Food bill fury

Well, one of the most "interesting" stories to come out over the weekend has to be this. You have to wonder what goes through the minds of what must be reasonably intelligent, sensible people when they decide to produce things like this.

Ms Fedele has also used the classic get out of "I once supported an African American" to defend herself and her actions. I'll let you make your own minds up about that.

The Daily Beast

I saw this on The Daily Show with John Stewart the other day and thought I'd link to it here. This from The Daily Beast,an American "aggregator" Blog run by Tina Brown out lines why famous "liberaatarion" and author Christopher Buckley is voting for Barack Obama.

The Daily Show is well worth watching, and looking for on Youtube.

Only a quick post this as I;ve got a law lecture... more later!

CNN and NBC and BBC and FOX and...

The US Election rumbles on as these things do. Making headline news every single day and having your every word analysed, pulled apart chewed up (by Rush Limbaugh probably) and spat all over the media can't be easy for the candidates.

Charlie Brooker continues to comment intelligently and amusingly on the media coverage of the election. His piece on watching CNN for Monday's Guardian was particularly good.

Despite the fact his name is at the top of the Republican ticket, John McCain is still being overshadowed by his running mate... who is now being overshadowed by Saturday Night Live's Tina Fey! Her impression of Palin has been big news on both sides of the Atlantic this week.

The breaking UK politics story of the day is George Osborne's ill advised comments after his alleged meeting with a Russian oligarch who, bizarrely, owns Leyland Daf Vans! The Times covers the story focussing on Gordon Brown's calls for an investigation into what's gone on.

Andrew Sparrow speculates exactly what there is to investigate in his Guardian politics blog.

Stay tuned for more regular posts on this blog!

From substance to smear

First of all, an apology. This is only the second post to this blog, as Blogger's Anti-Spam-Bots flagged up my first post as spam. I thought it was considered and thoughtful comment, but one man's meat is another man's etc and so on!

As such I seem to have ended up with quite a range of subjects that I felt I should have blogged on, but haven't had the chance. The banking crisis continues to claim more victims, with the whole of Iceland pulling out of global stock trading. Channel 4 managed to unearth a Londoner who'd invested with an Icelandic bank, which was paydirt for Jon Snow (and his tie).

The major political point related to this has been Angela Merkel's decision to assure her citizen's that the nation will guarantee their savings. Alastair Darling was very unhappy about this, as he was seemingly determined not to be forced to follow suit at this stage. The Guardian's Business section (even though this is a political blog) reports it here.

The US Presidential race rumbles on as interminably as it ever does. Were it not for the dire state of the World's finances (and the Olympics) this would've been the lead story on practically every edition of Channel 4 news this year.

The "debates" seemed to have turned to mud-slinging over the past few days, after Le Palin's comments abour Senator Obama's alleged links to Bill Ayers. You can find out more about Ayers right here. But beware of Wiki-ality!

It does seem that as the Republicans seem to sense this race slipping through their fingers, they've switched from policy debates to personal attacks. That doesn't mean the Democrats are above that sort of thing, however, and they've dragged up Sen McCain's involvment in a financial scandal 20 years ago. The BBC touches on it here.

Finally the BBC has a poll tracker that you feel certain Peter Snow must've had a hand in. It don't mean a thing if you aint got that swing-ometer.