First of all, just a silly thing I found. This article's first sentence is in sharp disagreement with its headline. Check your colloquialisms, people ( Read more... )

So Obama won and the House and Senate swung further towards not-stupid. It may still turn out that Franken won as his "loss" to Coleman by 725 votes yesterday became 450 votes today. Who knows what the recount will determine ( Read more... )

So, this has been the most picturesque autumn I can remember. The trees were so vibrant for so long and I'm still finding these great photographs all over. Too bad I never carry a camera. Anyway, if you haven't been out in it I'm sorry to say you've missed something truly amazing. I'd be surprised if I see another year like this.

A strangely large number of discussions have cropped up today about "why you should vote". Man that argument doesn't interest me. It's a lot like defenses against Intelligent Design. I don't consider the ID/non-voters stance worthy of debate. If you don't see the benefit to voting, I don't really want to know you. And I don't feel the need or ( Read more... )

Roughly seven years ago George W Bush explained the motives of the 9/11 hijackers with the phrase "They can't stand freedom". As much as that was a horrible simplification, there was a grain of truth to it. There was a West Wing episode that discussed the only sensible thing W could have meant: that religious extremists abhor the basic tenet of a ( Read more... )

I don't have anything interesting to say, but Katherine does. For instance, in this post she recommends two local (for Minneapolis and St. Paul) restaurants that serve something akin to the nectar of the gods. It's important to note that any restaurants you may like are like prison food compared to these places. Realistically, most other ( Read more... )

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So, McCain is terrible, it is known. And the Republican mantra of "toss it to the free market and hope it swims" that they've been half-heartedly pushing for a decade plus on schools, and more vigorously pushing in profitable industries is, well, roughly the equivalent of throwing an entire generation to the wolves. One generation if you're lucky ( Read more... )

So, rather than repost stuff, I'll just mention that I edited my lyrics meme post to reveal the names of the ones people didn't guess. There are some I'm really surprised nobody got, from such popular (within my circle of friends, anyway) groups as Atmosphere, VNV Nation and Aesop Rock ( Read more... )

I just wrote letters to my representatives that were all variations on this ( Read more... )