June 2008
16 posts
WatchTrippy. A rendering program that shifts horizontal lines in time. Watch the door.
“For those that didn’t get the memo, my name is Jay-Z and I’m pretty...”
– Jay-Z, triumphant at Glastonbury
“There are many things people do not know about BARACK OBAMA. It is every...”
– I heard recently that the Left’s response to bloviators like Rush and Bill-O was humor in the Stewart/Colbert vein. Could this be the new “Chuck Norris Facts”?
Rumors Barack Obama’s campaign shouldn’t try to correct. - By Christopher Beam - Slate Magazine (via bookowl)
“It got worse when Sinclair’s lawyer Montgomery Sibley—whose license is...”
– Reason.com’s coverage of the Larry Sinclair press conference. Having read the article, I regret signing the petition to keep him out. This stuff is pure comedy gold.
“‘Nobody can convince me’? Bells should go off in your heads when...”
– Penn Jilette
“Reviewer: George Bush from The White House
Does this mean Senator McCain...”
– Actual reviews of the John McCain golf pack on sale at John McCain.com.
Who will Obama choose as veep? Nope, you're wrong... →
The selection of a vice-presidential nominee is potentially the most important un-democratic election in the world, though Vladimir Putin might disagree.
“It’s easy to be nice when you’re drunk on good booze and schadenfreude.”
– The Wonkette comments section
“Mexican hospitals are much cleaner than I expected.”
– My friend Kelly, discussing her honeymoon.
“‘Our primary season has finally come to an end.’ THANK FUCKING...”
– Wonkette
Obama Claims Nomination: First Black to Lead a... →
I love you, America.
May 2008
35 posts
WatchYou’ll never look at Jason Giambi, Derek Jeter, or Johnny Damon the same way again.
Huh?
Susie: I told Tim [Foster] we got some balcony furniture this weekend. And then Tim said, "Now you can sit out on your balcony and drink mint juleps." And I was like, "Tim, we don't live in Kentucky."
Me: You don't need to live in Kentucky to drink mint juleps!
Susie: When in Rome.
Watchfinaljeopardy: Final Jeopardy for 13 May 2008. 2008 College Jeopardy Semifinal.
“The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human...”
– Albert Einstein
Minister Backing McCain Appologizes to Catholics... →
Here’s my comment, which may or may not be approved by the Times: Sadly, Mr. Hagee’s anti-Catholic comments are only one facet of his deplorable crusade. He openly promulgates, among other things, the idea that God will send Muslim terrorists to smite America because we support a two state solution in Israel [1], God (and the Bible) demand that we preemptively declare war on Iran[2],...
Mixtape →
Rock out chulo style with my muxtape mixtape.
“I just read a paper in which a student informed me that music has ‘an...”
– Brian Williams (not that Brian Williams)
“Headbands…what a tough accessory. When they are right, they are really...”
– The Sartorialist [via kottke]
The Oil Nonbubble [Paul Krugman] →
France consumes only half as much oil per capita as America, yet the last time I looked, Paris wasn’t a howling wasteland.
“Labertew - it rhymes with sabertooth… Except it doesn’t.”
– Susie
Against Obama-Clinton '08 [The Atlantic] →
When Ronald Reagan selected George Bush as his running mate in 1980, he chose someone who had harshly criticized him on the campaign trail. But Bush never came close to making the kind of racially-tinged and lacerating attacks against Reagan that have become Clinton’s stock in trade in her race against Obama. The idea that Obama’s army of small donors would actually compensate the...
“The banner should have been much more specific.”
– Dana Perino discussing the five year anniversary of the “Mission Accomplished” banner.
Obama v McCain
Game on.
Bush Administration Scolds Another Government For... →
Had the Bush administration — hypothetically — been dealing with a major natural disaster about to ravage the United States, numerous warnings would have been released in strong terms from the President himself, to underscore the severity of the situation. And if the President’s efforts weren’t effective enough before the storm, immediately afterwards he would’ve been devoting...
“I really never imagined that Hillary Clinton would become Pat Buchanan’s...”
– Josh Marshall
“I think there’s going to be racial hell to pay tomorrow when everyone...”
– Veracifier
Say, Isn't This Election Just Like A Great...
Chris Matthews: Isn’t this election just like a great FOOTBALL GAME? I mean, like great knockdown, drag-out football game, where people are hitting each other really hard and really going at it? Don’t you think it’s just like a football game?
Howard Fineman: Not really, no.
Chris Matthews: I think it’s just like a football game, I really do. It reminds me of, you know, going to the stadium and seeing two teams just BATTLE back and forth. Only now we’re in OVERTIME! Isn’t it just like an OVER TIME FOOTBALL GAME?
Howard Fineman: Again, no. Football is an athletic contest played on a field whose outcome is determined by some combination of physical skill and good luck. This is a presidential primary election, whose outcome hinges on grass roots organization and effective if sometimes duplicitous PR and ad campaigns. It’s, you know, totally different.
Ed. Observation: How often does Kissing Suzy Kolber nail election coverage? It's sad how accurate this is. And hilarious.
“Much nonsense has been written about how Hillary Clinton is “toughening up”...”
– Thomas Friedman
“A society that has an internet is a different kind of society than a society...”
– Clay Shirky speaking at Harvard Law School
I am RICH and I want to spend it on YOU tonight.... →
I have many vehicles which I use to travel across the world and to many exotic destinations where most people cannot go, because they are so poor. They have very little in dollars, but I, myself, I have very many dollars. Also, I am sexy for a man. I like to think that if I was a woman, I would be a playboy model. But since I am a man I am like the opposite of all that, the man version....
Dumb as We Wanna Be [Thomas Friedman] →
Few Americans know it, but for almost a year now, Congress has been bickering over whether and how to renew the investment tax credit to stimulate investment in solar energy and the production tax credit to encourage investment in wind energy. The bickering has been so poisonous that when Congress passed the 2007 energy bill last December, it failed to extend any stimulus for wind and solar energy...