Just plain funny

100 days of negativity

It's not news to me that Fox News doesn't like Obama, but the video below really shocked me. Media Matters collected 100 days of Fox News reporting on Obama, and it's not exactly what one could call "Fair and Balanced"

The first time I saw Keith Olberman a few years ago, he was raging about something Bush had done (I can't remember what). Olberman was bold and eloquent, and not only did he confirm what I felt about the issue, he gave me a whole bunch of other stuff to be mad about. When I first saw Olberman, I thought he was great. But I quickly realized that he raged about EVERYTHING Bush and the Republicans did - he is the left's equivalent of Rush Limbaugh; loud, obnoxious, and very biased.

Olberman basically spent 8 years trying to convince everyone that Bush was an evil fascist who wanted to destroy American Democracy, and now Fox News is trying convince people the same about Obama. I'm sure people who watch Fox news would say the other networks have a liberal bias, and that just may be true. But I think the clip below is extreme. With some of the stuff they say, it's no wonder you've got crazy nuts out there comparing Obama to Hitler (well no, actually I still don't understand that one).

Anyway, I think I'm sticking to the internets as my primary source of news.

The non-kosher flu

Looks like some people are really upset about this Swine Flu thing.

I'll bet the Hindus were just beside themselves during the Mad Cow Disease scare.

Thinking I'd like to start blogging again

I'll start slow and easy, with a link to truly fascinating images of North Korea

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/04/peering_into_north_korea.html


And I wonder how is it that boston.com has so many of these amazing photo-series.

It's been a while

I can't really say why I haven't posted in a while, it isn't for a lack of exciting things happening in my life. I guess once the cancer was gone, and Obama was elected, I no longer had a sense of urgency. As I think about it, I realize I have mostly used this blog as a kind of cathartic tool - I was worried about the cancer, and after that, I was worried about the election, and writing about these things helped.

But, when we got the big exciting news in November, the news that Mathilde was pregnant, a lot of people couldn't understand that I didn't post it here immediately. I think by now, most of you know Mathilde is pregnant - for those of you who don't, well, Mathilde is pregnant :-) The baby is due June 6th.

In a post many months ago, I explained how at the end of last summer (2007) we decided we wanted to have a third baby. We tried for a short time, but soon discovered that instead of Mathilde being pregnant, I had cancer. We knew at that point, that with the effects of chemo, we'd probably never have another baby. We didn't completely give up hope. In fact, before I started chemo, I made an embarrassing and somewhat pathetic visit to a "fertility clinic" (Incidentally, I am still wondering what kind of jerk steals the magazines from the box of magazines at a fertility clinic, leaving nothing but a crumpled picture of fat guy sunbathing in g-string).

Despite the little bit of me frozen away in a cup somewhere, we resigned ourselves to the knowledge that we probably wouldn't have another child. For Emily and Anna, this was the most devastating part of my illness. They thought it was simply UNFAIR.

Anyway, it turns out that life isn't so unfair after all. When this sumer turned to fall, we had begun to the put the the cancer behind us, and started to look forward. We decided to try again for a child, aware that probably nothing would become of it. Well, to make a short story shorter, we essentially had the golfing equivalent of a hole-in-one - which surprised the hell out of us! And thrilled us to know end. I think telling the girls was the most fun of all.

For some reason, I didn't really want to write about it here at first. In the beginning, I was actually pretty nervous. I was nervous in the beginning of the last two pregnancies too, but I think the fact that I just came off 6 months of cancer treatment escalated my fears. We have been to two scannings now, though, and the baby is doing great so my fears have been put to rest, and all I have left is excitement.

We were at the second scanning yesterday, and it was SO much fun. Emily and Anna came along to see their new sibling and to hopefully find out if it is a boy our a girl. They weren't disappointed.

Below is a video of the scanning. If you move your mouse away after pushing play, the video controls will disappear so you can see the subtitles.


Baby makes five from Kevin on Vimeo.

Still healthy

I had my second 3 month checkup today and was given a clean bill of health again. That was nice. I didn't get a CAT scan this time, but will get one in three months. I'm also going to get a follow up lung test. I mentioned that I didn't think my breathing was back to 100%, so the doctor thought it would be a good idea to do an after treatment lung test. I have fond memories of the last one, so that is fine by me.

100%

Zefrank does it again. from 52 to 48 | 48 to 52 with love

Wow

I don't believe in destiny, but as I watched this speech, I had the overwhelming feeling that I was witnessing it.

Just when you thought things had changed...

I woke up to this bit of news:
Black Man Given Nation's Worst Job

"The job comes with such intense scrutiny and so certain a guarantee of failure that only one other person even bothered applying for it. Said scholar and activist Mark L. Denton, 'It just goes to show you that, in this country, a black man still can't catch a break.'"

My final endorsement link (I think)

A(nother) Conservative for Obama

Wick Allison former publisher of the National Review:

"Barack Obama is not my ideal candidate for president. (In fact, I made the maximum donation to John McCain during the primaries, when there was still hope he might come to his senses.) But I now see that Obama is almost the ideal candidate for this moment in American history. I disagree with him on many issues. But those don’t matter as much as what Obama offers, which is a deeply conservative view of the world. Nobody can read Obama’s books (which, it is worth noting, he wrote himself) or listen to him speak without realizing that this is a thoughtful, pragmatic, and prudent man. It gives me comfort just to think that after eight years of George W. Bush we will have a president who has actually read the Federalist Papers."

So this is what everyone is afraid of

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

Seems like a pretty smart guy

An unlikely Obama supporter

To inspire

Finger pointing

I have seen quite a few articles about how if McCain looses there is going to be a lot of scapegoating and finger pointing within his campaign. What I have been wondering is when are the Republicans going to start to point fingers at Bush - there just have to be a lot of Republicans who are furious with Bush and what he has done.

This is the first article I have seen where that anger is starting to come to the surface in detailed accusations: Top GOP-ers: It’s Bush and Rove’s fault

I'll bet its not the last.

Here it is

An extremely well written and "wholehearted" endorsement for Obama.
The Economist

Just to show I can

Here is a video critical of Obama, and it's hard to deny it is true.


(If video doesn't load, you can see it here)

It's interesting how when the opponent does something "wrong" we are up in arms, and when our own candidate does it we cringe and think to ourselves, well, the ends justifies the means. Politics is probably a lot like having kids. It has become so emotional, that we don't really see anything objectively. We can acknowledge that it is wrong, but it doesn't have nearly the same impact on us as it would if the opponent did it. (ie Obama's support of ACORN is scary and bad while McCain's support of ACORN is okay. (I had a much longer list of comparisons but decided to keep it at one :-)))

I certainly don't think the video above is reason to not vote for Obama, but I post it because I think it is important to acknowledge that neither candidate is perfect.

Borat had me laughing out loud

I liked this

It's political, but touching.