about the Oscars representing a "sign of the times" , since the four acting nods went to non-Americans:

We frequently talk about our vanishing culture. The English language, the customs, the American traditions, all slowly evaporating.

It seems to me that realizing that every single acting award at the Oscars went to foreign actors is a pretty compelling sign of the times...

Notwithstanding the fact that all four of those might have been well-earned (and that lamenting the victories of two English-speaking Brits as a symbol of the English language "vanishing" is just too weird for words)...

In 1965, all four of the acting nods went to non-Americans. The year before, two had gone to non-Americans and a third to a Spanish-speaking Puerto Rican. That's seven out of eight in the span of two years. Has "our culture" been vanishing for that long?

This is why bloggers sound so dumb sometimes: a minute's research could have stopped him from posting such an idiotic interpretation.

h/t to aironlater at dkos for the link.

You know it's bad when Lt. Gen. Michael D. Maples, the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency says waterboarding is torture and illegal under the Geneva Convention in front of today's Senate Armed Services Committee hearing.

Sucks to be pro-torture today I'm guessing. (and what's up with this commie Lt. General saying we have to abide by foreign rule anyway? Maybe he's french. Maybe that's why he's still a Lt. General)

I think it was C&L, but it could have been the Carpetbagger Report, but one site I was reading this afternoon was talking about the McCain rally on Monday where the rightwing radio guy introduced McCain and made a big thing about his middle name. Well the discussion on the thread went to different politicians of our past and someone named off several famous persons & Presidents. The one that caught my thought here was Richard Milhous Nixon. A number of the posters did not know that was his middle name. I was surprised. But then again, lotsa folks who participate in blogs weren't even born when Nixon resigned. Still, for someone who doesn't think of himself as old, there are distinct generational differences among some of us.

Take that talk of the Wii games...Now I know (from freinds) that the Wii is a great video game. I don't play them. None of them. Video games passed me by when arcades went past Donkey Kong. I didn't have the time to learn the new games and play them. I was working or in college or both. Music is another referance point. C&L linked to an old B-52's disc from 1989. To me, that's one of their later records. No one here knew who Blind Faith was yesterday. I know you all know who Clapton was/is. I hope you all know who Stevie Windwood is (Spencer Davis Group/Traffic/Blind Faith/solo stuff. I admit, they're geezers....but I guess they're my geezers.

Long tribute to Buckley at Red State that I found pretty amusing, because if Buckley had said some of the things in the comments section at Red State that he had said publicly (like, for example, Bush should resign he is such a failure, or that the Iraq War was a failure, or that the Bush White House was criminal in regards to the Plame affair), Moe Lane would have banned him without giving it a second thought.

From John Cole, recovered wingnut.

I was thinking about Buckley earlier and it struck me that the ultimate condemnation of the utter shambles the GOP has become is this: the highly articulate and intelligent (if deeply misguided) Buckley dies and has to be eulogized by the likes of Coulter and O'Reilly.

William F. Buckley- first and last giant of modern conservative thought.

It's a rather tragic epitaph.