Link // George W. Bush's approval rating stands at 21%. This is the worst approval rating of any President since they started taking notes. Nixon got as low as 23% at one point, but bounced back to 24% when he left office in disgrace. Couldn't happen to a more deserving fellow. I'm interested to see what Gallup's results are, since they seem to have the longest record of asking this question.
Mark just sent me to an article about how investors at Apple's latest quarterly earnings report were nervous about Steve Jobs' health. They reportedly asked him to name a successor. Which is just silly. I went back and looked at the list of likely successors. I noted that my favorite (and Job's favorite, if the article is to be believed), Scott Forstall, Senior vice president, iPhone software, may be watching his star fall, given all the reports of bug-ridden iPhone 2.0 software. Which only serves to illustrate that picking a successor now means having to pick a different successor down the road, if Jobs happens to live a little longer, and/or the Anointed One screws up. So give it a rest, and let's not kill Steve before his time is up.
I usually dip salad in the dressing, rather than tossing it, for fear of crappiness I can't undo. This was validated by today's tzatziki.
Link // Obama pulled in $25 million on the last day of the month in June. In one day. That's more than McCain raised ($22 million) in the entire month. This was part of his $52 million month, with an average donation of $68. I'm proud to say that the wife and I were part of that (to the measly tune of $100 ea.).
Link // Der Spiegel predicts that Obama's speech in Berlin on Thursday could pull up to one million people. One million. A million people turning out to listen to a foreign politician. Wow. Of course, the low estimate is 10,000. There's a lot of wiggle room between 10k and 1 million.
Link // I went to college with him, though we hardly knew each other. He was better friends with my roommate, Arshad, though I don't know that they keep in touch. What with Bobby's meteoric rise in the Dark Side hierarchy, and all.
