Check Out Rachel Diggs Album: Center of the Earth

A new album by Rachel Diggs entitled "Center of the Earth" is worth checking out on iTunes.

Rachel is the wife of a former colleague, David Seymour, who worked with me at Fawcette Technical Publications, Inc. in the last millenium.

I know she's been working hard at breaking into the music business for years. The two of them moved to Los Angeles to help her career.

As a customer review on iTunes put it: "On first impressions, it's the instantly accessible melodies of "At the Center of the Earth" ... that grab the attention, but repeated plays demonstrate they're supported by the almost aquatic atmosphere at the album's core. (Some) are reminiscent of Miss Higgins (whom, vocally, Rachel most closely resembles ...) while others ... wouldn't have been out of place on I Nine's recent debut release."

At any rate, check it out on iTunes. Give the samples a listen and you might get hooked.

Good luck Rachel and David!

McCain Disses Media's Love Affair with Obama

Who knew GOP Presidential candidate John McCain had a sense of humor?

Their latest campaign video ridicules the press for being in the tank for Obama to the tune of Freddie Vallie's "Can't Take My Eyes Off You." All they had to do was string together a series of quotes and out takes, but the result is dead on.

It's also a comment on television comics that McCain can make a video this funny, while the comics somehow can't think of a single joke to make about the eminently risible transcendent one.

Google Blocks Anti-Obama Bloggers

A number of blogs that oppose Barack Obama's Presidential campaign have been blocked from posting by Google, according to the New York Times.com.

Many of these blogs are associated with women's' groups protesting what they see as sexist, unfair treatment by the Democratic party.

How Sexism and Racism Brought Clinton Down

"White women are a problem, that's -- you know, we all live with that"

           ~~ William Kristol of the New York Times and Fox News to laughter during a political discussion on Fox TV.

“She's talking like she's Annie Oakley!”

           ~~ Barak Obama, falsely implying that Sen. Clinton lied about ever using a gun.

“When I ran for the Congress, when I ran for president, I met more discrimination as a woman than for being black. Men are men.”

              ~~ Shirley Chisholm, U.S. Senator and first major party, African American Presidential candidate in 1972.

If you’d told me at the beginning of this year’s seemingly endless Democratic Presidential nomination process that sexism is far worse in American than racism, I’d have scoffed.

But the contrast between the incredibly abusive, biased treatment main-stream media gave Senator Hillary Clinton and the adulatory coverage of Senator Barak Obama made it obvious that sexism is far worse than racism.

Sen. Clinton has been described on television and in MSM print as: a whore, a witch, a bitch, Hitlery (in the New York Times ), Hildebeast, she-devil (MSNNBC), shrill, castrating, merciless, heartless, a vampire, compared to a psychopathic killer, likened to North Korean dictator Kim Il Jung, (LA. Times) being as “mean as Leona Helmsley (for simply not quitting the campaign according to Business Week)”, “like "a scolding mother, talking down to a child" (on CNN), and derided for her laugh, her cleavage (in the Washington Post), her thick ankles (Carl Bernstein on ABC), her clothing, her "Wal-Mart shopper’s bad hair and big bum" (New York magazine), and for “pimping her daughter Chelsea” (MSNBC).

Virtually no attention was paid to this bias by the media until Senator Clinton’s campaign was over. Even now this constant and astonishing level of vitriol is denied by some in the media. Fewer want to acknowledge the active role of Obama's chief strategist, David Axelrod (his Karl Role, or Lee Atwater) in stoking the fires of both sexism and racism to attack Clinton.