How the mighty mouth has fallen

Faux News is reportedly taking Karl Rove off the air. Pretty amazing that he's too foamy-at-the-mouth even for them.

Or perhaps it was just that he got it wrong. Foamy they can handle...but not foamy and a bad prognosticator?

Either way, Karl is now going to have to start a second phoenix cycle.

Today I learned...

...that Philip K. Dick's middle name was "Kindred."

Huh.

Pandering to the public appetite for gore and grief

Since 911 calls are available to the press and public, we get to hear the worst (and sometimes, but more rarely, the best) of human nature.

Today, CNN has posted the 911 recording from the home where a Kansas City Chiefs football player shot and killed the mother of his child before, later, going to the Chiefs' locker room and killing himself.

I'm not going to play that video. The horror of the man's mother as she made the call about what her son was doing is not something that we should *want* to share. Instead, let me send her clean pity, untinged by hearing her anguished screams.

And CNN? Way too early. And what purpose is served by posting this?

House approves resolution to keep internet out of UN hands

The vote on the bill introduced to the House by Sens. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) was 397-0.

What the storm means...

...depends on who you ask. Hurricane Sandy was responsible for a a lot of damage, but I can't think of a scarier place to be in such a storm than in a tall ship at sea.

Right now, we're watching the story of the HMS Bounty sinking and rescue (recorded from the Weather Channel this evening)...and, sitting on the couch watching it with us is Doug Faunt, one of the survivors. Really? It doesn't get any more fascinating. He's having us stop it occasionally to point things out or give us more information.

And, of course, we get to watch him being interviewed on the actual show, too.

Wicked cool.