Day: August 8, 2005

Michele Catalano had a little run in with the paramedics tonight.

Whatever it is Michele, I hope it stops, and you get better.

I went to MSN’s ‘Filter’ today and wondered – when it comes to blog content, is ‘Filter’ a good thing or a bad thing? A good filter is google-like. I put in a term and it goes out and finds the most relevant results. I had high hopes that this is what MSN’s ‘Filter’ was going to be all about. You know, a focused alternative to Technorati. Then I figured it out. This isn’t like Technorati at all. MSN Filter is like Boing Boing. Bloggers submit their own posts and a team of people put up their favorites.

Yup – a hip Microsoft group blog for beautiful RSS deficient people.  I wonder who will play the part of Xeni?

For now, I’ll pass on ‘Filter’.

Oh joy.

Television talk show host and actress Rosie O’Donnell will return to Broadway in September in a production of “Fiddler on the Roof,” the show’s producers said on Monday. O’Donnell will star opposite actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein in the musical running at the Minskoff Theater in Manhattan. Fierstein who is playing Tevye, a milkman, will be joined by O’Donnell as his wife Golde, according to a statement.

Can’t wait for the audience reaction during the ‘Matchmaker’ song.

Westchester County District Attorney Jeanine Pirro today said she will seek the Republican nomination to challenge Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s bid for re-election next year.

Pirro will need all the help she can get.

The Hillary machine will try to stop her two seconds after she throws her hat into the ring. Keep an eye on Sid Blumenthal. I bet he’s already been dumpster diving today (update – the trash diggin has hit the press)

The best advice I could give to Pirro would be to use a combination of issues and Hillary’s past to bring her out of her so called ‘Moderate’ position candidacy (more on that here). The minute you get Hillary to defend leftist issues, her guard is down and she comes off looking like a complete wacko.

Americans don’t want a leftist wacko in the White House, and Hillary knows that.

Pirro should also emphasize that if Hillary is elected, she won’t finish her term in office. During their first debate, she should get Hillary to promise that if reelected, she’ll stay in her Senate seat. Hillary’s answer to that should be a good one. I’m sure it will depend on what the meaning of ‘is’ is.

Pirro must be the bulldog. If she appears defensive or weak on ANYTHING, she’ll be a lamb on the way to slaughter.

Go read up on Jeanine Pirro –  http://www.jeaninepirro.com/

Somehow I knew this would happen. Now that Canada had approved same-sex marriage, those who don’t count themselves amongst the gay and lesbian crowd are getting married – for the tax benefits!

Bill Dalrymple, 56, and best friend Bryan Pinn, 65, have decided to take the plunge and try out the new same-sex marriage legislation with a twist — they’re straight men. They want to shed light on the widespread financial implications of the new legislation and are willing to take it all the way.

“I think it’s a hoot,” Pinn said.

The proposal came last Monday at a Toronto bar amid shock and laughter from their friends. But the two — both of whom were previously married and both of whom are looking for a good woman to love — insist that after the humour subsided, a real issue lies at the heart of it all.

“There are significant tax implications that we don’t think the government has thought through,” Pinn said.

Is the Canadian government prepared to institute measures to ensure ‘proof of gayness’? How long before the employed Widow Jones marries her unemployed son so that he can be covered under her health insurance?

Pandora’s Box has officially been opened.