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Watching the Movies
My wife and I have taken to watching movies on Netflix streaming, since we are now fully conditioned into the instant gratification society. 24 hours is simply too long to wait to watch what we want to watch. We don't have an actual tv anymore, so watching shows or movies this way has taken its place ( Read more... ) -
What's that sound?
At 11:00 this evening, as the polls closed on the west coast and calling the election for Barack Obama became reasonable, Digby posted the full text of Dr. King's "I have a dream" speech ( Read more... ) -
Barack Obama, WTF?
Did you really just stand up there and say you give Senator McCain credit on the torture issue?
What you should have said is that he doesn't deserve ANY credit for his previous puffery and posturing on the torture issue because when the rubber met the road and it came down to whether he would support or oppose a bill on whether we, as a country ( Read more... ) -
How to Lie with Statistics, the Iraq war version
Darrell Huff would be so proud, general.
General Petraus's anticipated force drawdown timetable a la PowerPoint via Matt Yglesias.
Beautiful descending graphic with a bunch of "?" marks where estimated dates belong.
Ah, I love the smell of propaganda in the morning. -
Ok. Now I feel old.
So this morning, I'm trolling my usual spate of blogs and run across this entry at Unfogged about BigLaw working conditions.
Ben wolfson writes:From the post, I found this amusing: Neither Kanter (a 2L) nor Segall (a 3L) have yet committed to a big firm. "Have yet" because, you know, it's inevitable.Now, I, of course, found this instantly amusing ( Read more... ) -
The Ugly Anglocentrism of Wikipedia.
After reading mayaknife's post about Conservapedia, I was extremely amused when today I followed this link to wikipedia about the Corn Laws in which I read the following wonderful paragraph:
Note that in proper English, the term "corn" means "grain" (the kernel), and implies the primary grain crop of a country, which in England was wheat, whereas maize is ( Read more... ) -
Tomorrow's Elections
So I've been reading too many political blogs lately. It's making me sad, and angry.
I've also developed a real desire to see the Republicans get their head handed to them tomorrow.
These people have predicted a gain of 30-36 seats for the Democrats in the house and 4-7 in the senate ( Read more... ) -
Free and Fair elections?
alienne posted this as a comment in a thread of ozarque's. Some of my flist already reads ozarque, but I'm nonetheless going to do my part to get this tidbit distributed as widely as possible. Especially to anyone who votes in Ohio [ahem].
1-866-OUR-VOTE ( Read more... ) -
World's Strongest Cat Competition
via debbiethedogged, I see this interesting little video.
Do you think that Japanese people sit around watching snippets from Jackass or South Park on youtube laughing their butts off then shaking their heads and saying "What the hell is wrong with Americans?"
Michael
