Monthly Archives: February 2004

One more on the ‘Superbowl’

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I wasn’t going to say more about yesterdays marketing event that had a football game scattered through it but then I read Andrew Cline’s post and thought I’d just react to it. First:

I believe my nine-year-old daughter should be able to watch the Super Bowl with me without being exposed to Janet Jackson’s boob or Kid Rock’s desecration of an American Flag.

Yep, we should have been warned and all this talk of the boob baring being an accident…I don’t buy it one bit. Why else did he reach across her chest and grab on? On the other hand, we did not have young children in the house at the time and were more surprised then anything else.
We also were not amused or entertained when Kid Rock appeared wearing a flag. It did not lend anything to his, for us, mostly unintelligible performance and seemed to only serve to insult a large part of the audience.
Next:

The game was boring until the end.

I enjoyed the game and think it would have been much better if I’d used a TIVO or some such and watched it without the commercials. And they did seem to create more then the usual number of opportunities for commercials.
Yes, the commercials. I didn’t pay enough attention to them. My laptop was open and I was working on some financial statements that needed to be done yesterday. However, I did kind of listen and Andrew sums up the high point of the event nicely:

The funniest line of the entire evening wasn’t meant to be funny. In the list of side effects for the erectile dysfunction drug Cilas was this dire warning (paraphrased): If an erection lasts more than four hours, seek immediate medical attention.

My wife and I were both ears only at this time but it got our attention, our laughs and several minutes of amusing discussion.
Update: Tegan has a complete rundown of all the ads. Counting the ad package at the end of the game there were 29 breaks. Somewhere there was an American football game….

January’s Top Referrers

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On the right side bar is the updated roll of Modulator’s 20 top referrers . Number 20 produced 12 referrals compared to 9 in December. Statistics are culled from AWStats running on Modulator’s server at Hosting Matters.
There was less churn in January then in December as 5 blogs dropped off and 4 new ones have been added .
Oh, and January was a record month for Modulator! Thank you one and all!
Also, I’d like to acknowledge significant referrals from some of the blogosphere’s ‘service’ sites: Technorati, weblogs.com, blogrolling.com, MovableType, Blogdex, blogoshpere.us, Sitemeter, NZ Bear’s Ecosystem, Bloogz and Daypop.
All of the blog rolls except the Base Roll are ordered by most recently updated so be sure to ping weblogs.com or blogrolling.com to push to the top of the rolls. These are certainly the sites I tend to look at first and visitors will see you at the top of the roll as well.
For a brief discussion of Modulator’s blog rolls look here.

Superbowl Pictures you may have Missed

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Update(2/3): the folks at Vivid Blurry I link to below were forced to take the pictures off their site. There is still a single picture at The Gothamist link below.
Who was that the announcers were talking about just before the second half kickoff? And, would you like a close up of Janet and Justin?
Head over to Vivid Blurry*. Not work friendly.
Via The Gothamist where resides another NWF photo of J & J.
Update (2/2): Kevin Barkes wonders why Janet was wearing a Borg implant (NWF)? Via Vodka Pundit.

*Upate (2/7/06): The Vivid Blurry link above is a 404 now. Try this and this. Neither are work friendly.

awol’s pass may be revoked this time around

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Perhaps this time around bush’s military record (or lack thereof) will see the light of day in complete detail.
It looks like the dems are going to keep active in the media:

Mr. McAuliffe criticized President Bush on his attendance for National Guard service during the Vietnam War. The comments delineated a line of attack that Senator John Kerry, the front-runner in the campaign and a decorated war veteran, may adopt should he be the party’s nominee and face Mr. Bush in a one-on-one race.

Jack Balkin has some thoughts on this here:

Instead of cowering in the corner when the media said that the charge of desertion was false, Terry McAuliffe is raising the more plausible question whether the President was AWOL while in Alabama. Nevertheless, it is particularly strange to me that McAuliffe chose to break this story on Super Bowl Sunday, which is not a good time to cover a political event.

and quotes extensively from a 2000 NYT article that suggests bush should be cut some slack on this. However there is this:

Mr. Bush went to work for Winton M. Blount a few days after Mr. Blount won the Republican primary in Alabama on May 2, 1972.
From that time until after the election that November, Mr. Bush did not appear for duty, even after being told to report for training with an Alabama unit in October and November.
Mr. Bartlett said Mr. Bush had been too busy with the campaign to report in those months but made up the time later.

It seems to be that if you have been told to report for duty and you don’t show up that is a pretty good description of AWOL. It certainly was when I was in the service.
It might be worth some journalistic time to look more closely at exactly how bush got into the Air National Guard. For instance how well did w match up with the requirements that everyone else had to meet?
As mentioned in the last post honesty is a good policy. And for governments and those wanting to play with other folk’s lives honesty and complete transparency are mandatory.

Uhhh, when will the bs stop?

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From the Guardian:

Intelligence sources, policy makers and weapons inspectors familiar with the details of the hunt for WMD told The Observer it was widely known that Iraq had no WMD within three weeks of Baghdad falling, despite the assertions of senior Bush administration figures and the Prime Minister, Tony Blair.

As Jim Henley notes:

The official hawks, like bad dope dealers, got too fond of their own product. They wanted it to be true and convinced themselves of their desires.

Most of us have been taught that honesty is a good thing and will bring good results in life. The republicans still have time to nominate a candidate who has learned this lesson.