1997 Acura 2.2 CL
Black outside, gray leather inside
Sunroof during the day, moonroof at night
5 speed manual transmission – fun to drive!
Sony 10-disc changer, cassette, AM/FM radio
Power everything
Stylish Coupe
104,500 miles
$6,250 or $6,225 if you show up with a six pack of Miller Lite.
E-mail to js (a) tenor.com if you are interested and capable of coming to the DC-area to check out the car.
Month: June 2004
This is not what the Greeks called “philia”
This just shows how hopelessly befuddled this culture is about the word “love”.
City of Brotherly Love kicks off gay ad campaign
Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love, has launched the first U.S. television advertising campaign to promote a city as a gay destination, officials said on Wednesday.
In the television commercial, a young man in colonial attire writes a letter inviting his beloved to meet him at Independence Hall, one of the city’s main tourist attractions.
The man is approached by a woman who glances at him but passes by before another man greets the letter writer and accepts flowers.
The spot emphasizes the city’s historic attractions and its friendliness to gay travelers and is part of a three-year, $1 million campaign using the slogan “Philadelphia – Get Your History Straight and Your Nightlife Gay.”
Beach Reading
I read Stephen Ambrose’s Citizen Soliders last week. I enjoy reading Ambrose because he’s a master story-teller that gets his facts straight and lets history speak for itself. The book includes hundreds of quotes and stories from the people on the front lines.
An interesting nugget for the “Any military engagement longer than 2 weeks is a quagmire” crowd: in the days following the D-Day invasion, certain people in the government and the military were concerned the invasion was “bogged-down” and no progress would be made. In some places it was, but overall it was a tremendous but costly success from a military standpoint.
Are you a moron in a cage?
No, you say?
MORON ON THE LOOSE!
Raines on Kerry : ‘Lurch Gone to Choate’
Howell Raines compares John Kerry to Lurch of Addam’s Family fame. Did John not say this first? Raines is brutal to Kerry:
“I personally find him easier to talk to than Al Gore, but there’s no denying that he’s ponderous,” Raines continued. “And he’s pompous in a way that Gore is not. With Gore, you feel that if he could choose, he would have been born poor and cool. Kerry radiates the feeling that he is entitled to his sense of entitlement. Probably that comes from spending too much time with Teddy Kennedy, but it’s a problem. The TV camera is an x-ray for picking up attitudinal truths, and Kerry’s lantern jaw and Addams Family face somehow reinforce the message that this guy has passed from ponderous to pompous and is so accustomed to privilege that he doesn’t have to worry about looking goofy. It’s as if Lurch had gone to Choate.
“Recently, a lot of campaign reporters were writing that Kerry is altering his ‘populist’ message and moving to the centre. If John Kerry was ever a populist, George W Bush is a Rhodes scholar. Here’s what Kerry has to face up to and build upon. The difference between him and Bush is that Kerry represents the liberal, charitable wing of the Privilege party and George W represents the conservative, greedy wing of the Privilege party….”
“Surely someone in Kerry’s campaign can figure out a way for him to say, ‘Here’s my plan for getting us out of Iraq and defeating terrorism,’ and ‘Here’s my plan for making sure you’re not sick and poor in your old age.’ And then make him say it over and over again, no matter what question is asked of him.
“Kerry has to face the fact that even though the incumbent looks like Goofy when he smirks, he’s going to win unless Kerry comes up with something to say. To stay ‘on message’ you have to have one.”