An obituary for Sprint’s “Trench Coat Guy”. Apparently Trench Coat Guy isn’t suitably professional for the business market Sprint acquired when it bought Nextel last year, so they’re dropping him. The Post goes on and on about this guy in what I suppose is meant to be a cute, funny way, but considering that the only cell service spokesperson anyone remembers is Verizon’s TRULY iconic “Can you hear me now?” guy, I just don’t see the topicality of this story. I mean, I didn’t notice that he wasn’t in Sprint’s ads anymore. Did you? Well, as fascinating as this post about what I’ve determined is a pretty boring subject is, I think I’m going to stop writing now.
GWB nominated Harriet Miers for the SC. She’s never served as a judge and now she’s been put forward to be one of the judges on the highest court in the country. That’s pretty interesting, no? I wonder what kind of response she’ll get from the Democrats–feigned outrage, or real outrage?
Joel Achenbach has a pretty hilarious perspective on it:
The president carefully and deliberately selected as his nominee for the vacant Supreme Court position the first person he ran into in the hallway this morning. He has been up front about this technique all along, what he called “the dartboard approach.” It could have been anyone — an usher, a steward, a dog-walker, the guy carrying the nuclear codes. Liberals will rejoice that it wasn’t Rove.
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