April 2008
Clinton didn't pay health insurance bills →
This bodes well… already robbing health insurance to fund “more important things”
How to Win in a Knife Fight →
Karl Rove enlightens and tosses more fuel on the pyre of the Democratic Party. I dislike Rove, but I love his analysis.
Best of Gridiron: Obama, Lynne Cheney and Bush →
From 2006
March 2008
It’s a Small but Changing World After All →
Once and for all establishing Dr. Boom as a mad scientist.
Legislative District Caucus Locations and... →
Delegates are not “pledged” under Party rules to the preference which they were elceted [sic] at the precinct caucus.
Cash-strapped Clinton fails to pay bills →
If she had paid off the $8.7 million in unpaid bills she reported as debt and had not loaned her campaign $5 million, the cash she would have had available at the end of last month to spend on…
Mr. T brought boy out of coma →
Former The A-Team star Mr. T once stunned a sick child’s family by bringing him out of a coma - after doctors begged the actor for help.
marco:
Counting Crows’ new song, Washington...
“Let me tell you something,” Obama said to the crowd. “My economic plan is better...”
– Barack Bowl
Watchzachhale:
Lessig @ UPenn 4 Barack
Schools and testing | Left behind →
The British seem to have the time to cover this… why not the US media? Oh, wait, they’re running around in the News Cycles.
The World's Hardest Game →
I gave up at 8/30 with over 100 deaths. I suck.
Software Engineering Proverbs →
These are generally “Project Completion Tips”
“do it, do it right, do it right now”
– Bobby Riggs as quoted by Jimmy Connors
Practising a Proper Social Demeanour: A Guide To... →
Unless I’m genuinely interested in the person, I tend to ignore the friend request. Still, the friend requests from high school have generally been of the friend-and-ignore variety. They’re cool…
“But we must deplore and, so far as possible, overcome the evils of habitual...”
– Delos Wilcox
Survive-All Fallout Shelter Radio Ads →
Clinton insiders speculate on Richardson's motives... →
What’s significant about the Pelosi and Richardson duet is that both seem to have made a calculation that in the long-brewing tension between party elites and the new grass roots, they’re siding with…
Will Hillary Clinton Listen to Anyone Adivising... →
They are not idiots and they are not blindâthey can read the writing on the wall and do the math as well. But they also believe that, though Clintonâs path to the nomination has narrowed to a…
Best. Muxtape. Evah. →
I’m totally rocking out to “Band Liked By Very Well-Off, Super-Educated Urban White People - Live Performance (Green Benefit For NPR Sponsored By McSweeney’s)”
A Victim Treats His Mugger Right →
Iraqi police in Basra shed their uniforms, kept... →
New Iraq strategy: back out, leave them a note that says when they have sorted their house into a democracy we’ll help them rebuild whatever’s left. Let them have the civil war they are so obviously…
Spending Time in the Classroom - My Day with Ben... →
I’m in Denver for CiTE 2008, eCollege’s user conference. On Thursday I was faced with two choices:
Go to sessions at the conference that were about our Learning Management System
Go see Ben…
“Clinton’s prayer group was part of the Fellowship (or “the...”
– Hillary’s Prayer: Hillary Clinton’s Religion and Politics
● Our collective recent history, online →
In past few years, several prominent US magazines and newspapers have begun to offer their extensive archives online and on DVD. In some cases, this includes material dating back to the 1850s….
“Those who searched at Yahoo and MSN were evenly distributed across income...”
– “Let them use AOL”: upper-class searchers prefer Google
Pre-pixelated clothes for Reality TV shows →
The Coming Digital Presidency →
'Cheese' Heroin Hooking Young Users in Dallas →
“We didn’t know what to do with a 9-year-old in opiate withdrawal…”
● Cold War giants in tiny rooms →
In Arsenals of Folly, Richard Rhodes details the making of the nuclear arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union, with a particular focus on the roles of Ronald Reagan and Mikhail…
Tracking the nukes →
and evidently radioactive cats. Not that I haul around radioactive materials… but still creepy invasive.
Wal-Mart Wants $10 CDs →
Well, I suppose that my interests had to align with WalMart eventually. I suppose that’s not even true, I just buy off AmazonMP3.
Obama Camp Memo on Clinton Saying She “Misspoke” →
“[Hillary Clinton] securing the nomination is certainly possible - but it will...”
– Senior DNC official
“I think it’s just one of those odd things where something gets picked up and...”
– Rick Astley on Rickrolling
“He’s our generation’s J.D. Salinger. He touched a generation and...”
– Kevin Smith
“They honestly thought that because it appeared on the Internet it was true. It...”
– Robert Salisbury, house stripped after Craigslist hoax ad.
Paper Enigma Machine →
Interesting map of media coverage →
Shows growth or contraction as awkwardly shriveled or bloated country maps.
Status on campaign conference call MP3s →
Dave Winer’s on a mission to get all the campaign conference calls out there for people to listen to — primary source spin is always nice to have.
Taming the Beast →
“If Wall Street companies can count on being rescued like banks, then they need to be regulated like banks.” Excellent Krugman essay, and I frequently disagree with him. Tempted to hand this to my…