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...keep Terri Schiavo alive earlier this year and suddenly supporting a G.O.P. congressional plan to allow oil drilling 125 miles off the coast of Florida. Whether his latest proposal, to move Florida's Medicaid patients into managed-care plans, turns out to be a sensible reform or a conservative flop remains to be seen...
When a Hollywood studio invests heavily in a movie that turns out to be a box-office flop, the polite euphemism is: "The film didn't find an audience". California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger had a similar problem finding his audience in the state's special election yesterday. The former Hollywood star had backed four government reform propositions; by Wednesday morning it was clear that all four were voted down in a crushing rejection of the governor's program for change...
...Hills hotel long before the final results were tallied. "In a couple of days victories or losses will be behind us," he said, and then got off the stage fast before the real bad news became official. Unlike in Hollywood, there was no chance to make up for the flop with DVD sales...
...quick and helpful pointers, check out Presentation S.O.S., by Mark Wiskup. Among the guide's surprising suggestions: don't start off with a joke (it will probably flop), and avoid famous quotes (original thoughts have more impact...
Some bloggers earn their bias the hard way--in the trenches. Military bloggers, or milbloggers in Net patois, post vivid accounts of their tours of Baghdad, in prose covered in fresh flop sweat and powder burns, illustrated with digital photos. "Jason," a National Guardsman whose blog is called justanothersoldier.com, wrote about wandering through one of Saddam Hussein's empty palaces. And Iraqis have blogs: a Baghdad blogger who goes by Salam Pax (dear_raed.blogspot.com) has parlayed his blog into a book and a movie deal. Vietnam was the first war to be televised; blogs bring Iraq another scary step closer...