The New York Nerd

Who do you think knows more about economics, John McCain or Miss South Carolina?

Live TV, Canadian Brown Finch doesn’t take well to being referred to as an infestation:

I am a big fan of a clean monitor, I abhor finger prints on it. Even if you’re not as fanatical about having a clean monitor as I am, you should check out this novel method of cleaning your screen: check it out.

Barack Obama was invited to speak at Dr. King’s church on MLK Day. He gave the most powerful speech since Dr. King spoke there himself. It is the second most popular video on youtube currently, approaching 400k views. You won’t see the media cover this on tv, even though 53 major newspapers did. This video is 34 minutes, so watch it when you have time.

Mitt Romney is about so white it’s hilarious, watch as he says, “who let the dogs out… woof, woof!”, and “nice bling bling!”… what an ass clown!

When Giuliani was Mayor, he ran the city as if he were a mafia don. Cross Gay-Rudy (I just made that mob name up for him), and he’ll throw the book at you. Check out this case, covered by the New York Times: A man complained about police tactics where they’d set up a sting in the Bronx, it makes front page of the Daily News. Gay-Rudy gets pissed, has the poor sap arrested the next day on a 13 year old traffic warrant, case gets thrown out, but then police spokesman lies and says he was arrested on a sodomy charge. This guy sued the city and won, but not before he had a nervous breakdown. Here’s more

Watch Bill Clinton fall asleep throughout this speech, too bad he’s sitting right behind the podium.

A huge victory for New York last night, as the Giants beat the Packers, and are the first New York team to reach a championship game since the 2000 Yankees. Check out this video, Eddie Murphy predicted this 20 years ago!

Today is MLK day, and we celebrate the great history of a great man. The media will only celebrates the early half of that history. You will hear about civil rights, and the “I have a dream speech”. You won’t hear about anything that Dr. MLK did after blacks were granted their rights.

MLK turned his sites on economic rights of the poor. For the last 3 years of his life, before he was assassinated, Dr. Martin Luther King was outspoken about economic equality, the US’s support of brutal regimes around the world that suppress the poor… but you won’t hear a peep about these 3 years from the media. At the time all of the media coverage was slamming MLK for speaking about these issues, a 180 from the support he got from them on civil rights. MLK was also extremely outspoken against the Vietnam War.

I think it’s important to remember all of this when we think about this man’s great history. Here’s more