Although it has brought us things like the dancing baby and Tweets from Chuck Grassley, what is happening today in Iran would not be possible without the internet and digital media.

Sweet mary mother of god, I passed the New York bar exam. I found this out after no fewer than four hours of sitting in front of my computer, nearly weeping with frustration, hitting the 'Refresh' button on internet explorer in an attempt to get the New York Bar website to load or do something other than show me that swirly circle thing that says ( Read more... )

I wept when Obama won. I did -- big, splashy, little girl tears ran down my face. Are you happy that I cried? Does it make you feel superior ( Read more... )

The McCain campaign has made an uh-oh. Today, the day after the Biden-Palin debate, they released a Washington Post web-ad which says "She killed. It was her evening. She was the star." The thing is, no one had actually said that yet, so in proofs they had just written the quote and attributed it to a "Famous Person". "Famous Person" was  no doubt ( Read more... )

Joe Biden just cornered Sarah Palin into saying that she supports civil unions. Awesome.

Gwen Ifill: So you agree. Wonderful.

And a big smile from Biden.

But Sarah Palin's brand of incoherent folksiness in this debate is abominable. 90 seconds in she had already said "maverick", "Joe Six-pack", and "soccer game". She has also said "fundamentals of the economy" about 20 times, with that glazed deer in the headlights looks in her eyes. Her smart sassy frames can't hide it. It's enough to make me ( Read more... )

Walking around various US cities in the past several weeks, I am consistently amazed by the inability of the people around me to understand the need for a bailout. The attitude I'm seeing may not actually stem from stupidity, but if not, it comes from something damn near it. Call it terminal short-sightedness. The general consensus among people at ( Read more... )

This one is for Mike, who recently had to cut his hair. Mike, I empathize that you had to cut your hair and feel like a tool. So to cheer you up, here is a fancy llama, photographed by Jess Ringel in Peru.


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Because Sarah Palin is female. No wait, hear me out ( Read more... )

The media coverage of Sarah Palin has been abominable, with women commentators gving her the worst of it. Comments about Palin's hotness, her love of hunting, the fishy state trooper firing story, and her husband's membership in the wacky Alaska Independence Party are all fine and in line with the media's tradition of (rightfully) digging into ( Read more... )