Author: Jonathan Blundell

I'm a husband, father of three, blogger, podcaster, author and media geek who is hoping to live a simple life and follow The Way.

Colbert on ‘Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me’

Recently announced presidential candidate, and host of The Colbert Report, Steven Colbert, appeared on NPR’s “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me” this weekend.
His segment of the show starts at 17:56 into the show.
Colbert is running as a Republican and Democrat in South Carolina only.
As always, good stuff.
Colbert says he was “genetically engineered for The Daily Show” and he owned his own suit so he was well fitted for the job.

Post debate reaction

The GOP held another value voter debate last night. From the NPR report this morning, it sounded like Romney, McCain, Giuliani and Thompson simply fought each other over who was the most conservative among them. There were several mentions about Ronald Reagan’s 11th Commandment, “Thou shalt not talk poorly about another Republican.” And along with those mentions was the fact that Gov. Mike Huckabee chose not to get involved in the petty bickering.
NPR also made reference to the fact that Huckabee is now becoming a real contender for the top GOP spot, citing his 2nd place in the Iowa straw poll as well as 2nd place in a Florida straw poll over the weekend.
As soon as the audio is up online I’ll post a link to the story. Listen to the full story from NPR.
Here’s more reaction about the debate:
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My Ode to Half Price Books

Brandi has a post on loving the library… our library – well honestly I haven’t visited it yet. But I can tell you, the Waxahachie library isn’t much to write about. I’ll have to see about the Red Oak library before too long.

Instead, I’ve developed a nice love/hate relationship with Half Price Books. So now I share with you My Ode to Half Price Books.

Oh Half Price Books, how many great books you sell.
You sell them at half price so they can be loved twice as much.
Yet when I bring you books for you to buy, you buy them for pennies on the dollar.
I bring you four boxes of books – mainly medical books – and you give me 16 dollar.
I bring you $18 and you give me two books.
I love you, yet I hate you.
But until a new love comes along I will continue to buy your books.
And continue to give you a look.
I just hope you can love me the same.

For the record I got a low-carb cookbook, Time to Cook Low Carb and Lone Star Nation, by H.W. Brands for $18 Friday night