Credit where credit’s due: Sharron Angle held her own last night

You’re one of the richest men in the U.S. Senate. Now on behalf of Nevada taxpayers, I would like to know, we would like to know, how did you become so wealthy on a government payroll?
Sharron Angle • In one of many attacks she made against Nevada Senator Harry Reid last night. Let’s face it, while she didn’t necessarily win last night, she stood toe to toe with one of the country’s most powerful Senators. It’s a performance that makes Christine O’Donnell’s debate work seem laughable in comparison. While Reid was probably right to call some of Angle’s views “extreme,” the fact of the matter is she didn’t embarrass herself like many people might have expected given her press-evasiveness. source

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» Blindsided by the economy: In the wake of the huge economic problems the country is facing, just 23 percent of people are following the Afghan War closely, versus 43 percent of people following the economy. This despite the fact that nearly 100,000 troops are over there and the U.S. has spent hundreds of billions of dollars there.

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smart DC burger joint Rogue States catches onto the grilled-meat-on-a-bun trend currently taking over the city. We pass by this place every single day. (No smell, BTW.)
stupid Upstairs is a powerful law firm. The firm sues over the wafting smell of burger. A judge gets involved. Rogue States has to close because of this stupid crap. source

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I can’t help but feel I was responsible for stirring the thirst for fame inside of him that led to last year’s hoax. It’s something I have to live with, and sometimes it makes me feel like I want to climb into a box and hide.
AOL News contributor David Moye • Explaining how his dealings with Richard Heene may have contributed to the “Balloon Boy” incident a year ago this week. See, Moye worked as senior editor for a service called FlashNews, which provided odd, offbeat news to radio stations and newspaper columnists. And Heene, see, is a crackpot. So Moye covered him more than once. The first time, he referred to Heene as the “Bob Vila of Cardboard Boxes,” after Heene made a video for kids featuring a cardboard puppet named “Boxter.” Dude loves his boxes. Moye also did stories with Heene playing wacky storm-chaser in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. “After all,” he writes, “he was a crackpot and my audience — wacky morning disc jockeys — would eat this stuff up.” All of this, by the way, was before he got pseudo-famous on “Wife Swap.” Great work, David. source

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15 Oct 2010 11:27