Not My Mother's Blog

One of the things that I’m finding hardest to stomach these days is the new fad of blaming the current economic crisis on those fools who dared to dream that the American Dream might include them. The accepted response to “who is most at fault for the failure of the economy?” is ‘all those people [...]

From the New York Times this morning: The vice presidential debate will have a different format than the presidential debate. While the presidential debates will allow McCain and Obama to engage in back and forth dialog, Palin and Biden will answer questions given them but not address each other. The reason? McCain advisers said they [...]

that’s what this rag calls itself. What it really looks like is a shill site that panders to the gullibility and credulity of people in debt to rake up fat affiliate profits from barely legal advertisers. Case in point – the banner ad on every page is for Cleansepatch, which claims to “effectively and immediately [...]

Lately, I’ve found a new addiction – www.mylot.com. I don’t recommend it to anyone for much of anything – it’s the domain of people who think they can get rich clicking on ads on various affiliate ad websites (don’t EVEN get me started on THOSE). This particular one pays people a few fractions of a [...]

As a web content writer, one of the things that I try to keep up with is the search terms people use when looking for something on the internet. It’s pretty important when you’re publishing web content because when you know the words that people enter into that little search box, you can try to [...]

Not a lot to say about this other than that the idea totally tickles me: Even though Facebook, MySpace and other social-networking sites that inspired A-Space are predominately the domain of young people, there apparently is no such generational divide on A-Space. “We have found that participation in A Space crosses every conceivable age line [...]

I’ve found it interesting that so many commentators use Palin’s daughter’s pregnancy as a “McCain should have vetted her better” talking point. As far as I can see, it’s actually a major plus for the campaign in a lot of ways. They needed someone to counterbalance McCain’s perceived softness on reproductive issues – and Palin [...]

The current issue of Vogue India is causing quite a stir. Approaching their one year anniversary, the publication made waves this month by doing a sixteen page spread of Fendi, Alexander McQueen, Burberry, and Birkin accessories all modeled by rural Indian villager who will not ever make in their lives the cost of some of [...]

I’m a shlump when it comes to watching television – I tend not to watch it except for the popcorn stuff – you know, junk food for the brain. So I’ve managed to miss Campbell Brown before this morning when ran into her Monday night intervew with Tucker Bounds on CNN. Just in case you [...]

  Diddy Ridiculousness Take 1 I really could JUST post the video and I think that most people would agree with me and want to punch this fool upside his head. HOWEVER, it gets better. Roll tape:   Diddy Blog #16 – “John McCain Is Buggin The F%^k Out’”! Diddy Ridiculousness Take 2   Attention [...]

Earlier, Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., told FOX News: “Many of us speaking on the floor today, including the Republican leadership, believe the president of the United States should call this congress back into session immediately under Article II of the Constitution, and demand that this Congress deal with the issue of energy independence.” Energy independence? [...]