October 2008
62 posts
Watch out for darkie. →
Stay classy, NRCC.
“How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you’re a dead...”
– Patrick Swayze
The Round Mound of Alabama?
Via TNR:
Brown: So are you going to run for governor?
Barkley: I plan on it in 2014.
Brown: You are serious.
Barkley: I am, I can’t screw up Alabama.
Brown: There is no place to go but up in your view?
Barkley: We are number 48 in everything and Arkansas and Mississippi aren’t going anywhere.
If you enjoy watching basketball juuuust a little... →
smalter:
hierarchy:
fatmanatee:
I have mixed feelings about Bill Simmons too. I often enoy reading his columns, but if all it takes to be a “good writer” is to pack your columns with unrelated pop-culture references, then anyone can be a good writer.
This is a terrible column. He doesn’t talk about whether his rankings are based on head-to-head or roto! They’re two different fantasy...
Loco De Amor
For the first time this autumn, I listened to Rei Momo while in the Bay Area.
I love that cd. I still do not know what half the songs are called.
ESPN - ESPN The Magazine →
smalter:
My man Chris Paul is the nicest guy in the league. When guys come to New Orleans, they go straight over to his house to eat, and some even stay over. A lot of dudes have guys from the opposing team over to their mom’s house for a big dinner. That’s great, but back in the day that was unheard of. If your mom was gonna cook for another team’s player, she’s gonna be in that kitchen...
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smalter:
Had my fantasy basketball draft for my non-pay league with my cousins and other people I don’t know. I’m not too happy with the results. My computer is retarded and stopped working part way through the draft, and autodraft went and took a bunch of retarded players. Still, my picks were pretty good. I took Amare with the second pick in the draft. I did not pick Kirk Hinrich, Ben Gordon,...
The Pinochet Principle? →
We’ve already seen Donny boy avoid going to Germany a couple of years ago. We may well see more.
Also the phrase “judicialisation of international politics” strikes me as strange and one really only used by persons who fear the law.
Matt Attack! →
Matt Taibi v. Byron York
Taibi is angrier than John McCain at a presidential debate. Take that New Republic!
Watch Out!
ACORN just ripped a hole in the space-time continuum! The universe is destroyed!
The Presidential Debate
GOVERNMENTACORNHEALTHCAREWILLIAMAYERSMAVERICKREFORM
DEMOCRATSFINANCIALCRISISMIDDLECLASSABORTIONAUTOINDUSTRY
SUPREMECOURTJOETHEPLUMBERFREETRADEAGREEMENTSEDUCATION
BUSHIRAQNUCLEARHOLOCAUSTENERGYINDEPENDENCEOFFSHOREDRILLING
OHIOREPUBLICANSSARAHPALINTAXPOLICYPERSONALRESPONSIBLITY
ENVIRONMENTMIDDLEEASTROEVWADESTOCKMARKETCORPORATIONS
And so it begins...
Walter: ahaha
THERE IS NO LIFE
THERE IS ONLY FANTASY
Moving, but don't actually want to change... →
The Great Derangement?
Walter: is it wrong that i just reread my posts for like the 5th time and laughed hilariously at what i wrote?
me: that's not wrong, it's deranged
“It must be depressing to be Paul Krugman. No matter how well the economy...”
– John Hinderaker, Powerline blog, August 8, 2005. (via Andrew Sullivan)
“I am the famous Wang Hao! I am the world champion! Does it matter if I beat you?”
– ESPN, another sporting scandal.
I can see from where Walter draws his sporting inspiration.
Something in the West Palm Beach water? →
Mark Foley and Tim Mahoney: Two Peas in a Deranged Pod
“The game of professional investment is intolerably boring and over-exacting to...”
– John Maynard Keynes, General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
Litquake 2008
After all the planning, I only attended one event - The Believer reading at The Latin American Club as part of Phase 3 of Litcrawl. Troy Jollymore and Joshua Clover won over the crowd with some very fine readings of their most excellent poetry.
Of the moment?
Will Ayers: A Poem By Mihir Mankad
So throw your hands in the air
and wave ‘em like you just don’t care
about some dude named Will Ayers
who blew shit up when Barack was still in daycare.
Sometimes life ain’t fair
you can’t be president if you’re losing your hair.
This piece was inspired in large part by A Poem by John Cleese
Gold Gold?
Things are going pretty badly when the BBC has a serious article about buying gold in the face of the economic crisis.
My favorite part:
But unlike most other commodities, gold is completely indestructible. All the gold ever mined in the world still exists today - some 161,000 tonnes of it.
“At a White House meeting with his financial wizards—and I mean the term in its...”
– Christopher Hitchens
A Poem By John Cleese
Ode to Sean Hannity
Aping urbanity Oozing with vanity Plump as a manatee Faking humanity Journalistic calamity Intellectual inanity Fox Noise insanity You’re a profanity Hannity
“In a book called “Tall Tales” by Terry Pluto, we learn about the...”
– Bill Simmons on Elgin Baylor
Need More Digits? →
I'm a cuckoo...for CocoPuffs!
Walter: breaking off is misery
i see a wilderness for you and me
punctuated by philosophy
wondering what could've been
Even Faster, No-Knead Bread →
youngna:
Thanks, Mark Bittman
Bread, Mmmm.
Does this come as a surprise? →
This situation is only the tip of a very large iceberg of unwarranted government surveillance into the lives of many American peaceably expressing dissenting opinions regarding the many failed policies of the federal government. Such lists, insofar as they allow for nearly unlimited executive discretion over an increasingly large area of people’s lives, are ripe for abuse; it’s...
Amazing Fact I Learned From Wikipedia Today
Edison, NJ is the first level in the video game Tony Hawk’s Underground.
Supremely Sweet? Enfacto, Bro.
Sonya Labs has got all your Supreme Court decisions covered. More to come.
WatchSpeaks for itself.
Except for Sigur Ros and Bjork
It probably sucks to be from Iceland right now.