December 2009
80 posts
“Alaska, the particular reality from which Palin hails, is so little known by...”
– Jonathan Raban’s review of Going Rogue in the new issue of the New York Review of Books is nothing short of devastating.
“Fixing the problem doesn’t mean voting out the feckless Democrats or the...”
– Lawrence Lessig (via squashed)
The Bitch is Back →
2009’s most influential author is a mirthless Russian-American who loves money, hates God, and swings a gigantic dick. She died in 1982, but her spawn soldier on. And the Great Recession is all their fault
“But no one wakes up one morning as a drug fiend, shifting hopelessly through the...”
– Via Commes des Fuckdown
Just had this conversation with a high school...
Me: hope things are going well
David: yeah, for the most part they are
David: found out kid 2 is going to be anouther girl...
David: so anouther shot gun I need to buy...
Dress Codes - Youthful Rebellion - Dressing for... →
“There’s a sense that this return to style, or to a consciousness of how you look, is an attempt by young men to recover a set of values that were at one point very much present in American society and then lost,” he said. “It strikes me as being of a piece with the way young people buy their coffee or their food: payi…ng attention to authenticity or quality, and to whether something...
Watchcodykniffen:
Senator Al Franken calls out John Thune for lying on the Senate floor.
Give ‘em hell, Al.
“We’re entitled to our own opinions, but we are not entitled to our own facts.”
“And now here we are. Right here in your own backyard, an American company...”
– Fake Steve Jobs to Randall Stephenson of AT&T
“They get onstage and you think, ‘That guy spent an hour doing his hair....”
– Andy Falkous
WatchMy favorite bloggers on either end of the political spectrum, Matthew Yglesias and Ross Douthat, duke it out on bloggingheads.tv.
Welcome To The Lieberman Administration →
La Quiete - Cosa Sei Disposto A Perdere
Great...
Timbaland should go back to making more beats like Ginuwine - Pony.
“Can you make a mirror in photoshop?”
– This one is great if only because you can’t help but wonder how this person survived childhood.
The Obama Doctrine →
Slate’s John Dickerson comes to a slightly different conclusion than my analysis a few weeks ago. Though one of the key elements is the same - that it is one thing to press for peace, and entirely another to recognize human fallibility. We are imperfect, and according to Obama, the notion of a perfect peace is a goal we must achieve through institutions, not isolation.