November 2010
“The point, it seemed to me, was that politics isn’t all there is to life, there...”
– Andrew Sullivan on the Stewart/Colbert rally (via aatombomb)
I think he’s generally on target, but I’m not sure so many folks were in favor of compromise. Obama’s attempts to compromise meaningfully were abused by Republicans to weaken bills they never intended to vote for, and...
October 2010
“The anger began when Corey brought up Normal Mailer’s essay “The White Negro,”...”
– Gavin McInnes, Street Carnage (via thenotes)
The whole article is pretty fucking spot on.
Rally
madthoughts:
While I’m excited about the upcoming Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, I’m not going to treat it like the 2008 Inauguration.
I’m not getting up at 6AM. I’m not inviting people to stay at my apartment. I’m playing Saturday fast and loose. I’ll wake up, have my coffee like any other morning, and casually make my way down to the National Mall. If it’s too packed and I can’t see or...
Saltines! Cheese slices! Popsicles!
Chris doesn’t have much food, but he does have Advil and many many episodes of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
I think he has his priorities straight.
Eschewing hotel porn to watch The IT Crowd on my iPhone.
NNNNNERRRRRRDDDD!
“I like my eggs dippy.”
– Pittsburgh English
Unpopular Science →
Another fantastic set of drawings by Christoph Niemann, this time on the subject of the laws of physics.
I like Warm Jets Eno far more than Airports Eno, and the new Eno is the latter. As such, I will not be posting a link to it streaming over at NPR. I have listened to it once, and, because this is clearly headphones going-for-a-walk type music and I have not left the house with it, I hesitate to say that it is boring. But it is boring. Oh, Christ is it boring. Even the fast parts are boring.
Maybe...
Juan Williams and NPR
Last week, I got emails telling me to “save” NPR and saw Facebook status updates calling for its destruction. Meanwhile, Iowa Public Radio ran its best fund drive ever - full of hilarious Alec Baldwin spots and a much better approach to interspersing funding requests with news stories.
In general, this Juan Williams business been more of a soap opera than a legitimate news story. My...
Jens Lekman - The End of the World Is Bigger Than...
This Is The Part Where I Don’t Wear Anything Purple Because I Don’t Really Own Anything Purple And I Work At Home Anyway And Nobody Would See, But It Is The Part Where, Even Though I Think This Kind Of Thing, Like Recycling, Does Less To Help Anyone Than To Make Ourselves Feel More Charitable And Less Powerless, When All We Did Was Take Five Seconds To Put On Clothes Or Update Our...
“Seriously, though, Betty, KILL YOURSELF AND/OR MARRY ME!”
– From a very excellent Mad Men season finale writeup over at Videogum.
“Hemingway only went back to shoot himself.”
– An anonymous reader, writing to James Fallows about the dangers of expatriation, after Fallows argued that “about the best thing young Americans could do for themselves and their country is to spend serious time in other parts of the world.”
I agree with this sentiment wholly - there...
Brief Review of Sarah Palin's New TLC Show
It gets off to a depressing start, but at least it ends like Into The Wild.
How Do You Get Rid of Bedbugs?
fakescience:
For J&S.
