‘Times’ Crossword Puzzles In The Tank For Obama
Thursday, September 25th, 2008
Barack Obama has cleverly seized control of our nation’s crossword puzzles by having so many alternating vowels and consonants in his last name. Meanwhile, John McCain gets no love anywhere from anyone, although he might do OK in one of them Jumble puzzles, where you have to unscramble four words and then take a bunch of random letters out of them to spell “FIVE AND A HALF YEARS, ALAN.” [Politico]
Barack Obama has cleverly seized control of our nation’s crossword puzzles by having so many alternating vowels and consonants in his last name. Meanwhile, John McCain gets no love anywhere from anyone, although he might do OK in one of them Jumble puzzles, where you have to unscramble four words and then take a bunch of random letters out of them to spell “FIVE AND A HALF YEARS, ALAN.” [Politico]
The Wall Street Journal has kindly made its end-of-year News Quiz available even to you, the person without a WSJ account because it’s not like you’ve got stocks or whatever. This is a way for the Big Money people to reward you for taking an interest in national and world affairs, despite your unenviable position on the Wealth Ladder. 