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Michigan Supreme Court Justice candidate Bridget Mary McCormack has the best political ad of the season.  Actually, possibly ever.  She re-assembled the cast of The West Wing to explain the rules of a non-partisan ballot.  The ad is informative, educational and it has CJ Cregg in it. If only more political ads could be this great.

We are now fifty days away from the American presidential election and unless Mitt Romney’s campaign team has one hell of a October surprise lined up, I think its already over. Last week people were already saying it when Romney decided that a press conference set up mere hours after an American ambassador in Libya was murdered was a good ...

The West Wing Season One A clip of President Bartlett speaking to a conservative radio host. This is actually from Season Two but who cares. The West Wing is a television drama about the two terms in office of the fictional Democratic president Josiah Bartlett.  It is a wonderful show that serves in many functions.  First and foremost, it is ...

Barack Obama “You didn’t build that” Party: Democratic Party Vice President: Joe Biden Campaign Website: http://www.barackobama.com/ YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/BarackObama Twitter: http://twitter.com/BarackObama Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/BarackObama Super PAC: http://www.prioritiesusaaction.org/ Super PAC’s YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/prioritiesUSAaction Mitt Romney “Corporations are people too, my friend” Party: Republican Party Vice President: Paul Ryan Campaign Website: http://www.mittromney.com/ YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/mittromney Twitter: http://twitter.com/mittromney Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/mittromney Super PAC: http://restoreourfuture.com/ Super PAC’s YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/RestoreOurFuture ...

We’ve approached an interesting milestone for football video games:  this year’s iteration of FIFA and Pro Evo will likely be the final ones on the current generation of game consoles before primary development will focus on Sony and Microsoft’s new consoles that will get unveiled in 2013.  What this means is that this year’s versions should be the most feature ...

For the first time in two years, I qualified for our company’s quarterly sales champions event, now branded Club Red. TFW readers with long memories might remember in the past we did stunt school, Amazing Race around Melbourne and other such shennanigans.  This time, it was a much more relaxed affair.  We spent the afternoon cruising on a 27 metre ...

Lego Minifigures Series 8 have arrived in Australia!  Too be honest, it doesn’t seem that long ago that Series 7 arrived on our shores.  Having said that, there are some pretty sweet minifigs in this set and its a lot cheaper and friendlier for shelf space in my apartment than getting another modular building. My first haul yielded the deejay, ...

“The man in black fled across the dessert, and the gunslinger followed.” When it comes to books, I’m always cautious of the fantasy genre.  I don’t necessarily object to them in principle and I enjoy plenty of fantasy genre films and video games.  It’s just that the fantasy genre for books almost always favours sprawling epics that take the author ...

Over the weekend, Jen and I attended the wedding of our good friends Rhea and Cameron Proudlove. There was a wonderful service held at a chapel in Bardon followed by a reception at the Botannical Cafe in Mount Coo-Tha.  I was the Master of Ceremonies at the wedding which was a rather intense experience.  For all the public speaking I ...