Police and city officials announced Tuesday the arrest of two male juveniles in connection with the recent string of armed robberies in Silver Lake and Echo Park.  The suspects, 15 and 16-year-old residents of East Hollywood, may be involved in the cluster of four robberies that occurred near the corner of Rowena and Hyperion Blvd., said Capt. Bill Murphy, commanding officer of the Northeast Division of the Los Angeles Police Department.

George Bush sat down at the G20 Summit and expressed his confidence in unfettered

markets, Tony Blair has been hanging out in Rwanda and summed up the way development

in Africa should be done and there's an ongoing, nasty argument between a "new media guru"

named Jeff Jarvis and Slate's Ron Rosenbaum, that has spilled over into a general discussion

about the new media vs old media and the failings of representatives of each side.

These things probably don't have much to do with each other, but they are each examples of

the way some people are looking forward to a new way of doing things and some are dragging

their heels....

I've got a slide show for you, but the sound's not very good.  I think it's worth hearing, maybe you have speakers or headphones, because it's audio from a quick interview I did after Barack Obama was projected as the winner of the election.

The one new thing that I came away with is a better understanding of why so many people say that McCain is at his best in the town hall format. He performed much better this time around, didn't come across as so much of an angry little man (could hardly have been worse than the first time) and he was able to counter Obama's reason with a fist-pumping, cheerleading simplicity that, I guess, goes over great among certain voters that I won't pretend to understand.  

So, I wonder, why does he bring his A-game to the town hall and not to a regular debate?

 When thinking about John McCain, I have only one frame of reference: my nannah. 

But I'll try.

So why such little mention of the behavior of John McCain?  Aren't debates mostly a chance to measure the the demeanor, bearing and cool-under-pressure of the candidates?

He speaks:

The war the right lives for, against the people the right truly loathes--the liberal media elite who savagely "Bork" every true conservative who gets on the path to national power--has been reignited.  Positive polarization has been achieved.

Disclaimer:   The author is a recovering Catholic anarchist who considers Phil Knight (the founder of Nike) his mortal enemy (he personally sabotaged my first foray into social activism) yet the author recently purchased a pair of Nike shoes and four pairs of Nike socks because they're comfortable, affordable and attractive.

 Obama's speech had more than 40 million viewers.  Eighty thousand filled a football stadium to hear him.  He officially took charge of the Democratic Party.  He laid out what his agenda would be as president.  He made pointed attacks against his opponent.  So what?  If you ask the many online news outlets covering the Democratic National Convention, the story was old by the next morning.