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Movie Quote Meme
From madame_urushiol, just when I was hoping for a nice meme.
1. Pick 10 of your favorite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Italicize and bold when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie.
5. Looking them up is cheating...
Good luck!- "Not that I mind a slight case of ( Read more... )
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Yes We Can
I'm awfully inspired by Barack Obama's campaign. After eight painful years of GW Bush, nearly fourteen years after the Republicans took over Congress in 1994 and shut down any hope that government would do the right thing, this country needs inspiring. But Barack Obama is more than an inspiring speaker, he's a super-smart guy, and he's got the ( Read more... ) -
Lion in Winter
We had some snow here in DC today. It's wintry mix-ing now, but it was pretty while it lasted. Here's a gorgeous photo I saw on http://www.washingtonpost.com, from the National Zoo:
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All I Really Need to Know About Literature I Learned Years and Years after High-School Graduation
I've just found Will Okun's New York Times blog. He's a schoolteacher in Chicago who was chosen in a contest to travel around Africa with Times columnist Nick Kristof, and now he's back to work and still blogging. Today he writes about how his students fall asleep every time he tries to work on traditional literary classics with them, no matter ( Read more... ) -
While we wait
While we wait for the results of the New Hampshire presidential primary, here is a good wonk by Walter Dellinger from Slate on how voter fraud is a bogus threat and why the Supreme Court should overturn photo ID requirements:
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On the other hand
This guy in Iowa makes a good point about Obama's win in that state (bold and italics mine):( He carried Iowa Democrats, but can he carry the country? ) -
And I'm proud to be an American
This video of Obama's speech last night in Iowa gets me a little weepy. Is that so wrong?
And, in a quiz from kairon13, who knew? I should have been a Chris Dodd supporter, at least until he dropped out last night.
91% Chris Dodd
91% John Edwards
90% Barack Obama
87% Joe Biden
86% Mike Gravel
85% Hillary Clinton
84% Dennis Kucinich
74% Bill Richardson
41% ( Read more... )
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