An apology

I'm leaving!

In 15 minutes the new season of "Doctor Who" starts in Britain, so I'm entering internet silence until we can watch it later tonight.

I'll be back some time tomorrow probably.

"Honey Boo Boo" ratings top Republican Convention

The fourth episode of "Honey Boo Boo" pulled in just shy of 3 million viewers at 10 p.m., according to Nielsen overnight ratings, growing 30 percent from last week's 2.3 million haul.
In the demo, "Honey Boo Boo" did even better. The half-hour series' showing among adults 18-49 bested all other cable outings for the night — coverage of the Republican National Convention, included — to pull a 1.3 rating.

Clint Eastwood sings the hits of Neil Diamond

The TV show that inspired Clint Eastwood's speech last night

The Rom-bot 4000 gets a running mate.

Debuting next week in "The New Adventures of Queen Victoria...." THE RY-BOT 4.278!

Nothing like a good gay-rights thread in GD

to build your Ignore list.

Sigh.

Mind if I hang out in here for a while?

Would you sit quietly as a leader of the KKK gave the benediction at the Democratic Convention?

No?

Then don't tell us it's "only one prayer" and to shut up and sit down again.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/cardinal-dolan-who-prayed-for-obama-on-marriage

"America's Next President"

A filmmaker friend, Chis LaBree, came to me back in the spring and said "is it just me, or is this election looking more and more like a reality show?"

And thus began the journey to "America's Next President."



"America's Next President" lampoons both our obsession with reality television and the dearth of political discourse in our modern world by letting the "voters" at home pick from among nine ridiculous candidates including a pot-legalization advocate, a fire-breathing preacher, a vulture capitalist, a man from Tennessee with three PhD's who lists his favorite hobby as "noodling," and a guy in a lobster costume. Oh, and Hitler.

Twice a week your host Mac Fleetwood joins judges Jessica Fletcher Christian Leibowitz, Drake "Pi-Dawg" Booker, and Missy-Lynn O'Hara as they put our candidates to the test. Who will win? Only the voting public knows for sure.

I had the pleasure of writing the first nine episodes of this satire cum farce, and the eventual winner actually will be picked by "voters" at the show's website at http://americas-next-president.com/

The series debuts September 17th, and I hope you enjoy it.

What a difference a (biased) pollster makes.

From electoral-vote.com, today's map with all polls factored in:



If you take Rasmussen out of the picture:



Take Rasmussen out, and Obama jumps from 297 to 347 electoral votes. Romney drops from 212 to 191.

I wonder what it would look like if you took just-as-biased "Purple Strategies" out as well.