Keira Knightley v. Breast Enhancement

She refuses to allow studio execs to digitally enlarge her breasts in upcoming promos - an admirable stand.

McCain Goes Negative.

We knew it was coming, especially when Steve Schmidt joined the McCain camp. But the reasonably civil, rational debate that the likes of Andrew Sullivan and Matthew Yglesias expected has now been thrown to the curb, at least by the Republicans, in favor of the new highly negative ads produced by the McCain folks. It's an act of desperation for a stale, bungling campaign that has failed to generate any enthusiasm at any level, whether it be from small donors, the blogosphere, live audiences, the participants in Web 2.0 (McCain has 8,704 subscribers on his YouTube channel; Obama has 65,248- even Ron Paul has 53,326 subcribers!), or the voting public - see the trend at Pollster.com's National Poll of Polls. The new ads are, at best, juvenile indeed:




There are roughly 98 days left until the election. It's disappointing to think that these two ads may only be the beginning.

Recent Addition to Reading List

Lolita, Vladimir Nobokov

So.....

I'm done moving.

An update:

Finished:
Hunting for Hope, Scott Russell Sanders
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert M. Pirsig
True at First Light, Ernest Hemingway
A Man Without A Country, Kurt Vonnegut
The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship, Charles Bukowski
Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut
Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality, Dr. Pauline Chen
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death, Jean-Dominique Bauby
How Doctors Think, Jerome Groopman
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling
The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

In Progress:
On the Road, Jack Kerouac
Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond
A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance, Atul Gawande
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science, Atul Gawande
Choke, Chuck Palahniuk
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez