Today we here are in mourning. All flags are at half staff. It's an incredibly powerful image-- especially around the Washington Monument and the flag on top of the White House.

We are in mourning for Teddy, our Lion in the Senate.

Most of you know about the ghost tours business. For those who don't, here: Read more... )

And it is OK.

Every night at approximately midnight, the DC library webpage transcends the bonds that secure it to this plane of existence. It transforms into something else, something beyond, something profound, something beautiful in its maddening, screaming simplicity. It is something OK.

DCLibrary.org is already a labyrinth. The default page ( Read more... )

"Hey, Alex!" I said to my coworker, "did you know that Dianne Feinstein was actually the one who had to identify the bodies of Harvey Milk and the San Francisco mayor after they were murdered? And that it was kind of the event that sparked her political career?"

"Yeah..." Alex said, "have you not seen MilkClearly the answer is no. But let me tell ( Read more... )

This is maybe the most profound statement on the relationship between race, jazz, and America I've ever heard. Ever.

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Start at 5:37 for context, continue through 6:18 to hear Wynton Marsalis blow your freaking mind. Or he did mine, anyway ( Read more... )

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Happy Day, you beautiful, monstrous, awesome globe. Thank you for the Grand Canyon. Thank you for dandelions and three-toed sloths. Thank you for Australia and the Galapagos, for cherry blossoms and apples. Thank you for oxygen, for clouds (all three kinds), for lightening and for fire. Thank you for the ocean. And especially thank you for life.


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Watch to hear Barack Obama say "and then they made him the King of the Wild Things."

I always knew you were awesome. You let me drive this, after all:


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Hey there, buddy.

I know we've had our differences in the past. Like that time I went on a road trip through you, and I made all those jokes about corn and cows? And how you smelled bad? Like corn and cows? And I know that I didn't do an internship with you because I decided that New Hampshire was colder and had more Libertarians. And then I made ( Read more... )

I have realized over the past couple days that this holiday season rivals even Holy Week and the whole November-December thing. Think about it-- we've got Pi Day on 3.14, the Ides of March right after, a one day break to scream "Et tu, Brute" and die a horrible death, we go straight to St. Patrick's Day ( Read more... )