Santana speaks for me
Not for the first time.
Not for the first time.
Once more to all my friends who at some point liked this bastard: Isn’t this a bit much?
To all my friends who voted for, and argued for, this bastard: Let’s not do that again, OK?
I have been known to deny that TV “journalism” can ever resemble the real thing more than superficially. I was wrong. The guy in this interview is a real reporter, there’s no getting around it. Watch the moment at about 6:28 where he earns back a chunk of the credibility that his idiot colleagues in [...]
If you suspect (like me) that the best we can hope for from Obama is Lyndon Johnson without the expletives, and that that’s not nothing, this is for you. This is one op-ed that won’t get in the paper. The best restatement of the high-liberal paleo-Keynesian we’re-all-in-this-together ideology that I’ve seen this century. Complete with [...]
I try not to be surprised when an amateur comes up with a better how-to guide than I’ve done in a while.
This is currently the best site on the web. (It acceded to the position after this one abdicated recently.)
Hear hear.
This site tells you how to get a live human being on the line when you call one of a long list of giant soulless corporations.
This site has an impressively long list of education policy blogs that a person could spend all day looking at. I can’t do that, but I can reprint the list right here for those who are interested: Andrew Pass Barnett Berry Bill Jackson’s Education Blog Board Buzz The Chalkboard Charter Blog Chris Correa Cranky Professor [...]
It’s funny how discussions of child well-being policies seem to attract both the smartest, most compassionate commentators and the most self-absorbed idiots. This one is not an exception.
Craig Murray – Hitting a nerve “I have just checked, and our flat contains nail polish remover, sports drinks, and a variety of household cleaning products. Also MP3 players and mobile phones. So the authorities could announce – as they have whispered to the media in this case – that potential ingredients of a liquid [...]
I’m glad that this guy still reads Newsweek, so the rest of us don’t have to.
I point out this new culture site, even though it is a little off-topic here, for the obvious reasons.
Let me paraphrase Lyndon Johnson and say Alexander Cockburn is wacko, but he’s our wacko. Here he weighs in, perhaps a little more heavily than necessary, on the Potter iconography and current events: “In the death games played by adults, children are always the pawns.” Courtesy of Gail.
Stephy Says: Aw, Ted, it’s an accident of birth. It could have happened to anybody. (and did, to many others.You all survived and got out.) It might have been a port wine stain in the shape of the crucifixion across your forehead. (Or butt!) Your true friends don’t hold it against you. Though you had [...]
And speaking of geekery: Amen. “I have never ever met a technical person (including me) whom I would trust to know what is really the right thing to do in the long run.” — Linus Torvalds last weekend. If you are interested in software design and stuff like that, you might find this exchange pretty [...]
I’ve never been ashamed of my conservative religious upbringing. I just figured it was something that happens to some people, like rainy weather or a toothache. Today, driving to work and listening to John Ashcroft testifying at the Senate hearings, I realized what it must be like for those people who do feel ashamed. I [...]
Sens. Graham and Shelby have decided to let the CIA take the wrist-slap for that missionary airplane their minions shot down in April. This being the Senate Intelligence Committee, it would be too much to expect them to actually tell the truth — that the whole drugs-and-spies concept is irredeemably corrupt and destructive and needs [...]