Programming Note: Dialing It Back A Bit

As many of you have noticed (an emailed as such), I've taken a bit of a break over the last weekend. In the run-up to the election I was posting sometimes as many as 10-12 times a day. Needless to say, with a PhD that needs researching and writing, that's a pace I cannot maintain.

But I won't let this thing die altogether. Too many of you are reading and emailing me good stuff. I'll carry on posting--though probably closer to 1-2 times per day--while picking my NewsBusters stuff up a bit. I'll be sure and posts links here when I write something there.

One of my duties at NewsBusters is posting links to interesting articles in the "Editors' Picks" sidebar. If you come across something particularly good that you think would be of interest to 300,000 readers of conservative, media-bias hating readers, email it my way and I'll get it posted.

Thanks again for all your emails--complimentary and not. Keep 'em coming. Our guy may not have won the election, but that doesn't mean the fight is over. We won an important victory in California by passing Prop 8, but that fight isn't over either.

Now we have to do what we can to oppose His Oneness's liberal-socialist agenda and continue to defend marriage at the state and federal level. One woman or man standing up for what's right inspires others around them to do the same.

Be that person.


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Programming Note: Internet Availability

Thank you to all those of you who continue to email me with comments and tips and whatnot. I really appreciate it. I apologize for not taking the time to get back to all of you or even having the opportunity to post a fraction of the many good links and youtube videos and quotes you all send me.

With no internet at my flat, I'm only able to access the wonderful web once-a-day and when I do, I'm inundated with 70-80 emails, at least. I try and schedule posts for the times when I won't have access to Al Gore's baby, which leaves me a little less timely than I tried to be in the past.

Bear with me. It will get better.

Keep sending stuff--comments, links, vids, etc.--and be patient as I sort through all the various housecleaning details.

Thanks.


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Programming Note: Travel Advisory

Again. This will be the longest leg of my interminable move. Today I leave for London. I don't know what my internet connection will be like when I arrive, so bear with me. I'll update where and when possible. For those of you accustomed to near instantaneous email & text response from me, well, it will take me a few days to see about getting my BlackBerry up to British speed.


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Programming Note: Liveblogging Presidential Debate #2

Per usual, I'll be live blogging tonight's Presidential debate between Barack Obama and John McCain. The debate itself starts at 6pm PDT so I'll start covering the pre-debate stuff at 5pm PDT.

Also per usual, tell 10 of your friends.


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Programming Note: Travel Advisory

Today I will be traveling as a part of a larger week of moving and relocation. Regular posting will resume tonight through Wednesday and then be scarce again until probably Friday.

In the meantime, read Ace.

I've decided to take Susan Sarandon up on her challenge. She and many of her Hollywood friends have threatened (every election) to move to some other country (usually Canada) if their favored candidate (Democrat) didn't win.

I noted the 2008 iteration of this last May.

And now, I'm prepared to take them up on their challenge--call it a bet. If John McCain wins, follow through on your promise and get out. If Barack Obama wins, I promise to rid you of my continuous presence for the next 2-3 years.

Any takers?


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Programming Note: Liveblogging The VP Debate

Back by popular demand (and because I enjoy it), I'll be live-blogging tonight's Vice Presidential debate between Governor Sarah Palin and Senator Joe Biden. Tune in for snark-free commentary and analysis of the debate as it happens!

The debate kicks off at 7pm. I'll start by giving a little pre-debate analysis of the TV coverage at 630pm MDT and carry on with typical analysis of the debate itself at 7pm. Be sure to send your emails with observations and commentary to the email listed below and I'll do my best to plug them into the live-blog.

Thanks, and in the tradition of David Axelrod's famous grassroots (read: astroturfing), tell 10 of your friends.


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Programming Note: Liveblogging The Debate

For those of you looking for another blog to check during the debate, take a look at OL&L. I'm not certain exactly what form it will take, but I'll be liveblogging the debate tonight from 6:30pm MDT until 9pm.

Tell 10 of your friends.


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Programming Note

We thought we'd find out the results of the College Blogger Contest today, but we didn't. After calling up America's Future Foundation, we were informed one of the judges was a little tardy returning their ballot. We were promised the results would come tomorrow (Tuesday).

We'll be sure and post whatever we find out on the blog ASAP.

News will probably come as we're on our way up Little Cottonwood Canyon for a day of skiing the fresh pow at Alta. The way we look at it, it's a win/win proposition. Even if we don't win the contest, as we suspect, we still get to ski the good snow at the center of the skiing universe.

Thanks again to all of you who have emailed and commented and generally done all you could to make this blog the best it can be (considering the limits of its author). We really do appreciate you and hope you'll continue visiting us here at OL&L to contribute to our ongoing conversational dialectic. We probably won't keep up the same pace we set during the competition 8+ significant posts per week, though you can expect a post for every business day. We started doing a word count for the posts written during the course of the competition. We haven't finished, but it's going to be thousands and thousands of words. And all of them written by us and edited by our brother.

We're also planning making a few OL&L t-shirts for all of our fans to wear to the gym(and for the haters to use to wash their cars). Friend of the blog, Craig Collette, made up a few pleasing-to-the-eye designs which we'll post to the blog later this week for y'all to vote.

Stay tuned. (that should be the our programming motto)


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It's A Beautiful Saturday Afternoon...

....and we hope you're not indoors like we've been, but outside enjoying some sort of athletic activity.

So, with spring in the air, we're thinking about baseball, and fantasy baseball. Email us if you're interested in joining our official, OL&L Fantasy Baseball League. Who knows, Morgan, maybe you'd find you liked baseball?

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They linked to us, we'll link to them:

BYU Weekly (see "Faces of BYU")

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We just finished transcribing our interview with Brian Jones of Mercury Public Affairs, formerly John McCains Director of Communications, RNC Director of Communications, and lots of other really cool stuff. Our Bush-hating readers will be glad to know he helped the Bush-Cheney campaign in 2004.

Anyway, we got it typed up and are figuring out how to put it on the web. Stay tuned.

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Thanks to everyone for their comments and the healthy discussion that has resulted here at OL&L. Don't burn all your good thoughts on one post--we need y'all for the long haul. So, post early, post often--even if it's just to say, "Jake, you're an idiot."

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Regarding Spikers' point about the President's influence over social issues: agreed that he/she has very little personal influence over those issues. However, he or she will choose at least one Supreme Court Justice. It is highly likely that this new Justice will, along with the rest of the Supreme Court, rule on cases related to abortion, gay marriage, and less likely, stem cell research.

Furthermore, this new Justice will be either be constructionist in their judicial philosophy or activist. For these reasons, we want a Republican President committed to picking a judge like Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia, John Roberts, and Samuel Alito.

The thought of having another David Souter makes us want to throw up.


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