Surprise Surprise
November 20th, 2007If you have any doubts that Capitalism can do good things for the world, check out Free Rice. It’s easily the coolest thing anyone’s sent me over the Internet in a long time. Know what the best part of that is? It’s all over Facebook, MySpace and, I’m sure, email. Blogs have got the scoop (of rice) and so do news channels. I’m happy to see it and I hope that all parties involved keep to their promises.
You know, here on the blog — I try not to make various posts a day. Sometimes, but not often, just because it would be extra time and I am, after all, a full-time College student with a newspaper to copy edit and opinion-write for, friends to meet and make and enjoy, love interests to pursue and a sport to follow, religiously. So sometimes, I segue from one topic to another perfectly but cheesily, and I think that’s what we’re going to do now except that I’ve never felt the need to explain the cheese before. But anyway: “promises.” I hope that “the corporates” keep their promises to match my vocabulary and yours, Dear Reader, and I also hope that “the Corporate” keeps his promise to John Kerry.
Sen. John Kerry is fighting back against the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. Some observers might say that this is about four year[sic] too late, but so it goes.
Kerry, the Massachusetts Democrat, has accepted the challenge of wealthy oil man T. Boone Pickens, who provided cash to the Swifties four years ago for ads that had the effect of torpedoes on Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign. The ads, as you’ll recall, questioned the circumstances surrounding the wounds Kerry received during his service in the Vietnam War and other aspects of Kerry’s biography.
In Kerry’s press release, he mentions that Pickens was speaking before the American Spectator and that was the second thing about this story that struck me. The first was that, hey, John Kerry’s fighting back three years too late! The second: “The American Spectator is still in business and throws events considered ‘major Washington dinner[s]’”? Surprises everyday. (If you’ve never heard of the Spectator, they spent the 1990s smearing Clinton, rightly and wrongly, and they were the ones who set Paula Jones in motion which expanded Whitewater and led to Impeachment. It all goes back to David Brock who eventually renounced the Spectator and now they aren’t what they used to be but I guess someone still buys their magazine…although it is possible that their rich owner simply puts it out there for his own amusement, just because.)