February 2010
52 posts
Hahaha. Taylor Swift.
Seriously, music industry, you deserve each other, and that probably fairly is, for once, your Album of the Year. If you’d given it to that DMB thing I would have exploded something here. At least she was genuinely happy about it (I mean, she played that well), so that helps you all in the long run as you throw yourselves a massively expensive show and then spend 10 minutes in the middle...
January 2010
16 posts
Watchnewsweek:andrewromano:
President Obama sparred with House Republicans today. Live. Without a teleprompter. For 90 straight minutes. Ambinder reports:
Accepting the invitation to speak at the House GOP retreat may turn out to be the smartest decision the White House has made in months. Debating a law professor is kind of foolish: the Republican House Caucus has managed to turn Obama’s weakness...
“It took jurors 37 minutes on Friday to convict Scott Roeder, an abortion...”
– You know it’s been an utterly shite week when I can honestly tell you my response to this, “Jury Reaches Guilty Verdict in Murder of Abortion Doctor” is Thank Freakin’ God. I really can’t be in this wack country if it’s going to be ok to go into a church, walk up...
“…it seemed a little weird, like a scene from some postapocalyptic movie in...”
– — This frickin’ guy.
“that’s how we experience politics: in victory or defeat, we retreat to our insular, private forums, in the company of our own amen choruses.”
Nails it!! The State of Our Disunion
“An extremely common mistake made by great designers and great programmers who...”
– When is Dustin Curtis not hitting it out of the park, already? Geez.
WatchThere is nothing crazy better than when people are captured on video being their total, perfect selves, for shoving back in their faces approximately 5.5 years later when they are being their total, disaster selves. Oh, Jay. Coco! Come back, New York needs you. Internet-a-rama, let’s do it!
“Marriage is one of the basic building blocks of our neighborhoods and our...”
– Ted Olson, making the conservative case for gay marriage. (via newsweek) It is a rip in the continuum when I have to take a Ted Olson argument and shove it Obama’s face, but apparently, I’magonna have to.
Two of my favorite things about my mom:
#1 phone convo, 12-30-09
MOM: Oh honey, last week I saw the funniest thing, you have to see it. It’s from Saturday Night Live. These two guys, it’s a song about making a Christmas gift for their girlfriends, it’s called ‘Junk in a Box.’ They want to cu-
ME: You mean, ‘Dick in a Box.’ It’s called ‘Dick in a Box.’
MOM: No, I saw it...
