Why do they try?
Tom Hanks spoofs kids Beauty Pageant
Posted on March 22, 2011 ·
Hilarious, except it’s pretty close to the truth.
“The Next Episode”, Nate Dogg dead at 41
Posted on March 16, 2011 ·
From my teen years through my 20′s Nate Dogg was supplying hooks for the biggest hip-hop hits and underground anthems. “The Next Episode” by Dr. Dre ft. Snoop Dogg, Kurupt, Nate Dogg, was a song that especially framed some great memories in my life including social times during my last year of university (1999-2000) and some [...]
Evan Bayh being Evan Bayh
Posted on March 15, 2011 ·
Ezra Klein is dismayed by Evan Bayh’s life after the US Senate: But Bayh did not return to Indiana to teach. He did not, as he said he was thinking of doing, join a foundation. Rather, he went to the massive law firm McGuire Woods. And who does McGuire Woods work for? “Principal clients served [...]
HuffPo to AOL
Posted on February 8, 2011 ·
Arianna Huffington eponymous blog is being built by AOL. $315 million for 25 milion visitors/month and a brand name in Political commentary. Applause to Huffington the business tycoon. Personally, I try to avoid Huff Po for a variety of reasons: Their science and health sections are full of drivel Too much of their article presentation skews towards controversy churning [...]
Backup Systems
Posted on February 8, 2011 ·
The The Map Room links to an article about tourists that have died in Death Valley of disaster bourne of the absence appropriate supplies, knowledge and preparation exacerbated by faith in the accuracy of their GPS directions. One woman in the Sac Bee article brought her 6 year old son to the aptly named desert where temperatures [...]
Challenger
Posted on January 28, 2011 ·
3rd grade. TVs had been rolled into every classroom so we could all see the school teacher we had learned all about throughout the fall blast off into space right alongside NASA’s finest. I was still of the age where you still loved your teachers, recess was the thrill of the day and astronauts were in [...]
FCIC Report: “avoidable” crisis caused by “greed, ineptitude or both…”
Posted on January 25, 2011 ·
Barry Riholtz at the Big Picture has a succinct breakdown of the FCIC report on the causes of the financial crisis that the majority and minority reports deemed avoidable. It’s not the newest news, but it’s good to have a bipartisan panel run the forensics and tell us what went wrong. No matter what legislators, [...]
Pass on “Friend of Keith”
Posted on January 25, 2011 ·
I am not a “Friend of Keith” just like i was not “with CoCo”. I am a fan of their work, but they don’t need me to stand in passive asynchronous social media solidarity with them. Like Conan, Olbermann’s rich, male, Ivy league educated, white and famous. As far as I know he has his [...]
Attn: Zodiac Crybabies
Posted on January 14, 2011 ·
Wait for a starry night. Pick some stars. Make your own Signs (Any from 1 to as high as you can count). Pick Your own sign. Problem Solved. Then please stop bitching.
Symphony House: “The city is great if it was just less….urban”
Posted on January 8, 2011 ·
Atrios pegged it: “Assholes. Move back to the suburbs.” Because for more than two years, the 32-story Symphony House, the new kid on the block, has been embroiled in a pitched battle with the venerable Jamaican Jerk Hut, the popular eatery two blocks away that has been a South Street mainstay for more than 20 [...]
That never happens at Columbia
Posted on December 18, 2010 ·
Except it does. I adamantly agree with Atrios‘s criticism of the premise of this NY Times article: Columbia Drug Case Isn’t Notable, Except for Address – NYTimes.com. Yes, if the people were just dealing drugs in the surrounding Harlem neighborhoods and they were from Harlem, the case wouldn’t be notable. Except they were dealing drugs on [...]
Be a Santa
Posted on December 15, 2010 ·
Flagged on the DCist: Cesar, 7, wrote for himself and his baby sister. “This year my moom don’t have much money to spend on Christmas gifts so I’m writing to you,” Cesar told Santa. “It would make us very happy if you and your elves would bring us toys and clothes.” There are more letters [...]
Fascinating People
Posted on December 3, 2010 ·
In her official capacity to tell commoners which people were the most fascinating in the last calendar year, Barbara Walters released a commercial letting us know that Betty White made the list. In the ad, Walters asks White “at 88 and three quarters… does one still have sex?” I just found my self thinking: shouldn’t you [...]