I read plenty of election/political blogs and web sites, and one of my favorites is fivethirtyeight.com, a site that uses all sorts of statistical and demographic measures to predict how elections will go. To date, this guy's been pretty accurate, more accurate in fact than many professional pollsters (the secret: demographics are king, everything else is shit).
Anyway, he had a nice bit about Hillary's problem in Oregon next week, where after the results come in, Obama is expected to do some sort of victory dance. But pay attention to the last paragraph, which I think sums up this race as concisely as anything I've ever read:
Clinton hits you over the head with resume and
facts, whereas Obama's approach is less prosaic. If the two candidates
were in college together, you could imagine Clinton getting really mad
at Obama because she spent days working on her paper, and he whipped
his together that morning and wound up with the better grade.
That is, of course, why so many Hillary supporters can't seem to wrap their heads around the fact that this upstart beat her: This was supposed to be her turn, and she'd been preparing for it for years now. The new kid comes along and does it better. That must be a hard pill to swallow.
Posted by Billman on 5/14/2008 1:23:19 PM Permalink | Comments: 1
Friday morning humor
Posted by Billman on 5/9/2008 9:19:07 AM Permalink | Comments: 0
Thursday evening humor
I've had a long day, but found this amusing, if only because my girlfriend and I have had this conversation on more than one occasion, nerd that I am.
Enjoy your night. The Office is on at 9.
Posted by Billman on 5/8/2008 7:44:41 PM Permalink | Comments: 0
Dear Jesus, please make it stop
So, after Tuesday, most thinking human beings, including our own Billy Manes, realized that for better or worse Barack Obama was going to be the Democratic nominee. Sure, there are a few dead-enders out there (read the comments on Taylor Marsh or Hillaryis44 for examples of the head-in-sand mentality. But for the most part, we get it. It's done. And thank God, because this shit's getting really old.
Posted by Billman on 5/8/2008 3:01:12 PM Permalink | Comments: 0
OW's Top Nine NSFW posts of the year
Naughty.
In our weekly editorial meeting at this here brick building, it was brought to us bloggers' attention that evidence has been found of a hidden genome, somewhere in the phalanges, that causes forefingers to click a mouse whenever the words "list" or "not safe for work" appear. It's bizarre, but I thought let's mash them together and see if the universe implodes upon itself!
Want to?
SO ... here are the 9 (fuck-a 10) best NSFW posts we've upchucked at Bloggytown this year (plus some from Dec. '07). Of course, this is the FL so by NSFW, we mean there may be an impure word here and there. We hide our shame proper-like. Except the first one.
That one's some watch-in-a-dark-basement type shit.
Naked Santa, chimps and doing lines of a porn star's ass after the bounce:
Posted by Justin Strout on 5/8/2008 11:18:10 AM Permalink | Comments: 0
It's like Disney's Celebration … for Paultards!
From the Can't Make This Shit Up Dept.:
This site, which apparently isn't a joke, aims to get (Ron) Paultards of all varieties to live together in some sort of weird, gated hippy commune where they can abolish taxes and end war forevers, and maybe play Halo 3 or something too. Besides, nothing says "libertarian" like a commune.
From the web site (and yes, this idea is just about as facially stupid as you imagine it to be):
The goal of Paulville.org it to establish gated
communities containing 100% Ron Paul supporters and or people that live
by the ideals of freedom and liberty.
The process is forming a co-op of people buying shares in the community
and these people would be granted land use at a minimum of 1 acre per
share, for as long as they homesteaded the land. The community would be
privately held by the co-op to establish private property for the
general community thus preserving the community is 100% freedom and
liberty lovers. The community votes on all community efforts, such as
utilities etc. However no one is forced to consume these utilities and
or pay for them, AKA people can be off grid on their share of land.
This is in line with the ideals that you're free to live your life the
way you want and not be forced to do or pay for other people's life
styles you may not agree with.
These communities are not for the faint at heard they will start as
undeveloped land in non city locals, as this is the way to secure large
tracts of land needed for these efforts.
However the goal is a minimal financial outlay of around $500 per share to establish this community.
If you're interested and willing to attempt to literally change the
world one community at a time then please Join us if your interested.
Posted by Billman on 5/7/2008 3:34:16 PM Permalink | Comments: 1
Stupid people <3 Hillary
Here's a story on rural voters in Richmond, Indiana. And if you read it, you get the sense that these folks are every bit as bigoted, racist and ignorant as some of us "elitist" caricature them. Needless to say, Obama ain't doing well here.
Mary Bunger, a 44-year-old single mom from Abington, emerged from
the town's general store on Wednesday, the only place to purchase a
snack in a 10-mile radius.
"I am definitely going to try to go
with Hillary," she said. "I almost feel like (Obama's) the anti-Christ
from the Middle East."
Bunger reads news
online about the election and has been "trying to talk everybody into
voting, especially this year because I'm really scared for Obama to get
it."
Bunger worries about the Illinois senator's ties to Rev.
Jeremiah Wright, whose recent remarks and former association with the
candidate made headlines the past couple months.
Posted by Billman on 5/6/2008 3:21:23 PM Permalink | Comments: 0
Pardon my misogyny
But this is my favorite politician photo ever. I'll let you guess why.
Posted by Billman on 5/6/2008 1:44:22 PM Permalink | Comments: 0
Heaven isn't too far away
Because there is nothing else going on, or because there are no toy stores selling dildos, or because it's sweeps and you're all suckers, Local 6 is bravely exploring whether or not you will go to heaven when you die.
To paraphrase my last post: I'm not kidding. Local 6 is this retarded.
In the first of several Local 6 reports,
Central Florida religious leaders from the Muslim and Catholic faiths
offered perspectives on how a person can get into heaven.
My guess? If you do what they say, you make it to the big dance in the sky. If not, enjoy the big burn.
This is truly groundbreaking and remarkable journalism.
Posted by Billman on 5/6/2008 1:27:45 PM Permalink | Comments: 0
Speaking of "stoopids"
The brain trust that runs the Pasco County school system just fired a teacher for, um, wizardry.
I'm not kidding. Florida is this retarded.
Substitute teacher Jim Piculas does a 30-second magic trick where a toothpick disappears then reappears.
But
after performing it in front of a classroom at Rushe Middle School in
Land 'O Lakes, Piculas said his job did a disappearing act of its own.
"I
get a call the middle of the day from the supervisor of substitute
teachers. He says, 'Jim, we have a huge issue. You can't take any
more assignments. You need to come in right away,'" he said.
When Piculas went in, he learned his little magic trick cast a spell that went much farther than he'd hoped.
"I said, 'Well Pat, can you explain this to me?' 'You've been accused of wizardry,' [he said]. Wizardry?" he asked.
Tampa
Bay's 10 talked to the assistant superintendent with the Pasco County
School District who said it wasn't just the wizardry and that Picular
had other performance issues, including "not following lesson plans"
and allowing students to play on unapproved computers.
Piculas said he knew nothing about the accusations.
"That... I think was embellished after the fact to try to cover what initially what they were saying to me," he said.
After the magic trick, Rushe's principal requested Piculas be dismissed.
Posted by Billman on 5/6/2008 1:07:32 PM Permalink | Comments: 0
Experts iz stoopids
So Hillary Clinton and John McCain want a gas tax holiday. Economists, universally, even including Hillary supporters, think this is a terrible idea because, well, it's a FUCKING TERRIBLE IDEA. And Hillary knows it; she's just hoping that the low-info voters in Indiana and North Carolina are too dim-witted and ignorant to see beyond the pander.
Anyway, here is one of her surrogates, Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey, defending the pander: "Thank God that we don't have economists making necessarily public policy . . . ."
Here's the video:
Remember the last time we had a president who assumed he knew better than the ivory tower folks? Yeah, Shrub is a fantastic president.
Posted by Billman on 5/6/2008 10:29:02 AM Permalink | Comments: 0
I read plenty of 
So, after Tuesday, most thinking human beings, including our own 
Here's a story
Because there is nothing else going on, or because there are no 
The brain trust that runs the 
