August 2008
25 posts
“Whoever didn’t get picked for Republican VP today may be a lucky...”
– Alex Castellanos (Republican political consultant)
Hills/Mulgueen’s - Nightingale
Bugger
I cracked my Chemex Coffeemaker. Gloom, dispair, and agony on me. Deep, dark depression. Excessive misery.
“The Democratic party just officially nominated a black man to be its nominee. I...”
– Oliver Willis
viet nam - a set on Flickr →
via Dinosaurs and Robots:
Eric Schwartz has posted and annotated an amazing selection of photos taken during his tour in Vietnam. A profoundly heartbreaking and fascinating personal account of a Marine recon unit in the deepest peril.
CDC measles expert weighs in on vaccinations, so... →
Last week, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control announced that the U.S. has seen more cases of measles than at any time since 1996 in the last six months—and its stories like that that have caught the attention of Amanda Peet, among others concerned about the resurgence. In Europe and the U.K., children are dying of measles. Declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000, as recently as the early...
“Just consider this the Ministry of Truth.”
– Dick Wadhams (Colorado GOP chairman)
He’s describing the war room set up by the GOP in Denver to counter Obama. He nailed it :)
Goodbye Olympics
butterflyeffect:
I will miss you. Sigh.
See you in 4 years.
[winter olympics don’t count, ok?]
The winter olympics are totally awsome because they have curling.
Biden: Second Chance for The Everyman →
Yet the words in that 1988 speech were essentially true, if not original. He was the first Biden to go to college. He did descend from coal miner country. This was a man with the class resentment that comes naturally to being born from below. And as the national media vetting process will disclose in the coming days, after 36 years in the US Senate, he’s still one of the poorest US...
“Joe Biden is the right partner for Barack Obama. His many years of distinguished...”
– Sen. Chuck Hagel (R - Nebraska)
The ‘birds of prey’ have landed at McCain campaign... →
From Steve Benen:
Oddly enough, when I started going through the news this morning, I noticed a story about John McCain criticizing lobbyists, and thought that would have to be the big political story the day. That, of course, was before I noticed that McCain couldn’t keep track of all the houses he owns.
Nevertheless, overshadowed or not, this really is pretty crazy.
Sen. John McCain...
“The reality is they have some investment properties and stuff. It’s not as...”
– Brian Rogers (McCain spokesman)
FAIL
Vermicompost - Wikipedia →
I’ve had my worm bin set up for a few weeks and it’s quite interesting. It’s a great way to get rid of food scraps and other waste. The end product, worm castings (poop), is an excellent soil amendment. This will be particularly beneficial when I get around to setting up a vegetable garden.
Texas school district to let teachers carry guns |... →
vb:
dalasverdugo:
SO SMART!
What’s wrong with allowing teachers to exercise their second ammendment right? Perhaps if schools in general weren’t such bastions of liberalism and pansiness, someone who was legally carrying their personal firearm for just such an occasion would have stopped Virgina Tech from being so horrific. Believe it or not, there are responsible human beings out there.
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McCain: "In The 21st Century Nations Don't Invade... →
I nearly spit coffee everywhere when I saw that. Would have been a shame too, because my Chemex coffeemaker brews a fine cup.
“Oh, sure, it’s athletics; the Olympics showcase the sometimes terrifying...”
– Leitch: Why the Olympics Are the Reality TV of Sports — New York Magazine (via peterwknox)
Leitch doesn’t seem like much of a sports fan to me. Sounds like he watches it, but doesn’t know what it takes to do it.
“I don’t know if you know this. John McCain is looking for someone for vice...”
– John Kerry
(Via Andrew Sullivan)
