http://dailycandor.com A daily cup full of reality. Forget that Starbucks shit; drink this. Tue, 06 May 2008 09:36:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Because it sucks. I always, stupidly, check it before dressing in the morning. At least 50% of the time, it's off by more than 10 degrees during the day. Today, it said it would reach a high in SF of 73 degrees F. We're in SOMA, a relatively warm part of the ... http://dailycandor.com/is-there-something-more-reliable-than-weathercom/ Much like Rapunzel, Barack Obama seems to have spent much of his life in an ivory tower. I'm beginning to think Rev Wright is less of a problem for connecting with blue-collar voters than his propensity to use ten-dollar words when anything beyond a $2.50 word is incomprehensible to those ... http://dailycandor.com/obama-please-temporarily-remove-these-words-from-your-vocabulary/ Every time one of the Democratic candidates seems to get "the momentum" after a spate of contests, they lose it the next go-around. Could their foibles and scandals really be so precisely timed as to take the wind out of their campaign precisely after it seemed like it was gaining ... http://dailycandor.com/momentum-to-hell-with-momentum/ Hillary Clinton is either completely delusional, or she's a complete liar. I'm guessing that she's both (a complete liar, but delusional enough to think she would get away with it). Now Christopher Hitchens alleges (credibly) that her loyalty to Hillarycare over all else was responsible, in part, for the U.S.'s ... http://dailycandor.com/man-am-i-glad-i-ended-up-voting-for-obama/ I've now watched a total of 10 episodes of Kitchen Nightmares and 3 episodes of the current season of Hell's Kitchen, and what's clear is that Chef Gordon Ramsay does not like to be upstaged intellectually. The Hell's Kitchen contestants are all idiots. I mean borderline braindead. This is in huge contrast ... http://dailycandor.com/gordon-ramsay-enjoys-yelling-at-idiots/ I've been irritated about Obama's latest slipped-out Harvardism, that small-town folks turn to guns and religions because the state of this country has left them bitter, not because it's not true (it's 100% true), but because this is the sort of honesty I'd like to see from Barack after the ... http://dailycandor.com/if-obama-is-kerry-all-over-again-mccain-is-clearly-dole/ I logged into my blog after two months of complete neglect to see over 400 comments awaiting moderation. I thought it was the usual spam crap until I started wading through the list. Not sure how this post made it on someone's radar, but it seems to have spread virally, ... http://dailycandor.com/follow-up-what-europeans-think-of-each-other/ Yahoo: Hello, I am Marc Manson. I will be helping you today. Can you please give me the phone number of your account? Me: XXX-XXX-XXXX Yahoo: Thank you. How may I help you today? Me: I would like to upgrade my DSL service. Yahoo: I understand that you want to upgrade your DSL service. ... http://dailycandor.com/my-chat-session-with-yahoo-service/ I am very pessimistic about global warming. Here's why. Pretty much every activity increases the level of CO2 on the planet. Of course, we know about those evil SUV drivers. But so do Prius drivers. So do public transportation riders. So do bicycle riders (How does their food get planted, harvested ... http://dailycandor.com/global-warming-and-the-jevons-paradox/ Why is it, in the minds of so many gay men, that the only closet cases they see are attractive? In other words, why are Matt Damon and Tom Cruise so clearly gay, but never Rainn Wilson or Steve Buscemi? http://dailycandor.com/a-paradox-to-ponder-2/