OK, Now It's Just Getting Ugly...Except Perhaps in Apple-Land
If it weren't for the inventive minds at Apple Computers, the blogosphere would be a pretty back-biting place these days, what with the continued bashing of Michael Moore by Sen. John McCain, the outing of Virginia Congressman Edward L. Schrock by BL Ochman's whatsnextblog.com, and the discovery of security holes in Diebold electronic voting machines.
Leading the list of bursty people is Morton Blackwell, a Virginia delegate to the Republican Convention who's been handing out bandages with purple hearts on them -- and has been asked by the Republican party officials to stop doing so -- in a slap at Sen. John Kerry's medals from Vietnam. (As the wife of a decorated Vietnam Vet (1969-70) who still jumps in terror when awakened suddenly, I have to get this off my chest: I would never question the service of any soldier who served in that awful war, but I seriously question the motives of the veterans involved in today's smear campaigns).
For the second day in a row, Garrison Keillor's stinging essay on the Republican Party continues its traction, while President George Bush discusses his flip-flo, er, previous statement about whether the war on terrorism is winnable with Rush Limbaugh.
But it's those folks at Apple who've caught some of the top-ranked blog attention by launching the new iMac G5, designed (intentionally) to look and act like their popular iPod. The new machines were introduced in Paris this week.
TREND GRAPH OF THE WEEK: The presidential campaign heats up: Bush vs. Kerry.
Posted by Sue MacDonald at September 1, 2004 11:17 AM
