May 2009
37 posts
“The harrowing truth remains unchanged from what it was before Cheney emerged...”
– Frank Rich, NYT
“As a civil rights lawyer who practices in the federal courts in the Second...”
– Steve Bergstein (via azspot)
listening to "M.I.A.- Bamboo Banga - " →
@absweetmarie take a listen
I'm starting to hate when the President Speaks...
notthatkindagay:
Because just when my personal approval of his job handling starts to wane, he delivers an awesome speech.
STOP IT! LET ME CRITICIZE YOU!
"I used to tell God I hated him." →
Wednesday First Draft post, on the release today of the 2500-page report by the Irish Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse, detailing decades of systemic horrific child abuse by Catholic religious orders.
Sorry Fareed, but this is bone-headed
I’ve often disagreed with Fareed Zakaria but I’ve always thought what he said was worth listening to, well-thought out and more often than not, compelling. Until now.
This column, The Sky Isn’t Falling, is just removed from reality, especially his blithe overconfidence about influenza and modern public health care, not to mention his dismissive summary of our economic...
“I have quote unquote high profile despite the lesbian stuff, but I get the sense...”
– Sarah Waters on her latest and not-so-gay novel, The Little Stranger
via
(via girlfriendisahomo)
“Galileo would have died eventually anyway.”
– News Hounds: Brian Kilmeade Makes Profound Philosophical Point
Srsly, supergenius, STFU. You’re an idiot.
(via ayse)
listening to "SWEET LITTLE DARLING - Darien... →
Darien Brahms-Portland’s superstar #musicmonday
listening to "(I Can't Seem To) Make You Mine -... →
re-blipping #musicmonday- I regret that I like this so much. [did not see the movie…]
listening to "Cool Is A Curse - The Frotus Caper" →
re-blipping oldies for #musicmonday-I lurve this tune. So wonderfully snotty
listening to "A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off -... →
Fine! Take this instead! #musicmonday
listening to "Madeline - Yo La Tengo" →
sweet song-in my head all day #musicmonday
“The Republican Party is not a long-term party. They don’t think about...”
– Athenae, First-Draft
“Mr. Obama often expressed concern that “democracy could be dangerous,” Mr. Stone...”
– Interesting article re how BHO’s time as a professor of constitutional law and as head of the Harvard Law Review might influence his SCOTUS pick(s)
Weirdly, when I read that quote, my first thought was whether “we” (Dems, progressives, the Left) were “empathetic” to...
“Studies in the 1930s found that 97 percent of people born before 1920 had...”
– Washington Post
““I think everyone is entitled to their own opinion, whether or not it goes...”
– via avocadosalad