with, of course, a bulleted list.
» why no posts? I set aside everything else in my life to concentrate on school. just ask kirk, the man who got our new york apartment sold in the worst recession in fifty years, found us an awesome new house in reading, pa., packed us up and moved [...]
i’m starting school on february 16th.
now to be honest that’s a pretty daunting phrase. it’s been a long time since i stretched my brain in such a formal way. of course people learn constantly, but the thought of memorizing vast stretches of whatever gives me pause, a little bit.
i’m going back to be [...]
this is a facebook meme that’s currently going around. since i can’t leave well enough alone, i modified it to be “24 true random things about me, and one lie”.
i’m a contrarian. so sue me.
anyway, i’m reposting it here, because i’m lazy and because it was fun to write:
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i’ve spent the last month getting absolutely nowhere in my job search.
that’s not really true. i put out a limited number of resumes for carefully targeted positions, followed up on nearly every one strenuously, got some valuable feedback that i incorporated into my search, and generally made some limited progress.
still, no interviews.
to be honest, [...]
sell alaska to the russians for $700 billion.
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while we are nationalizing businesses like aig and fannie mae and freddie mac and bear stearns, why don’t we just get it over with and nationalize the health care industry as well?
it’s ironically amusing to me that the bush administration now walks into the sunset having accomplished the most socialist acquisitions in american history. [...]
time’s take on the controversy surrounding mccain’s comments about prime minister zapatero:
the pain in spain falls mainly on mccain.
classic.
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watched her interview with charlie gibson last night. and i can now unequivocally say that charlie gibson is qualified to be vice president.
sarah palin? not so much.
as kirk and i watched, we kept saying that she sounded like she had been given canned answers to give based on keywords in the question. [...]
on my daily walk at lunchtime (to clear out the cobwebs, get some fresh air, etc.) i passed a new storefront at 57th and 6th in manhattan.
turns out that target has rented four storefronts to sell their designer goods from friday through sunday. they look brilliant, as you’d expect from target. it’s kind [...]
…is contained in this short post (with accompanying picture) by jake tapper:
The McCain campaign tells the media to stop intruding on the private life of the unmarried pregnant 17-year-old daughter of Gov. Sarah Palin while staging a photo op with Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and the 17-year-old’s fiance, Levi Johnston.
talk about have your cake and [...]
here’s a name you may be hearing from in days to come. i learned about her via talking points memo…she has reported on alaska politics in the past and seems to know the lay of the land.
she’s now in wasilla and has a series of posts at the washington independent. she’s doing the thing [...]
in a must-read blog post about the desperately devious inanity of the mccain campaign’s newly-started “war on the media”, joe klein neatly summarizes what’s wrong [so far] with sarah palin:
Palin raised taxes as governor, supported the Bridge to Nowhere before she opposed it, pursued pork-barrel projects as mayor, tried to ban books at the local [...]
for the first time, obama has broken through the 50% support barrier, in gallup and other polls.
a post-convention bounce that will dissipate? maybe. but given that the polling time period includes the beginning of the paling of palin, i’m guessing that 50% may be a new low water mark for obama’s polling.
or at least [...]
i know i did. del martin, pioneer for glbt rights, died last week.
Pioneering lesbian rights activist Del Martin, who married her lifelong partner in June on the first day that same-sex couples here gained that right, has died. She was 87.
Along with six other women, they founded a San Francisco social club for [...]
but i’d imagine that unmarried 17-year-old high school student bristol palin, who was enough of an adult to make the decision to risk pregnancy, was not presented with a range of options and asked what her preference was.
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from the daily show’s jon stewart:
“[Michelle Obama] must prove she loves America. As opposed to Republicans, who everyone knows love America…they just hate half the people living in it.”
—Jon Stewart
thank god we have this man to keep us all sane.
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whoda thunk i’d be typing that this morning? you figured bill clinton would be spot-on. but kerry hit on mccain hard, very hard, and more effectively, concisely, and entertainingly than anyone else i’ve seen thus far. and his self-deprecating humor was a bonus. from the huffington post article on the subject:
Kerry, his [...]
to my mind, she did exactly what she needed to do last night. she explained why she was in the race, she hit on the themes that excited her supporters, and she pivoted all that to believably encourage her supporters to support barack obama.
it was a great speech, and to my mind laid to [...]
the best speeches often happen out of prime time. even though i line up pretty well idealogically with dennis kucinich, i’m too practical to delude myself into thinking that someone like this could ultimately get elected. that’s a sad indictment of my crappy attitude and pessimism, but that’s how i feel.
but man what [...]
andrew sullivan thinks maybe, and he’s the biggest hillary hater on the planet:
Texting the selection of Hillary at 3 am this Saturday morning would be the coolest campaign gimmick of all time.
i’d go even further, and say that given we know that obama has made his choice, if we haven’t heard the pick in time [...]
