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May 30, 2008
For your amusement and edification: John Stewart
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May 26, 2008
Sex and gaming.
10 minutes, but funny and interesting.
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May 23, 2008
It's the start of the Memorial Day weekend
Pick a war and go memorialize it. World War 1 was pretty bad. It's worth a ponder or two.
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May 22, 2008
Your world in Charts
more graph humor and song chart memes
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May 21, 2008
Ted Kennedy:
Things he succeeded at:
- the Civil Rights Act of 1964
- the Voting Rights Act
- Medicare
- Medicaid
- Head Start
- Legal Services
- the War on Poverty
- environmental legislation
- OSHA
- bringing down Richard Nixon on the Watergate investigations
- ending the Vietnam War
- stopping military aid to the Contras in Central America
- the Martin Luther King holiday
- stopping Robert Bork
- the increases in the minimum wage
- Family and Medical Leave
- National Service
- S-CHIP
Things he tried really hard to do, but couldn't quite pull off:
- universal health care
- labor law reform
- stopping the Iraq war
(List gleefully stolen from: here)
Ted Kennedy is sort of like the Democratic Jiminy Cricket-- If Jiminy knew how to kick parliamentary ass.
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May 20, 2008
Why is Obama doing so well?
He has created and tapped new sources of money. But you knew that.
What you may not have known is how Clinton made a (actually rather small) strategic mistake and left this tiny window open. The Silicon Valley boys and girls opened it wide and let Obama through. In return, all they seem to want is a more open Network. Sounds like a win...
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May 19, 2008
Real San Francisco Values are less grainy on the video...
This must be a fake, right?
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May 16, 2008
Don't give away the homeworld
Too fantastic for words. Runs long, but if you've ever wanted to see the definitive "appeasement" rebuttal, this is it:
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May 15, 2008
California Supreme Court defends Marriage.
Today at 10:01am (PDT) millions of Californians received calls from their mothers. The statements were varied and multilingual, but the sentiment was the same in each case: your last excuse is gone, I want to watch my child get married.
Let California lead the way...
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May 14, 2008
Congratulations sweetie!
As I type this my Girlfriend is taking the last final of her college career. Today is the first day of the rest of her life. Wish her well in the comments below :)
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May 12, 2008
I want this game...
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May 06, 2008
Don't ask, don't... something?
Since 1994, America has lost approximately 11,000 servicemembers because they violated the "don't tell" half of our policy on homosexuality in the military. How many servicemembers have been discharged for violating the "don't ask" part? I would guess very, very few. Perhaps none.
Posted by Andrew at 07:15 AM | Comments (0)
May 05, 2008
The world's least-funny knock-knock joke
How many Americans die each year because they can't afford healthcare?
Disgraceful.
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May 03, 2008
Ironman!
Rocks. Seriously, Ironman rocks. Go see it.
Ok, the gender politics are... off. There isn't a single woman in the movie who isn't a sex object. Updating a comic from the 1960s is going to be fraught with that sort of difficulty, so if they'd at least nodded in the direction of solving that problem, I would have given them a pass. They didn't even try...
More interestingly: I've been finding "realistic" combat sequences in recent movies to be lacking. When I watch them I am constantly pulled out of the scene and think "this is a movie". My guess is that having seen actual combat live on CNN, I know what war looks like-- and it isn't what shows up on the big screen.
Anyway: go see Ironman. If you can shut your brain off, it's good fun. And stick around through the closing credits...
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May 01, 2008
They pulled it off...
In protest of the Iraq war, the West Coast ports were shut down. More effective than any march, this sort of direct action flexes the muscles of the union in a manner I've never seen in my lifetime.
I am tempted to call it "odd" that this has been planned forever, and yet has gotten virtually no attention. Instead I'll call it "shennanigans by the capitalists". I know, we're not supposed to think in those terms. If anyone can tell me a good reason that a major war protest would go virtually uncovered by the media that _doesn't_ mean "class warfare", please let me know!
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