Akkam’s Razor

Senator Saint Celebrity BBQ POW McCain is getting increasingly desperate, taking the Sugar Momma Express Low Road Express manufacturing controversy and going negative, and taking damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don’t criticism of Obama’s planned visit with the troops.  But by calling out Obama’s ‘celebrity’ and comparing him to Paris Hilton (and Britney Spears), he may have inadvertently alienated a prime GOP financial supporters - namely, the Hiltons!  Paris’ parents Kathy and Rick have been relatively stingy given their wealth, but her grandfather, William Baron Hilton has contributed nearly $400k [cumulative] according to FEC records via Newsmeat.  This excludes any contributions to entitites where disclosure is not required, such as PACs.  Keep in mind that the Hilton’s are one of the 18 hyperwealthy American families who collectively pushed for the repeal of the Estate Tax to protect their family wealth.  I’m not certain I’d want them against me…

• blog.pmarca.com: OK, you’re right, it IS a bubble
  OK. You’re right. It’s a bubble. A huge, massive, inflating bubble. We’re all doomed. Doomed, I say!
  (tags: web2.0 bubble entrepreneurship geek web business Fun satire)
• Books Q&A: The Real Charles Schulz - Newsweek Entertainment - MSNBC.com
  ‘Peanuts’ creator Charles Schulz emerges as insecure and an emotionally distant father and husband in a new biography and documentary.
  (tags: comics newsweek charliebrown charlesschulz)

• The Raw Story | NY Times: Bush signs landmark executive order increasing power over federal agencies
  “[I]n an executive order published last week in the Federal Register, Bush said that each federal agency must have a regulatory policy office run by a political appointee” who will monitor the creation of process and procedures and the associated document
  (tags: georgebush nannystate executiveorder constitutionalcrisis separationofpowers)
• Disney claims ownership of fairy-tales in the public domain.
  “It would be understandable for Disney to try and protect its interpretations of existing characters, but its application for so-called “word marks” implies something much more than that: it implies exclusive rights to use all those characters.”
  (tags: fiction fairuse fairytales)