Tuesday, January 14, 2003

Black and Blue Monday: If Steve Case, Walter Isaacson and Sam Lewis, the tireless Armadillo promoter who just died in Texas, think they had a bad day yesterday - welcome to LCom Hell. In mid-afternoon yesterday our server literally destroyed this site - inhaled it like Clinton with a Big Mac. Among other horrors, thousands of Ldotter registrations simply went poof! into the ozone. If you can't get onto the site or having trouble with your password - you are among the Ldot wounded.  Please be patient.  The 'A' team is on the case and they need all their time to recreate the site not answer your Email asking what's going on. Here's what's going on. One more time. The server destroyed our site. Amy, Jason and crew have been up all night trying to recreate millions of bits of code and information that has taken us three years to build. So give them a break. They are getting it done and we shall survive!!!!

Perfection: Sometimes the perfect word gets coined and should be helped into the mainstream of speech. So it is with the label "Watermelon," defined as "green on the outside, red on the inside" and applied here to Arianna Huffington and her ilk. We love it and plan to use it as often as possible while driving our gas swilling muscle cars, of course.

But, Will He Bomb on Shabbat? Joe Lieberman oozed his way into the presidential picture yesterday surrounded by his former Stamford High School classmates. An odd choice for a man his age but - hey - its smart to hang with those who remember you at your best. There were no hints on how he would handle White House Saturdays should he win. Orthodox rules forbid riding in trains, planes and automobiles, touching money, fire, leather and doing any kind of work whatsoever. It's probably not a bad idea for a president to have one day a week to veg out.

Yes Sir, He's Their Baby: Al Sharpton's candidacy is already giving the DNC the shivering fits and it's just starting. The Prowler reports on how he stiffed a crowd in Oakland to wallow with the Beverly Hills fatcats. The Revvum Al is going to be more fun to watch than anyone else in the race.

Today's Ka-Ching Thing: In this 15,000 word piece by Bobby Kennedy, Jr. in the new Atlantic Monthly, (not available on the web) the late Senator's son defends his cousin Michael Skakel and savages the participation in his murder case of  Dominick Dunne, Mark Fuhrman and defense attorney Mickey Sherman. Of the dozens of tidbits Kennedy provides one of the most riveting is the news that Sherman, who lost the biggest case of his career, charged the Skakel family $150,000 for his appearances on television to discuss the case. This after billing a flat $1,000,000 for his failed defense. What goes around comes around.

-Your Exhausted But Crash Surviving LComStaff