failure

While campaign supporters on both Dem and GOP sides are flitting around bickering about who zoomed whose elitism first, the winning side will be the one proactive in attacking the other side. Begala knows:

A few weeks ago, I wrote that the Apple TV’s failure to succeed in the marketplace was (and I couldn’t believe it myself) more a failure of Apple’s marketers and Chiat/Day’s advertising than one of technology and product features.

Richard Lawson surfaced again this week in all the chicken-hearted pseudonymity of "Rex and the City" accusing the Planning Commission with making its Bells Bend decision based on economic development rather than land use reasoning.

A failure to disclose campaign contributions leads to a $250 fine for Senator who supported rule change:

The California Commission on the Death Penalty released its report on June 30, 2008, and I think it is important for Tennesseans, whose legislature is also examining the death penalty with the Tennessee Committee to Study the Administration of the Death Penalty, to reflect on what the California report found. Here are some excerpts:

Delays

It's being called "Operation Immortality", an attempt to launch a saving throw for humanity into outer space.

Besides a tenuous-to-the-point-of-irrelevant Lawson connection between Murfreesboro's recent failure and Bells Bend, we haven't heard as much rah-rah for May Town Center this week coming from the City Paper.  But

The commanding officer of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, USS George Washington, has been relieved of command as a result on the investigation to a fire aboard the warship that injured dozens of personnel and set alarms bells ringing in Japan's government.

Senator Bob Corker on the administration’s budget estimate: