Not sure why everybody is all over Newt Gingrich today. He has always been very clear in his belief that we should preserve the sanctity of marriage as a sacred bond between one man and one woman and another women and a third woman and, hey, who’s that?! Yes, and — damn! — her too!
You don’t need me to point out the blatant hypocrisy of Newt Gingrich’s professional and personal stances on family values. The blogosphere is rampant with it today. On Yahoo! News, Walter Shapiro admirably addresses Newt’s mercurial history and wonders if it’s even possible for him to change this late in life.
Newt’s a complex guy. Sometimes his opinions run parallel to his actions. Who among us does not practice what we screech sometimes? How many times to I tell my kids to go outside and get some goddamned exercise as I settle down in front of the game with a bucket of wings and a six-pack? So lighten up, conservative, evangelical Republican voting base: despite his infidelity and his callous mistreatment of his many, many, many wives and his desire for an open marriage — deep down, your guy still wants America to be the land of traditional family values. He just wants a little strange on the side for himself. He just happens to have a soulmate for each of his many souls.
Here is a young Newt Gingrich at his father’s inauguration as the mayor of New York in 1994:
You don’t need me to point out the blatant hypocrisy of Newt Gingrich’s professional and personal stances on family values. The blogosphere is rampant with it today. On Yahoo! News, Walter Shapiro admirably addresses Newt’s mercurial history and wonders if it’s even possible for him to change this late in life.
Newt’s a complex guy. Sometimes his opinions run parallel to his actions. Who among us does not practice what we screech sometimes? How many times to I tell my kids to go outside and get some goddamned exercise as I settle down in front of the game with a bucket of wings and a six-pack? So lighten up, conservative, evangelical Republican voting base: despite his infidelity and his callous mistreatment of his many, many, many wives and his desire for an open marriage — deep down, your guy still wants America to be the land of traditional family values. He just wants a little strange on the side for himself. He just happens to have a soulmate for each of his many souls.
Here is a young Newt Gingrich at his father’s inauguration as the mayor of New York in 1994:
O Captain! My Captain!
So Francesco Schettino says he fell off the Costa Concordia and into a lifeboat. It could happen. I once fell out of math class and into a Mets game. Also, I have often fallen off the sidewalk and into a bar.
Anyway, following is exclusive footage of Captain Schettino leaving the ship:
Anyway, following is exclusive footage of Captain Schettino leaving the ship:
Coffee Talk
Today I reached into my pocket and pulled out exactly three quaters, which is exactly how many you need to power up the single-serve coffee machine in the break room. Glancing down, as I sometimes do, I noticed that all three were special-edition Montana state quarters.
"Hmm," I wondered aloud, "I wonder what the odds are of that."
By the time I returned to my desk, there was a message waiting for me from my neighbor, Harvey Dickson:
"By the end of the 2008, all of the original 50 state quarters had been minted and released. The official total, according to the U.S. Mint, was 34,797,6000,000 coins. The average mintage was 695,952,000 coins per state, but ranged between Virginia's 1,594,616,000 to Oklahoma's 416,600,000.
"Montana's total was 513,240,000
"So I think the math on the odds would be 1 in 50x50x50/(percentage of Montana's share of all state quarters.)"
So he either made that up or looked it up, and frankly, I don't know which would be sicker. In any event, it puts me in the mood for this:
"Hmm," I wondered aloud, "I wonder what the odds are of that."
By the time I returned to my desk, there was a message waiting for me from my neighbor, Harvey Dickson:
"By the end of the 2008, all of the original 50 state quarters had been minted and released. The official total, according to the U.S. Mint, was 34,797,6000,000 coins. The average mintage was 695,952,000 coins per state, but ranged between Virginia's 1,594,616,000 to Oklahoma's 416,600,000.
"Montana's total was 513,240,000
"So I think the math on the odds would be 1 in 50x50x50/(percentage of Montana's share of all state quarters.)"
So he either made that up or looked it up, and frankly, I don't know which would be sicker. In any event, it puts me in the mood for this:
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