May 2009
52 posts
“This is what this generation of Democrats does every time: every time they come...”
– Matt Taibbi
Ralph Nader And My Former Boss, Rob Weissman, In... →
Laodicean
Main Entry: La·od·i·ce·an
Pronunciation:\lā-ˌä-də-ˈsē-ən, ˌlā-ō-də-\
Function: adjective
Etymology: from the reproach to the church of the Laodiceans in Rev 3:15–16
Date: 1633
: lukewarm or indifferent in religion or politics — Laodicean noun
The Bruery
Started by a law school grad, The Bruery is making some of the best beers I’ve had as of late. I would recommend the Orchard White in particular.
My Series On The Continuing Saga of Slumdog →
I may sort of stop complaining, but this ought to be just a start.
Watching the UEFA Championship victory ceremony
I can’t help but think European heads of state must have better things to do than just kick it at this match.
“Not one of them, were they alive today, could hope to land the Oxford post —...”
– Michael Deacon on the sordid, silly Oxford poetry chair affair.
Ithaca's Longtime ABC Café to Close Next Month |... →
(via smalter)
NOOOOOOOOOOOO!
That Shot Was Ridiculous
Enough said.
whoaz
smalter:
A guy in Animal Collective is married to a girl in mum.
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The Host Was Awesome, So I'm Looking Foward To... →
Another Slumdog Victory →
Reading this right now. →
My kind of book - all pictures - some drawn, some photographed.
Will Obama...
nominate Norm Coleman to replace Justice Souter on the Supreme Court just to get him to end the Minnesota Senate race that never ends?
And so the slide begins...
According to reports out of Kabul, the Taliban announced that they have waterboarded three U.S. soldiers taken prisoner. The Taliban commander asserted that waterboarding is not torture and does not violate the Geneva Convention or U.S. law. He assured everyone that a medical officer monitored all waterboarding sessions to insure that no permanent damage was done to the soldiers. In addition, he...
“Which circuit are we in?”
– Kathryn Hutchinson, daughter of Judge Diane Wood who is supposedly on the short list to replace Justice Souter, recalling her childhood road trip experiences as compared to those of other children who would ask, “Which state are we in?”
“Easy question! That’s too, too easy Alix! Wow. I appreciate your sweetness...”
– Mr. T in an wide-ranging interview with Bizarre Magazine when asked, “If you could have a magical power, what would it be?”
Mos Def (ft. Slick Rick [though not on this live...
The Pakistan Is Falling! →
But it’s not?
Google Killer? →
More than this, I would hope.
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“With that she produced her new sunglasses. She put them on. They were the...”
– Jeff Atman in “Jeff in Venice, Death in Varnasi”
“SHE SAID SHE LIKED MY JACKET FROM THE MAGAZINE (THE ONE MY BROTHER GOT FOR ME...”
– M.I.A on Oprah and other things
Incite(fright)ful →
SWINE FLU! →
Good thing I don't much like pâté. →
“I listen to it at least 82 times a year.”
– Yao Ming on his “favorite” American song, “The Star-Spangled Banner”
Our Nation's Resident Psuedo-Social Scientist on... →
Insurgents, though, operate in real time. Lawrence hit the Turks, in that stretch in the spring of 1917, nearly every day, because he knew that the more he accelerated the pace of combat the more the war became a battle of endurance—and endurance battles favor the insurgent. “And it happened as the Philistine arose and was drawing near David that David hastened and ran out from the lines toward...
An Extremely Long Profile of Sasha Baron Cohen →
Has the SBC worship already begun?
I recently read an article about Matt Drudge’s reticence; this reminds me of that. Mystery is feeding the beast.
“I’m dying right now,” Mr. Huynh said with a grin to show he was joking, sort of....”
– NYTimes, “Fame on the Half Shell” - May 1, 2009
It kills me that Leah and Nikki are doing well and Hung, who is obviously 10,000 times better than them, is wasting away. However, buying that Rolex and the Prada shoes may have been a bad idea.
Boston/Chicago Game 7
Turned out to be pretty boring.
My Kentucky Derby Prediction
A horse will win.
“According to Orszag, Stiglitz said, “As an economist, I object to imposing...”
