[Translate] Jon Stewart’s Rally to Restore Sanity with Stephen Colbert on October 30, 2010 drew in a bigger crowd than Glenn Beck’s Rally to Restore Honor. Stewart’s event drew in over 210,000 people, and Beck’s rally in August had less than 100,000 people in attendance. Entertainment Weekly reports that 250,000 attending in person and 4 million...
Monthly Archives: October 2010
[Translate] The Dallas Cowboys improbable season continues. The only thing worth watching at Cowboys Stadium this season are The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders and the stadium’s art work. The Cowboys were blown out at home by the Jacksonville Jaguars 35 to 17, as Jaguars Quarterback David Garrard threw four touchdown passes. In fact, David Garrard tied a club...
[Translate] CNN’s Dana Bash has some explaining to do. Her tweet about Alaska U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski caused the Senator’s name to be retweeted so much, it’s now the second hottest topic on Google Trends as of this writing. Used properly, Twitter can be a force for good or bad. In this case, the bad is for Lisa Murkowski and the good may be...
[Translate] The 35th annual Marine Corps Marathon took place Sunday, October 31, 2010 throughout the D.C. streets. Runners from across the world came wearing festive attire as they ran through the DC. streets. Dr. Jill Biden, Vice President Biden’s wife, fired the starting gun at 8 a.m. and the runners began their 26.2 mile run. The marathon is also known as...
[Translate] Denise Borino Quinn, the actress who played mobster Johnny Sack’s wife Ginny Sacramoni on The Sopranos has died of liver cancer. She was just 46 years old. According to EOnline, Borino Quinn died last Wednesday at Morristown Memorial Hospital in New Jersey, and her funeral was held Saturday. On July 23rd, 2000, Denise was selected to play the...
[Translate] When does Time Change Fall 2010 take place? That seems to be the question of the day online, as this first period of heavy online use in our history is causing confusion on this day of Daylight Savings Time, called “DST,” or the Time Change Fall 2010. (UPDATE – Now it’s our turn!) But for Europe, not America or the Americas. Today...
[Translate] Note: Time Change for USA on November 7th. Some hold that today is Time Change Fall 2010, but the problem is that Daylight Saving Time at 2:00 a.m. on the second Sunday in March and reverts to standard time on the first Sunday in November. In America. In November. That would be next week. Today is October 31st, Halloween. But in Europe, because it’s...
[Translate] The Rally to Restore Sanity/Fear, hosted today by comics Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert in the Washington Mall, was a star studded success. Attended by performing greats such as Tony Bennett, Kid Rock, Cat Stevens, Ozzy Osbourne, the O’Jays’ and Sheryl Crow, the hundreds of thousands of people who were there in person, surely were not disappointed. Stewart...
[Translate] The Rally To Restore Sanity And / Or Fear, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s effort to restore a sane political discourse and drawing 1 million to The National Mall in Washington DC, featured CNN’s Anderson Cooper. Well, his tight t-shirt that is. Anderson Cooper’s tight t-shirt, seen at seemingly every disaster in the World, was given...
[Translate] The Rally To Restore Sanity may be in Washington DC, but it has spawned events in other parts of America, like Seattle. According to The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the Seattle version of The Rally To Restore Sanity has drawn “thousands” of people who could not make it to Washington DC today. The Rally To Restore Sanity: Seattle is part of...
[Translate] The Rally To Restore Sanity And / Or Fear, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s answer to Glenn Beck’s insulting rally on the National Mall before MLK Day, has drawn 1 million people. (UPDATE – Seattle Rally To Restore Sanity draws 5,000.) This count comes from this blogger’s experience attending the Presidential Inauguration, January...
[Translate] Did CBS’ Two And A Half Men star Charlie Sheen scream the N-word while on a drunken coke rant as part of his partying at the New York hotel The Plaza and at the restaurant Daniel, as reported by RadarOnline.com? If so, what would NBA Legend Michael Jordan, who made those Hanes Commercials with Sheen, have said if he discovered that...
