{"id":433,"date":"2007-08-10T09:33:24","date_gmt":"2007-08-10T13:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/08\/10\/friday-notes-reviewing-the-basics\/"},"modified":"2007-08-10T09:55:45","modified_gmt":"2007-08-10T13:55:45","slug":"friday-notes-reviewing-the-basics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/08\/10\/friday-notes-reviewing-the-basics\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Notes: Reviewing the Basics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Josh Marshall asks an obvious question<\/a> about the validity of a bill that was signed by the President, but not passed by the House or Senate. Is there really a question here? And if so – was I’m Just a Bill on Capitol Hill<\/a> all a pack of lies?<\/p>\n

Speaking of having to concern ourselves with things that ought not to have occurred in the first place, you’ve probably heard about the problem<\/a> with Pearl Jam’s webcast performance this past Sunday. One of AT&T’s webcast editors apparently cut out parts of the performance that were critical of Bush (a few lines, it seems). AT&T is blaming an overzealous editor, and is claiming no nefarious intentions. Which I’m perfectly willing to believe. But it still leaves me asking: what kind of culture do we have where it makes sense to you – an editor covering a Lollapalooza concert, for godsake – to dump a few mildly critical lines about the President? Are you that afraid? That bitter? It makes no sense to me.<\/p>\n

And in the category of things that make no sense, you might have seen the amusing video of CNBC financial show host Jim Cramer’s on-air meltdown<\/a>. Actually, it was only amusing if you didn’t listen to the details of what he was going on about. If you actually listened to him, it was really sort of nauseating. Short version: my free-market titans got too greedy trying to make money off of loans that never should have been made, so now we need the Fed to bail us out. Funny how that works, no? And even funnier is this annotated video<\/a> of his meltdown, which details the sheer ridiculousness of it all.<\/p>\n

~<\/p>\n

And the Discovery Channel cycling team is dead<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Despite their having the most recent Tour de France winner, 8 TdF wins, and a solid roster of riders, they couldn’t come up with a sponsor. \u00c2\u00a0 Huh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Josh Marshall asks an obvious question about the validity of a bill that was signed by the President, but not passed by the House or Senate. Is there really a question here? And if so – was I’m Just a Bill on Capitol Hill all a pack of lies? Speaking of having to concern ourselves […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,7,4,8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-content-distribution","category-law","category-politics","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t