Volume 2 Issue 138
October 1, 2003
Do Not Call
The telemarketers go away, Nazi Marching Bands in Texas, and Quentin likes the bar
Took me a while to realize what was different about this morning. I mean, it was just like most unemployed mornings, arising later than most folk, checking the news and email, reading the paper and having breakfast, browsing the internet...but there was something missing. Then it hit me...despite attempts to derail it, the National Do-Not-Call list took effect this morning! Instead of dozens of telemarketing calls filling my day, the phone instead hasn't rung once! Who knows if this is actually the list working, or just a down period for the computer dialers, but if this is the result of the list's proponents efforts, then fantastic!
Look Who's Running for President: As we await the 3rd Quarter results, Dean continues to impress those who are willing to be impressed -
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25308-2003Sep30.html
But Gephardt's accusations about Medicare are causing him some problems -
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/01/politics/campaigns/01DEAN. html?hp=&pagewanted=all&position
Look Who's Running for President 2: Dean and Clark's surge to the top of the polls have left some of the others of the "Ten of Us" rethinking their strategy -
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/bw-elect/2003/sep/30/093001714.html
Bad John Edwards Photo of the Day:
John! Don't drop the kid!
Stuck in Traffic: The annual Texas Transportation Institute Study came out yesterday, surprising no one with the fact that our lack of investment in infrastructure has resulted in more gridlock. Of course, every paper in the nation ran a story on it -
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22448-2003Sep30.html
http://www.courierpostonline.com/news/southjersey/m100103g.h tm
Hope the Movie isn't this bad: Director Quentin Tarantino appeared on Leno drunk yesterday, bringing back many memories of the ol' open bar at the late night shows -
http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/TV/10/01/tv.leno.tarantino.a p/index.html
Idiotic Marching Bands: A Marching Band in Texas is reconsidering it's idea to use a Nazi flag during it's halftime show. Because, yeah, that might not get received well in Texas or something. Oh yeah, and it was on Rosh Hashanah too -
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-band-nazi-flag,0,5422665.story?coll=sns-ap-nation-headlines
http://www.theparisnews.com/story.lasso?wcd=8824
Other Idiotic Things involving Football: EPSN is under fire after Rush Limbaugh said that Donovan McNabb was only considered good as a quarterback because he was black. Great idea there guys, brining Limbaugh on the show. I hear David Duke is a basketball fan -
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2003/football/nfl/09/30/bc. fbn.mcnabb.limbaugh.ap/index.html?cnn=yes
