Mark is way behind on things that purport to pay him money. He is putting up the soup can to let you know that there won't be a lot of posts on this blog for the next few days, nor will he be responding to e-mails at his usual pace...which lately has been none too efficient anyway. He will return to you soon. See if you can find something else on the Internet to amuse you while he's busy. It's a big, world-wide web out there. There must be something.
Pundit Dick Morris says that passing Health Care Reform will destroy the Democratic Party. Joe Conason reminds us that when Dick Morris makes a prediction, you can just about bet the farm that the opposite will happen.
The fact that Morris still has a job says a lot about what our "news" media has become on both the left or right. It's not about telling us what's going on. It's not even about telling us what's going to happen. It's about telling a target audience what it wants to hear.
We have long groused about the inefficiency of the C-Span website and how their video clips were great except for the teensy-tiny problem that you could never get any of them to play. Well, someone there may have redeemed themselves because they've now set up a whole online library of darn near every video clip they have lying around. What's more, it's easily searchable so you can just lose yourself for days, weeks, months watching politicians speak out of both sides of an online player. I haven't even begun to dig around in there...but if you find a great clip, send me a link to it.
Their embeddable player is, as you can see below, a little large for its size but I thought I'd give it a try here. This is an 8-minute press conference conducted by Stephen Colbert on October 28, 2007 when he was presented with the key to the city of Columbia, South Carolina...
March 17, 2010
