Just another nerd.
Lee Seitz has an authoritative site on Rom, The Space Knight, a Parker Brothers robot action figure that was pretty cool even though it flopped. I had a couple of these when I was a kid. Looks like go for about $200 if you can find them MIB on EBay.
It wasn’t that cool of a toy.
There was also a tie-in with a Rom comic from Marvel which ran for 75 issues. Hey, maybe someone should ask Michael Brian Bendis if he’s interested in doing an Ultimate Rom!
The primary goal I’ve had for the past few years is to get my web sits to the point where they’re serving more than 1 million page views/month. This week was the first time I’ve ever seen traffic above the 250,000 page views/week level.
Good, now I can quit and go do other things.
Just kidding.
I thought the Yankees were going to sweep the Red Sox, so my prognisticating isn’t very good. That said, my prediction for Tuesday’s election — Kerry pulls out a win. If you look at the Real Clear Politics graph of the daily average of the major polls, the race has been pretty stable with Bush having a 2-3 point lead. That’s just not good enough, in my opinion, for an incumbent president to win. I think on election day most of the battleground states will see very high turnout from Democratic voters and Kerry will win.
What I am hoping for is that there will be an electoral tie, Bush loses the popular vote again, and the House elects Bush (since Republicans will almost certainly have the majority in the screwed up system the Constitution requires the House to use). If that happens, the controversy over 2000 will look like a tempest in a teapot. Now that would be reality TV worth watching.
And it would probably finally bring about a serious movement to simply have direct election of presidents and ditch this electoral college relic.
First it was the Democrats threatening Sinclair over its plan to broadcast an anti-Kerry documentary. Now the Republicans are following suit by filing a complaint against a couple radio show hosts who have been attacking a Republican member of the House and have endorsed his Democratic challenger.
According to the L.A. Daily News,
In a complaint to the Federal Elections Commission, the National Republican Campaign Committee accused radio station KFI-AM (640) co-hosts John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou of “criminal behavior” for attacking Rep. David Dreier, R-Glendora, and endorsing his Democratic opponent, Cynthia Matthews.
By criticizing Dreier’s positions on immigration, promoting a “Fire Dreier” campaign and making on-air appeals for voters to elect Matthews, the NRCC said, the hosts gave Matthews an unlawful corporate, in-kind contribution of more than $25,000.
This is exactly the claim made by Democrats about Sinclair, and is an inevitable outcome of the ridiculous McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform. Reframe speech as a monetary issue, as demgagogues like John McCain repeatedly do, and there’s little room for First Amendment niceties.
Source:
Action filed vs. radio hosts over talk attacks. Lisa Friedman, L.A. Daily News, October 29, 2004.