http://news.cosmonautmedia.com Cosmonaut News is a daily-updated site in which Joe Peicott, or a member of his merry spacemen crew, comment on a big news story of the day. Wed, 28 Mar 2007 04:11:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Now, to jump on the bandwagon a full year late: The Show with zeFrank is one of the greatest Net creations I have ever seen. I first started checking out zeFrank's daily video blog after reading about the Colbert Donut Debacle. I was both transfixed, and confused (check out ... http://news.cosmonautmedia.com/2007/03/27/on-zefrank/ I take that title of this post (above) from that run-away success of the, erm, Freakonomics genre, Freakonomics. My buddy Brian Kim recommended the by-now dated book to me. I had been avoiding it for some time up to now; the book's got great content, but a horrible, ... http://news.cosmonautmedia.com/2007/01/15/do-you-hate-niggers-do-you-hate-jews-do-you-have-10/ So yesterday the Dem's finally took control of the House. In a, if you don't mind me saying so, weird-ass move, newly crowned Speaker Pelosi asked all the members of the House to send up their grandkids for her swearing in... What a chick-move. Luckily for me, the cheesiness ... http://news.cosmonautmedia.com/2007/01/05/oh-doesnt-that-suck/ This week I'll take one of my favorite songs and rant on and on about why it’s so good. (In my best Dazed and Confused quotin’ voice) Sounds stupid, right? It works!This category could alternatively be titled Songs I Wish I’d Written. Songs so well done, dare ... http://news.cosmonautmedia.com/2006/12/08/culture-friday-2-i-hung-my-head/ So, it's (nearly) official: the long-awaited iPhone is coming out Q1 2007. We know next to nothing about it, just that the same company that builds the iPod is right now busy churning out millions of the little buggers. People seem to have a lot of hope for the iPhone; they ... http://news.cosmonautmedia.com/2006/12/06/iphone/ Welcome To Culture Fridays post #1. For now on, I'm going to try to put up a cultural piece (article on music, movie review, etc.) every Friday. First off: Joe Peicott's Favorite 5 Albums of All Time! Here's how my Top 5 methodology works: These would be the only discs I’d ... http://news.cosmonautmedia.com/2006/11/10/culture-fridays-1-my-top-5-albums/ There's a line in the excellent new Scorsese flick, The Departed, that has been playing through my head.  Near the beginning of the film, Irish Mob boss Frank Costello says, “Twenty years after an Irishman couldn’t get a job, we had the presidency, God rest him.”  The line plays on ... http://news.cosmonautmedia.com/2006/11/04/willfully-ignorant/ Those goddamn CNN headline writers! Last week, they one-upped their previous Best Headline Ever with the kickass, “U.N. Smackdown on N. Korea.” Yes, that’s right, smackdown. Then, they out do all previous contenders for the Zanny Headline award with this gem: Dog Saves Owner from Fire, Dies Trying to Rescue ... http://news.cosmonautmedia.com/2006/10/18/am-i-a-bad-person-for-this/ In the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you can't drive on the roads unless you have auto insurance. The Libertarian in me bristles at this notion. After all, who is the State to dictate how I should pay off the costs of a car accident I am involved in? Maybe I'm a ... http://news.cosmonautmedia.com/2006/10/16/universal-healthcare-gets-going/ Well, after only a day of using Google Docs, I realized it won't, in fact, take me a month to fully evaluate it: it sucks. The deal breaker for me is the fact that it doesn't have any margins. That means that as wide as you stretch the ... http://news.cosmonautmedia.com/2006/10/12/ok-that-sucked/