Threat Level
Indian Train
Ahh, Portishead. Yes, it’s a new album. Yes, it’s good. Yes, it sounds a lot like they’re last/other album.
“Hillary Clinton enthusiastically picked a filly named Eight Belles to win the Kentucky Derby and compared herself to the horse. Eight Belles finished second. The winner was the favorite, Big Brown. Eight Belles collapsed immediately after crossing the finish line, and was euthanized shortly thereafter.”
Wright gave a speech to the NCAAP, it’s actually pretty good. He’s actually a pretty good speaker and even funny sometimes. He speaks four languages. Who knew.
So I was reading the news and there was talk about Wright giving a controversial speech which caused Obama to disavow his comments. Is this it? This can’t be [...]
I love it.
Amazing. Planned obsolescence. 99% of the stuff we produce ends up in a landfill within 6 months. WTF, that’s complete insanity, if not immoral. For every 1 trash can full of stuff we throw away, 70 trash cans full of waste was created to make that stuff. The US has 5% of the world’s population [...]
I’ve heard of this place in the ocean where all of our plastic supposedly goes but I’d never really seen pictures of it so I wasn’t sure it was real. These guys thought the same thing so they got a boat and went out there and made a pretty good documentary about it. Gross. My [...]
The very best thing about Barack Obama - Mark Morford
This is the great revelation: We still got it. The collective unconscious, the deep sense of inner wisdom, that intuitive knowing that borders on a kind of mystical proficiency, where millions of people can actually look beyond rhetoric and media spin and merely feel the presence [...]
The Washington Post has a nice little interactive map of the Electoral College. You can play around with giving each state to either party and view the results.
Interestingly, Obama and Clinton are exactly tied in the number of wins for states that the Post considers swing states. Both have won 5.
Swing State Tally
New Hampshire [...]
The Sound-bytes
The Speech
It’s hard to imagine another politician giving this speech let alone delivering it with such grace. It was truly moving.
On one hand, I don’t really disagree with Jeremiah Wright’s comments. While the majority of Americans may subscribe to the Christian faith, our domestic and foreign policy has never been very “christ-like” or even [...]
Olbermann Slams Clinton in Special Comment: “You Are Campaigning As If Barack Obama Were The Democrat And You Were The Republican”
On one hand I think it’s great that Geraldine Ferraro made those comments so we can see how people and the candidates react. It also helps us all process the issue and collectively move in [...]
To Vilify Obama for his Ability to Inspire is to Ignore the Principal Lesson of the Last Three Decades of American Politics
From 1932 until the mid 1970s — at least in our domestic politics — progressive values provided the dominant frame for mainstream political debate. They defined political “common sense.” By 1980, the Reagan revolution [...]
Hillary’s web site today, in addition to her “Help Make History” banner which was taken down during the race spat, sports a new banner reading “You Did It,” referring to raising $10M since Super Tuesday. (Her web site doesn’t mention if that includes the $5M she gave herself (great spin, btw), but it does say [...]
Just some cool youtube stuff I found on gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle.com.
The Church of the Future is my favorite.
“The blue state/red state division is better expressed in terms of the persistent conflicts between the big cities and their rural hinterlands, over land use, water rights and environmental, class and cultural issues. Red states are simply those where the country can outvote the urban centres, while in blue states the opposite is true.“
Interesting. Reading [...]
Poll: Bullshit Is Most Important Issue For 2008 Voters
Walking to my grocery store yesterday I noticed Barack Obama on the cover of the San Francisco Bay Guardian, a local free weekly paper. I normally don’t read the Guardian but thought I would pick it up to read their endorsement of Barack. I was surprised. What a crappy endorsement. They support him for all [...]
I loooove this little clip.
To paraphrase Ron Paul’s response, “Are you an idiot? Why are you asking a presidential candidate such a fucking moronic question. Sounds like a better question for your PR team. Who the fuck cares?” Course Ron Paul’s answer was much better than mine.
And I love his response to the question about [...]