August 2008
McCain may deliver convention speech from disaster... →
robot-heart:
I know that if I lived in an area that was trying to prepare / evacuate in advance of a major national disaster, what I’d really want would be for a presidential candidate to swing by for a campaign appearance, distracting local political officials and drawing down resources of the local public safety agencies. After all, it’ll look good on camera to be engaged with the problem!
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The Smiths - I don’t owe you anything
McCain, Palin, and the Important Difference...
by Robert Reich
At this perilous juncture, America needs boldness. But it does not need to take unnecessary risks. The distinction between boldness and riskiness is critical, as evidenced by the events of the last two days.
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McCain’s choice of vice president is termed “bold” in today’s headlines but it is not at all bold, if we understand boldness to be the equivalent of courageous...
America's Conservatism Assisted Suicide
— via Andrew Sullivan, The Daily Dish
A reader writes:
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I had been reluctant to acknowledge how flawed and dead the conservative movement has become; that’s over now. No more excuses, no more clinging to old visions of rational discourse and principled debate. I really have witnessed the death of conservatism and its replacement by a kind of toxic babbitry which...
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Depeche Mode:
Walking in My Shoes
D.M....
Letter from Jourdon Anderson to Col. P.H. Anderson
Dayton, Ohio, August 7, 1865
To My Old Master, Colonel P.H. Anderson, Big Spring, Tennessee
Sir: I got your letter and was glad to find you had not forgotten Jourdon, and that you wanted me to come back and live with you again, promising to do better for me than anybody else can. I have often felt uneasy about you. I thought the Yankees would have hung you long before this for harboring Rebs...
Jeff Koons crap sucks balls
Well we kinda knew that already, but now Tom Freudenheim of The WSJ seems to agree.
You know I don’t take everything critics say at face value, but I’m happy to see a few had the integrity to denounce Koons.
I can’t imagine what comes after the doggie-shaped gigantic balloons.
(and those didn’t even make it to the Chicago retrospective, had that crap been included, it...
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Tricky:
Hell is Around the Corner
With...
please keep artist credits in reblogged posts
by benhasten :)
(via benhasten)
Has anyone else noticed...
butterflyeffect:
… how it’s impossible to take a screenshot of consecutive tumblr dashboard posts now?
SO BIG.
Shame… I just saw a good one.
I have mixed feelings about the new Tumblr interface too.
Two tricks that make it more tolerable for me:
1) on my laptop, which comes with a screen rotation feature, I use it in portrait mode. (1280 width x 800 height)
2) using Firefox, try the key...
“If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep...”
– Harriet Tubman, quoted by Hillary Rodham Clinton at the Democratic National Convention, Denver 2008
THE ORWELL DIARIES ONLINE →
ayse:
“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to...”
– Jack Kerouac quotes (via bluechameleon)
