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Karl Rove stroking a Mac: Bad for both brands?

"Maybe we got you a slow computer back there," said a Fox News wit to Karl Rove during the network's election broadcast.

Rove was insisting that President Obama hadn't quite yet won the election, when his own network had already called the result.

Yes, I watched election night on Fox News. I sensed this would be the place for a little action, a little color.

And yet, as the evening wore on to its Silver-lined conclusion, I couldn't quite shake a sight that seemed especially peculiar: the computer that Rove was using was a Mac. … Read more

2010 gas-guzzlers: Land Rover Range Rover Sport

This week, we've been taking a look at some of 2010's biggest gas-guzzlers. Not surprisingly, this list has been chock full of utility vehicles, and today's blog chalks up yet another entry for Land Rover. Yesterday, we got a look-see at the 2010 LR4, and our newest inductee into the Low Mileage Hall of Fame is the Land Rover Range Rover Sport (which also wins another award for the most redundant vehicle name ever). The LRRRS boasts average gas mileage of 12 mpg in the city and 17 mpg on the highway--not god awful, but certainly nothing … Read more

White House e-mails, the latest chapter

New stuff coming out in the White House email saga. When last we reported we had been told about 50 staffers used private e-mail service while at work. And we explained how hard it would be to truly delete any of those e-mails. Now the congressional investigators say at least 88 White House staff members used a private e-mail service provided by the Republican National Committee (RNC). So far Congress and the RNC have spent two months negotiating about access to those e-mails and even data about the e-mails.

Today's reports say adviser Karl Rove alone has more than 150,000 e-mails still on RNC servers. … Read more

Readers weigh in on Karl Rove and tech debate

Good feedback (public AND private) on today's column today. But invariably, people are going to interpret things through their own particular political prism. So it is that some folks diss me as a lunatic San Francisco liberal while others accuse me of shilling for the Great Right Wing Conspiracy. Whatever, folks.

The bigger question is whether Internet-based entrepreneurship necessarily translates into closer identification with one political party over the other. Rove's recent comments published in The New Yorker suggest he believes it's a no-brainer. Maybe he'll ultimately be proved right. But I still don't see … Read more