A Cry for Help

I could pick on the fact that the Republican Convention is featuring speakers who disagree with a major plank or two of the official GOP platform (cartoons! one two three and this one in today’s ProJo), but you can get that anywhere. Plus I like Big Tents. Instead, let’s look at the one-man contradiction, Virginia [...]

Does anyone else find it weird that Ron Silver, who played Jed Barlett’s campaign advisor on West Wing a while back, is up on stage at the Republican National Convention giving a rousing speech? Crazy.

So Em and I went to Fenway last Friday night, and it was awesome. When we bought those tickets in February we had no way of knowing that the Sox would be on their hottest streak of the season, but they were. The game was good, we won 5-3; the seats were good, with lots [...]

Some of these make me think people just pick any 6-letter word so they can have a whole word on their license plate…
JUNGLE
DANISH
PYRMID
WATERS
KRAZEE
HRYPTR
MAHALO
FRESCO
SCRIBE
HAYJUD
PUREOX
LET GO
SHREK
GOLDEN
SERNTY
COOLIT
PLATNM
JULY29
WENT69
SEEGUL
EXPLOR
KIDSDR
BTRFLY
LONDON
WTRCAN
ALEGRO
MARGIN
ELITE1
Out of Staters:
WOLWO (on a Volvo from MA)
RUBBISH (PA)
CAPTIV8 (NC)

Em and I are off to see tonight’s Sox-Tigers game at Fenway. Keep an eye out for us, we’ll be in the farthest left field section, right before the green monster. Go Sox!

Alright folks, tomorrow is the big day. The RNC. Technically the convention doesn’t start until monday, but tomorrow is the day that all the people in my tax bracket (I’m rich, i work in TV you know) begin to trickle into the city. We’ve already had some minor protesting begin as well. [...]

Ladies and gents, the laziest form of blogging: I wrote the following in an email to a friend who asked whether or not I caught Kerry last night on the Daily Show. Instead of writing a post about it, I’m just going to copy and paste the email…
“Of course I watched the D-Show! It was [...]

… and four-dimensional multiple orgasms with beautiful, creative, equally satisfied partners, morning, noon and night. It’s all here in this column about what drives the white male Republican electorate. Take a few minutes to read it. Draw your own conclusions, of course, but I think it’s a compelling case.

I just spent about an hour writing and rewriting, crumpling the virtual notepad pages, a post about all sorts of loosely connected thing. I’m supposed to painting the house today, so I’m pretty addle-brained. One idea taking shape was about how we implicitly trust facts that are reported to us by people who agree with [...]

(There is no curse, except the curse of people always bring up the curse. That said…)
The Sox just won their sixth game in a row, and 10th of the last 12. After falling 11 games behind the Yankees and losing their wild card lead, the Red Hot Red Sox are back on top by a [...]

Lately, the most frequent searches leading people to A Cry for Help have been about the Cranston mayoral race, and almost 3-1 looking for info on Garry Reilly. I don’t have any dirt on him, unfortunately, and anyway Steve Laffey will probably be glad to tell you all about Mr. Reilly. I’m sure we’ll be [...]

From Arianna Huffington’s Fanatics and Fools (I added the links):
Dr. Norman Doidge, professor of psychiatry at the University of Toronto,has identified among the tell-tale symptoms of fanatics: an intolerance of dissent, a doctrine that is riddled with contradictions, the belief that one’s cause has been blessed or even commanded by God, and the use of [...]