March 2008
32 posts
Cadence Weapon - In Search of the Youth Crew...
“Then there are the bands that, unfortunately, attract such a hipster fan base...”
– Save Me From Your Followers (via yourmonkeycalled)
“I recall very clearly one night before the war began. I made myself write down...”
– Andrew Sullivan, “What I Got Wrong About Iraq” (via kenyatta, askvero)
The Long Winters - New Girl flickr
Black Guy Asks Nation For Change →
According to witnesses, a loud black man approached a crowd of some 4,000 strangers in downtown Chicago Tuesday and made repeated demands for change.
“And then I say Obama is the first candidate in my voting experience who seems...”
– Rosecrans Baldwin, “Paris, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down” Go read the whole article, it’s not all politics, the travel game part is really funny.
“We can play Reverend Wright’s sermons on every channel, every day and talk about...”
– Barack Obama (via DF)
“Off-camera Olbermann, it turns out, is a lot like on-camera Olbermann. The gray...”
– Stephen Rodrick I think of the last line of this quote whenever I watch an Olbermann “Special Comment”. It’s a perfect description of what bugs me about KO. While I almost always agree with what he is saying, the smarmy self-righteousness is so over the top.
You Know You're a Nerd When ...
hipsterdiet: You love Prime Minister’s Questions. Well, used to when Blair was in office. Damn he was brilliant. It usually airs on Sunday nights on CSPAN and it involves the entire House of Commons questioning the Prime Minister on issues of the day. Can you see a sitting US President do that even once a term? Screw hyperlinks today: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister’s_Questions ...
“We are a culture without the will to seriously examine our own problems. We...”
– David Simon (via sharingtime, rach)
The Ikea Heirarchy
An analysis by two Danish academics found that the Swedish furniture store Ikea gives its “better” products Swedish and Norwegian names, while “lesser” products are christened with Danish names. An analysis by a blogger on a Germany-based Web forum also reached the same conclusion. Here’s the hierarchy: Tier 1, Swedish: Upholstered furniture, bookcases, and multimedia...
Daily Kos: 3am girl prefers Obama answering the... →
squashed: scotth: Turns out the young girl featured in Hillary’s disgusting, fear-inducing 3am ad (which, notably, has 1/5 YouTube stars) is now 17 and served as an Obama precinct captain.It’s the little details like this that make life awesome. I love that the girl only realized she was in the ad when she saw it on The Daily Show.
“‘Cause I’d like to see you out in the moonlight, I’d like to...”
– Brad Paisley - “Ticks” Wow, no need to parody country music.
Sports Night
Dan: You know, sometimes it's worth it, taking all the pies in the face. Sometimes, you come through it feeling good.
Casey: Yes.
Dan: And how was your day?
Casey: Sometimes you just stand there, hip-deep in pie.
oxymorons.
The Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta is a provincial right-of-centre party in the Canadian province of Alberta. The party has formed the provincial government, without interruption, since 1971 under premiers Peter Lougheed (1971-1985), Don Getty (1985-1992), Ralph Klein (1992-2006) and Ed Stelmach (2006-present). Wikipedia | Alberta Progressive Conservative Party Guess what? They...
