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September 2008

“It’s Bushism metastasized.” —Andrew Sullivan, describing McCain’s choice of Palin, showing him to be “more interested in politics than policy, more interested in campaigning than governing.” The reader Sullivan quotes in this entry does a better job than I have in the last few days getting at the heart of what bothers me so much about this choice. It basically comes down, as far as I’m concerned, to a lack of respect for the office itself.
Aug 31, 2008

August 2008

Twitter posts

I’m dropping my twitter posts from my tumbleblog, but they can still be found at http://www.twitter.com/wadcity

Aug 29, 2008

republican’t

Aug 29, 2008
"Describing Paintings" by Adam Zagajewski

We usually catch only a few details —
grapes from the seventeenth century,
still fresh and gleaming,
perhaps a fine ivory fork,
or a cross’s wood and drops of blood,
and great suffering that has already dried.
The shiny parquet creaks.
We’re in a strange town —
almost always in a strange town.
Somewhere a guard stands and yawns.
An ash branch sways outside the window.
It’s absorbing,
describing static paintings.
Scholars devote tomes to it.
But we’re alive,
full of memory and thought,
love, sometimes regret,
and at moments we take a special pride
because the future cries in us
and its tumult makes us human.

via Design Observer

Aug 27, 2008
Village Fair → digbysblog.blogspot.com

A stark repudiation of the psychodrama narrative perpetuated by Maureen Dowd.

Aug 27, 2008
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Aug 27, 2008

Favorite line from Death Wish: “Why haven’t you found my dog? He’s vital to my income, he paints the most marvelous pictures with his paws.”

Aug 27, 2008

another bat in the house last night. he winged me in the basement, i ran away, came back, he was gone. huh? SLEEP WITH ONE EYE OPEN.

Aug 27, 2008
Play
Aug 26, 2008
Aug 26, 2008
Aug 26, 2008

Being a man means eating the same things as a woman and not getting diarrhea. Am I right or am I - uh-oh, I may have tweeted too soon. Urgh!

Aug 25, 2008
Aug 25, 2008
Play
Aug 25, 2008
WaPo: Ohio Voting Machines Contained Programming Error That Dropped Votes → voices.washingtonpost.com

Gee, it’s not like people have been saying these systems were flawed for years or anything, right? I mean, surely, it’s just this one error, right? Why would there be any reason to suspect any others? My God. These guys should be sued for their souls.

Aug 23, 2008
How to Get Rid of Things → getridofthings.com
Aug 22, 2008
Aug 22, 2008
Aug 22, 2008

and i thought beach volleyball was porny without the wet t-shirt contest…

Aug 22, 2008
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