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| Friday, July 16, 2004 |
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Authority at work 
| | Hal Crowther has long been my favorite columnist, period. His prose, and his convictions, are both so strong that to read him nearly always stirs my blood — and not always with agreement. Here he is, in With Trembling Fingers: |
| | This isn't your conventional election, the usual dim-witted, media-managed Mister America contest where candidates vie for charm and style points and hire image coaches to help them act more confident and presidential. This is a referendum on what is arguably the most dismal performance by any incumbent president — and inarguably the biggest mistake. This is a referendum on George W. Bush, arguably the worst thing that has happened to the United States of America since the invention of the cathode ray tube. |
Dead flack slack
| | Inspired by a rant by Roland, PR is Dead is Adriana's call for company employees to make up for the DFS (see headline). |
Back, sort of
| | It wasn't the travel story from hell (there are real ones), but it wasn't fun, and it isn't over. |
| | I'm in the Bay Area now, crashing for the night at a friend's house, grabbing some free 'Fi from a neighbor's hot spot. (Empirical observation: Basic Netgear access points, on the whole, have the best range. This one has a signal strength of three bars out of four — S/N of 40 on the 'stumbler — and it's in somebody else's house, at least 70 feet from here.) |
| | I'd plan to get up in the morning and drive the 350 miles to Santa Barbara. |
| | I had planned to make the drive tonight (well, last night, this being 12:16am as I write this), but I haven't slept in more than 24 hours, so it seemed like the smarter thing to get some rest and a shower. |
| | Hope I can catch up on stuff in the afternoon after I get back. I'm downloading 1,417 mails right now (mostly spam, of course). |
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