"Chuck Norris" was Facebook master password

And that's just for starters, dear readers! The Rumpus.net has an interview with a Facebook employee (whose identity is withheld to safeguard continued employment) about the real state of privacy on the popular social site. Bottom line: if you write something on Facebook, it's always gonna be there for Facebook employees to find (and even though the company has a policy about intruding on users' accounts, it's apparently rarely followed). And at one time the password that let any Facebook staffer log into any account was "Chuck Norris".

(Feel free to post the inevitable Chuck Norris jokes in the comments.)

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Willie Horton, Chuck Norris, and... ME?!?

Okay, this blows my mind completely. Because for two years now I have heard overwhelming praise for this commercial that I created for my run for Rockingham County Board of Education in 2006. The comments that people have shared most often? That this is a "positive" and even "upbeat" political ad. And that's what I love hearing the most about it: that it doesn't attack anyone. Heck, I don't make negative ads, as a personal policy.

Here it is if you haven't seen it already...

So then this afternoon someone passes along this blog entry from the Denver Post newspaper in September that lists "some of the most infamous examples" of negative campaign ads.

The first one listed is Lyndon Johnson's diabolical "Daisy Girl" ad.

Then they name George Bush Sr.'s "Willie Horton" anti-Dukakis ad from 1988.

Next on their hit list is Mike Huckabee's ad from earlier this year featuring Chuck Norris.

And finally... there's my "Star Wars school board" commercial.

HOW the *#&@ does anyone figure that I'm somehow associated, in the least little way, with the Daisy Girl and Willie Horton?!?

Seriously though, I have to laugh about it. But that's still very... odd.

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