Eli Hodapp
“ In her first week at market, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi sold just 2,737 copies of her book KNOW YOUR POWER, according to NIELSEN BOOKSCAN.
Drudge Report
My brain just exploded.
I’m not sure what Coldplay was thinking with this video. All they had to do was take the iTunes commercial and make it longer.
The whole “Add a wacky old painting video filter!” thing isn’t doing it for me.
“ Jacksonville police say Reginald Peterson needs to learn that 911 is not the appropriate place to complain that Subway left the sauce off a spicy Italian sandwich.
AP
Mr. Rogers is being taken off the air.
According to Paste Magazine, Mr. Rogers is being cut from weekday syndication and instead is only going to be aired once a week or maybe even not at all. As someone who grew up watching Mr. Rogers, and seeing the sheer crap that is labeled as kids’ television programming these days this is pretty amazing to me.
Here are some things you might not know about Mr. Rogers, he wasn’t just an awesome neighbor, he was so much more.
In 1969 the government was on a crash course to cutting public television funding. Fred Rogers went to Washington, and in less than six minutes managed to not only reverse the budget slash, but invoked a budget increase from $9 to $22 million.
Mr. Rogers also was a big player in the fight to allow VCR’s to record TV shows at home. The heated debate was settled by Fred Rogers arguing that recording a program like Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood would allow parents and children to sit down and watch his show as a family instead of using the TV as a babysitter.
Fred Rogers got in to TV because he hated TV and wanted to change it. He was the same on-camera as he was off-camera. He even had his car stolen once, and the resulting police report made the news. Two days later his car was in the exact spot it was stolen from with a letter of apology. In 1997 he accepted the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Emmy Awards and sadly died of stomach cancer six years later.
Anyway if you’re at all interested in saving Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood, check this site out.
China readies artillery to avert rain at Olympics, but some think idea's all wet.
This whole China controlling the weather thing seems a little too much like the Command and Conquer video game series for my tastes.
“ Oil prices plunged to a three-month low Monday, briefly tumbling below $120 a barrel in another huge sell-off after Tropical Storm Edouard seemed less likely to disrupt oil and natural gas output in the Gulf of Mexico.
AP
Take it or leave it, losers!
