corporate ego if you need a jackbooted goon squad to make audience members turn their shirts inside out on the off chance that a camera might linger over them for a couple of seconds? The Olympics are less a sporting event these days than a marketing event. No wonder people are so turned off by them. I feel bad for the athletes who have put their lives on the line for years to get here, only to be used as organic billboards and unwitting corporate shills. Screw the Olympics. Screw the Olympics and screw the sponsors.

• Thank god Fafblog understands.

• Via Boing Boing, here’s an excellent post on Apple iTunes and Digital Rights Management (DRM). Don’t do DRM. Just don’t do it. You can live without it.

• Read this from Atrios. Why is it that any right-leaning half-wit with a bankroll and a snide remark is given a megaphone, while left-leaners are shouted down if they make the meekest protest against injustice?

• Wow. Via Buzz Machine, see this Ed Cone piece, Don’t talk while I’m interrupting. It would be funny if it weren’t true.

• Via Engadget, Best Buy is busted doing bad stuff. Couldn’t happen to a nicer company.

• It’s hysterical to me that the Swift Boat Veterans are forcing fellow Republicans into defending John Kerry’s honor.

• Great quote: John Lord Morley
  “You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.” [Motivational Quotes of the Day]

• Does t seem right to you that 6,000,000 people just lost their overtime pay? How is it that what they have now is better than what they had before?

• Why do people take Bush seriously? Why do people like Larry King continue to ask Bush questions as if he were a serious-minded person with a real grasp of facts and policy. Hasn’t he demonstrated over and over again that he pays no mind to details?

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Monday, August 23rd, 2004 @ 1:49 pm Nothings
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