http://www.brendanloy.com/wp Brendan Loy's domain Tue, 20 Sep 2011 15:28:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you're seeing this post, it means you're in the wrong place! You may need to clear your browser's cache in order to properly reflect the new domain and subdomain information. Anyway, my new blog is located at theoneblog.brendanloy.com. NOTE: If you are looking for my hurricane coverage, that is now ... http://www.brendanloy.com/wp/2008/06/this-blog-has-moved-2.html G'nite, all. See you on the other side. http://www.brendanloy.com/wp/2008/06/signing-off.html Guestblogging is turned off, and I'll be shutting down comments in a few minutes, and redirecting this URL to the new blog shortly thereafter. Thanks for the memories, everybody. Oh, and don't be deceived by the title of this post. Much like The Return of the King, this blog will have more ... http://www.brendanloy.com/wp/2008/06/the-end.html Somehow, I've had this blog for over six years without ever posting this clip. Well, time to fix that omission while there's still time: http://www.brendanloy.com/wp/2008/06/apropos-of-nothing.html So, the far-right group American Family Association is one of apparently many right-wing groups that use auto-correct to replace potentially offensive (to them at least) words in articles posted to their news streams.  I don't even know if it's legal to take an AP article and auto-replace words like that. Well, ... http://www.brendanloy.com/wp/2008/06/homosexual-eases-into-100-final-at-olympic-trials.html Hmm... this is interesting:The presumptive GOP nominee tells voters in an afternoon Pickersville, Pennsylvania town hall that the state will pick the winner in November — and he will be behind until right before the polls close.McCain's point seems to be simply that he's the underdog, which is undoubtedly true. But, if ... http://www.brendanloy.com/wp/2008/06/mccain-predicts-bradley-effect.html Just a thought: it would be nice to see John McCain clarify his non-answer about Barack Obama's patriotism in the same sort of straightforward, no-nonsense, not-open-to-interpretation way that Obama responded today to Wesley Clark's comments questioning the value of McCain's military service. The John McCain of 2000 and 2004 would have ... http://www.brendanloy.com/wp/2008/06/period-full-stop.html In anticipation of the imminent end of this blog -- and redirection of its traffic to a new, weekly blog -- I figured I should give y'all a little more detail on what's happening. Although I've focused on the weekly blog in discussing this issue, I'm actually replacing "Irish Trojan in ... http://www.brendanloy.com/wp/2008/06/more-on-the-big-blog-move.html Remember Tom Buffenbarger, the machinists' union blowhard who unleashed a hilariously unhinged anti-Obama rant on Hillary Clinton's behalf during her post-Wisconsin-primary rally back in February? I'll refresh your memory:[During his speech introducing Clinton,] Buffenbarger derisively dismissed Obama as a mere "wunderkind," a "man in love with the microphone," and "a poet, ... http://www.brendanloy.com/wp/2008/06/somebody-get-this-guy-a-latte.html ...for all your hyperactively-excellent :} work on This incarnation of the ongoing Brendanblog; and in its Next Generation may you compile a tomorrow worthy of all the yesterdays (but less time-consuming :). Thank you too, for the honor of having been Included on your suspicious auspiscious roster of ... http://www.brendanloy.com/wp/2008/06/thank-you-brendan.html Brendan said that if you needed to post something best do it now, before it's too late... So I think, as guest blogs, we all need to make sure we get any and all picking on Brendan take care of and wrapped up before he shuts us all down for good. ... http://www.brendanloy.com/wp/2008/06/a-last-guest-blogging.html I've been working hard this weekend on the back-end tasks necessary to make the big blog switch happen Monday night, and I think I'll be able to do it on schedule. So, sometime after 7:30 PM EDT, this blog will disappear, and will be replaced with my weekly blog (and ... http://www.brendanloy.com/wp/2008/06/one-day-more.html I haven't really been paying any attention to the hype for WALL·E, the Disney/Pixar film that opened Friday, but it's getting absolutely rave reviews from critics -- a 96% "fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes! -- to the point where, for example, it made the Wall Street Journal's critic sound veritably ... http://www.brendanloy.com/wp/2008/06/they-like-wall%c2%b7e-they-really-like-wall%c2%b7e.html Uga VI, the mascot of the Georgia Bulldogs since 1999, has died. He will be buried alongside his predecessors, Uga I through V, in a vault inside the football stadium. And he will of course be replaced by Uga VII. I'm not a Georgia fan, obviously, but Uga (pronounced "uh-guh") is ... http://www.brendanloy.com/wp/2008/06/uga-is-dead-long-live-uga.html If you're a North Carolina resident, and you're offended by your own license plate because it begins with the letters "WTF," you can get it replaced for free. It seems that DMV officials "learned last year the common acronym stands for a vulgar phrase in e-mail and cell phone text messages." ... http://www.brendanloy.com/wp/2008/06/nc-says-no-to-wtf.html Clinton and Obama wore (nearly) matching outfits at their Unity event this afternoon: her pantsuit and his tie were both, according to Politico's color-spectrum analysis, powder blue. Powder blue, of course, used to be a UCLA school color, back when I was at USC. But the Bruins switched in 2003 to ... http://www.brendanloy.com/wp/2008/06/ugh-powder-blue.html Literally. Around midday today, the former Democratic rivals will make their first joint public appearance since she dropped out of the race -- and the event will be held in Unity, a tiny town in western New Hampshire where Obama and Clinton each received exactly 107 votes* in the January ... http://www.brendanloy.com/wp/2008/06/clinton-obama-join-together-in-unity.html The Supreme Court is expected to rule very shortly on, essentially, what the Second Amendment means, in the Washington, D.C. handgun ban case, D.C. vs. Heller. SCOTUSblog is liveblogging. UPDATE: By a 5-4 vote, with no plurality or concurrences -- i.e., the five justices in the majority all agreed on the ... http://www.brendanloy.com/wp/2008/06/individual-right-to-bear-arms-vindicated-still-no-right-to-arm-bears.html All right, I know I've been dragging my feet on this, but I have indeed decided -- as I alluded last Friday -- to try out the weekly blog format. My intention is to make the switch on Tuesday. (I figure July 1, the halfway point of the calendar year, ... http://www.brendanloy.com/wp/2008/06/help-me-name-my-new-blog.html Earlier today, I read this article by Bob Beckel making the strategic case for an Obama-Clinton ticket, and I found myself almost beginning to doubt the ferocity of my oft-stated belief that such a choice would be "wolf-face crazy." Then I read the little biographical blurb at the bottom: Bob Beckel ... http://www.brendanloy.com/wp/2008/06/politics-as-usual.html The Waterbury Republican-American evidently does not believe in God and Senator Dodd. Well, maybe the former, but certainly not the latter. :) In an editorial Monday, the Rep-Am's editorial board calls Dodd "Tammany Hall's senior senator" and scolds the national media -- as well as, in a subsequent editorial, the ... http://www.brendanloy.com/wp/2008/06/a-dodd-scandal-and-a-courant-catastrophe.html Ross Douthat has a good post about Iraq and the surge. http://www.brendanloy.com/wp/2008/06/on-the-surge.html The L.A. Times/Bloomberg poll finds the following national breakdown in a four-way race: Obama 48%, McCain 33%, Nader 4%, Barr 3%, Undecided 10%. Even if we assume that most of those 10% will eventually vote for McCain, in accordance with the Bradley Effect, Obama's still clearly winning. What's particularly intriguing is ... http://www.brendanloy.com/wp/2008/06/poll-shows-obama-way-ahead-nationally-barr-nader-hurt-mccain.html TNR's James Kirchick asks an intriguing question: "Will the Candidates Recognize Morgan Tsvangirai as President of Zimbabwe?"Morgan Tsvangirai, the leader of the Movement for Democratic Change, is the legitimately elected president of Zimbabwe. Or at least he should be. He won that country's presidential election (and his party won its parliamentary election) on March ... http://www.brendanloy.com/wp/2008/06/what-about-zimbabwe.html "John McCain and the Republicans will lose if this campaign is about issues. They only mismanaged the economy and mismanaged the hurricane and mismanaged the budget and mismanaged the war and mismanaged the hunt for Osama bin Laden and mismanaged the world." --John Brummett, Arkansas News Bureau. (Hat tip: Ben ... http://www.brendanloy.com/wp/2008/06/mismanaging-the-world.html