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• Clearing the Browser Tabs – Defending Israel Sunday Edition
• The Delivery Presents – Panic at the Podcast
• Clearing the Browser Tabs – Cain Train Saturday Edition

Clearing the Browser Tabs – Defending Israel Sunday Edition Posted: 22 May 2011 03:10 AM PDT The biggest story of this week, from where I sit, was Barack Obama’s astonishing speech on Israel and the Middle East and the equally-astonishing history lecture he received from Benjamin Netanyahu in response. I’m fairly sure that President Obama’s knowledge of the history of Israel is about as strong as that of the average dyed in the wool progressive. That is to say, it’s long on bogus stories of Israeli brutality and short on real history (to that, I highly recommend this longish article that sums up the matter of Israel’s borders from 1920 to today). I don’t like that the Prime Minister of Israel schooled the President of the United States on matters of history, but I like even less that he felt it so necessary. And now, links! I’ve the distinct feeling that we’ll hear a whole lot less from the MSM about Track Palin than we have about Bristol. How good an education could you buy for $23,000 a year? Put your kid in a New Jersey public school and find out. Michael Steele will join the Chez Whitey progressive A-Team at MS-NBC as a guest political analyst. I can’t wait to hear what he thinks of Herman Cain. I do feel bad for the folks who were duped by Harold Camping’s heresy. Old Line elephant has about the best response to the non-Rapture I’ve seen today. Anyone want to give Moe Lane a little iPad help?

The Delivery Presents – Panic at the Podcast Posted: 21 May 2011 04:35 PM PDT What happens when your Super Mega Producer e-mails you a few hours before the show to tell you that he has no internet connection? Why, you wrangle a Super Mega Fill-In Producer and carry on with Episode 94! Many thanks to Joe Guzman who jumped into the fray and did a great job. Did I mention that Joe does a couple podcasts of his own? They’re NSFW, but if that doesn’t fash you, check them out. Joe also did a bit of a guest-turn in the second half, when I started playing God of All Sports and named a few things I’d remove from the Earth. One of the more interesting things I’ve learned with The Delivery is that I get a bigger reaction when I talk about sports than I do when I discuss politics. Sports is a touchstone in a way that Republican vs. Democrat just isn’t. Why? I can’t even begin to tell you. That’s just how we are. You will get a bit of political relaxation in the first half as I whipped out the calendar and put the 2012 race into perspective. I also decided to tinker with the coming debates, since none of us want to endure 18 months of rigidly-structured, ultra-polite snoozefests where the pre-planned talking points flop around the stage like a basket of dying mackerels. I didn’t plan that bit of the segment, so if you like listening to an idea take form in real-time, well there you go. The Delivery - Episode 94 This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Clearing the Browser Tabs – Cain Train Saturday Edition Posted: 21 May 2011 12:04 PM PDT It is now official; Herman Cain is in the 2012 presidential race. He made the official announcement today in Atlanta George before a crowd that reportedly numbered over 10,000. Wait…over 10,000? That many people crowded Centennial Park on a day when temperatures reached 90 degrees by mid-afternoon to hear an announcement speech from a candidate whose campaign conservative punditry giant Charles Krauthammer said is nothing more than “entertainment”? Huh. Well, I suppose you could listen to Krauthammer and the other “smart pundits” or you could pay attention to how the people who will actually cast primary votes react to Cain pretty much everywhere he goes. I realize the clever insider politicos (not, by the way, that being an “insider” is by itself a bad thing) have dismissed Cain because he’s never held political office, but I’d refer them to the first half of this episode of The Delivery for my counter-argument. I’ve yet to hear a better reason than “well, because” for why a President needs to have held any elected office before and I laid out a couple good reasons why a skilled and experienced executive can do just fine without such experience. It’s worth a listen. And now, links! Glenn Reynolds on Media Matters: “Apparently, their only real function is to help liberal journalists self-herd”. Well, that and as a jobs program for hacks. And speaking of Glenn Reynolds, it looks like an Army of Davids has claimed a well-deserved scalp. Jack Steuf, the humorless dolt who thought a baby with Downs Syndrome was a great target for a political attack has resigned from Wonkette, thanks in large part to #TrigsCrew who let advertisers there know about Steuf’s noxious work. The advertisers publicly pulled their support and, well, goodbye Jack. You’d think folks on the left would have bigger matters with which to concern themselves than the existence of Ronald McDonald. Thank goodness McDonald’s didn’t cave in to their idiocy (via memeorandum). As Ed Driscoll illustrates once again, it’s not that the MSM are a little bit biased, but that they’ve gone all-in for one side. Here’s an interesting study from Nielsen that found people tend to use tablet computers like the iPad for watching television or movies and use eReaders like the Kindle or Nook for reading in bed. I can’t say that’s how I use either one, but it does make sense to me. I imagine you’ll see developers create new uses for those devices to take advantage of the patterns (via Techmeme). So far as I’m concerned, the danger of a disastrous encounter with a rogue planet passed in 1994, but I do acknowledge the possibility that we may have Moks in our distant future. Deep fried strawberries? Yes, please!

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