Today’s WWDC delivered. We had heroes and villains. We had guys with funny accents, failed demonstrations and amazing technology applications. We stared on, slack-jawed, faithfully drinking whatever the Apple Kool-Aid company deliverith. Deficiencies were sold as new features, and we loved it. Nobody knows what good a compass is in a phone, but what the heck, why not. Yaaay! Cut-Copy-Paste, just like a real phone! A better camera, with video! It’s all faster, it’s all euphoric. TAKE ME NOW!! Best day of my LIFE!! It was definitely worth hunching for 2.5 hours over my Macbook watching Gizmodo‘s coverage trickle in every few seconds… I felt like a child furiously sucking every last drop of Nyquil-infused Purplesaurus Rex out of an empty sippy cup. [..]
Tea Bag: 1) A small porous sack holding enough tea leaves to make an individual serving of tea. 2) When you wake up to feel something that's warm, soft and fuzzy on your face and you realize it isn't a puppy.
What a week.
Teabagging hits the mainstream news. Not because some Jack Thompson figure lost too many Halo 3 matches and decided to become an activist, but because the political right… well, I’m not sure they even know why, but I’m sure it has nothing to do with taxes. Also, Texas governor Rick Perry aligns with right wing extremists for secession, and I wonder if he speaks for Texans in general. I mean… you elected him. (Then again, we Minnesotans apparently elected Michelle Bachman, so I can’t really speak to that.)
So, it’s 1773, and the American colonies are protesting being taxed by the British government because they are not seeing what their taxes are being used for. “No taxation without representation.” This was an important protest, cementing its place in future American history textbooks as one step leading to when the colonies began the American Revolution against the British government in 1775.
Yesterday on April 15th, 2009, literally hundreds of Fox News viewers massed together at various sites across the country to reprise the famous 1773 protest and “Teabag Obama”. This time, however, the anger isn’t over taxes being underrepresented – it is over what the money is being used for.
If you google “tea bag rallies”, you will get a lot of news articles generally mocking the idea of these teabag protests. (Or teambag, as my Halo team says, or speedbag if you don’t have much time to pull off the maneuver.) The problem is, the message of the Teabag Protests has not been clearly articulated through the Fair and Balanced news media. [..]
