January 2010
40 posts
cspan video - obama @ gop retreat →
in case you weren’t watching cspan all day. (via @mattyglesias)
updated w/ a couple thoughts:
the c-span.org player seems to be experiencing pretty heavy traffic and is wicked choppy, but the address/q&a/”question time”/whatever this thing was will be re-aired on c-span at 8 pm.
turns out the president can speak pretty damn well without a teleprompter.
obama is...
wonkwonkwonk →
how passing hcr through budget reconciliation would actually work. i love this stuff.
joint chiefs not psyched on repealing dadt →
and despite what many people have been saying today about protocol dictating that they be non-reactive, they had no problem reacting to the promise of “growing consequences” for iran.
tallest man on earth - king of spain
thank you...
alito disagrees →
“with all due deference to separation of powers, last week the supreme court reversed a century of law that i believe will open the floodgates for special interests, including foreign corporations, to spend without limit in our elections.” i’d say that sums it up rather nicely, actually.
“I know it’s an election year. And after last week, it is clear that...”
– President Obama
broken bells - the high road
i very much like...
“These bills are imperfect. Yet they represent a huge step forward in creating a...”
– Leading Health Care Experts Tell House To Pass Senate Health Care Bill | TPMDC
5 > 4, but 59 < 41 - more math with james fallows →
more frustrating numbers for you.
and some more stuff:
an explanation of why yesterday’s citizens united ruling constitutes anti-avoidance of a constitutionality question—certainly seems to me like an activist court went out of its way not to make a narrower ruling—here. and lots of commentary on corporate personhood here. a nice nytimes op-ed that i very much agree with here....
"bind them as a sign upon your hand" →
there was no one on the whole plane who knew what tefillin were? i guess not too many jews on a flight to louisville.
37 > 63 →
41 obstructionist republican senators, representing only 37 percent of the total u.s. population, can derail whatever they want. doesn’t really matter what the other 63 percent of us think.
“nihilists! fuck me. i mean, say what you like about the tenets of national...”
– walter sobchak
go vote today →
this reader of andrew sullivan’s says it better than i ever could.
obama's tora bora? →
andrew sullivan explains why you need to “hold your nose and vote for coakley.”
yes it sucks. yes you have to vote coakley. →
“not voting for coakley is the same as voting for brown. and voting for brown is a very, very bad thing.”
lines go all over the place →
just spent the last 10 minutes staring at this thing, figured i’d share it and then go back to staring at it some more
(via winstonwolfe)
prop 8 trial tracker →
this site has excellent coverage of perry v. schwarzenegger, the case challenging the constitutionality of prop 8, including the extremely comprehensive live blog of day 1 of the trial since the proceedings are not being televised.
“WALTER: In sooth, then, faithful friend, this was a rug of value? Thou wouldst...”
– two gentlemen of lebowski
you really ought to spend your morning reading the entire thing.
(via the daily dish)
"do not fuck with graphic designers" →
“pie charts suck, so be wary of them”
mmm bop -> optimistic →
in which hanson covers radiohead, and makes me uncomfortable in a way i can’t quite describe. (via bri)
Watchdavid bowie - starman - top of the pops 1972
today is bowie’s 63rd birthday.
awesome david bowie trivia: he was born david jones and performed early on as davie jones, but changed his last name to avoid confusion with a certain monkee. this, and other awesomeness, is discussed in bowie’s letter to his first american fan, which he typed himself on his manager’s typewriter in...
ok i guess 2009 wasn't that bad either
so i previously suggested that i wasn’t really into any of the music that came out in 2009. the more i thought about it, the more i realized that was a lie. there was a lot of music i liked.
i didn’t do a top ten list this year. as much as i enjoy other people’s year-end best-of lists, i find creating them myself stressful (mostly because i like music, but not necessarily the...
2010 is going to be great.
so, i wasn’t that psyched on music that came out in 2009. there were some good albums (notably phoenix. and the xx. and the yeah yeah yeahs. and a lot of people liked animal collective but it really just didn’t do much for me. but i digress).
but 2009 doesn’t matter any more. the “aughts” are over, and we are on to a new year. a new year in which ALL OF MY FAVORITE...
freelance whales - generator ^ 2nd floor
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humminglivewires asked: do you have burning questions to ask me?
“I’m quite sure I could beat LeBron James in a game of one on one basketball. The...”
– Lawyers, Guns and Money: Terrorball
hands cold? there's an app for that. →
