I was watching Cash Cab with my roommate a few minutes ago, and one of the questions said that Bill Clinton reportedly used Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass to woo both Hillary and Monica Lewinsky. Now, imagining Clinton saying things like “I celebrate myself and sing myself” and “I sound my barbaric yawp over the [...]
Archive for November, 2011
He’s not even in office yet, but James Webb is already kicking ass. When President Bush asked the Democratic Senator-elect from Virginia and former Secretary of the Navy how his son, who is currently serving in Iraq, was doing, Webb told him that “I’d like to get them out of Iraq.” To which the ever [...]
Well, it’s quickly becoming more official: Iraq is in a state of civil war. NBC News finally decided it was appropriate to label the situation such on Monday, and today Colin Powell followed suit. For obvious reasons the Bush administration has avoided such nomenclature, opting instead for statements like this: “a lot of sectarian violence [...]
I’ve been saving up these links for a while now, and Thanksgiving seemed like a good time to unload them, so now that you’re full of turkey but not yet completely wasted, have some fun with these. If I worked for a company that made me sit through this I would quit but not before [...]
What if the Computer Industry Were Run Like the Medical Industry?
Posted: November 22, 2006 in UncategorizedFind out what it would be like here.
Last night, three plainclothes Atlanta policemen shot and killed a 92 year old Kathryn Johnston. They were trying to serve a drug warrant for that address (or so they claim, but I’ve read enough stories like this to suspect it was actually a house down the street, and now the police are trying to save [...]
The Manchester Guardian has published an article by Shane O’Sullivan asking the provocative question “did the CIA kill Bobby Kennedy?” He argues that Sirhan Sirhan, the man convicted of assassinating Kennedy, could not have been the only gunmen because there were more bullet holes in the hotel kitchen than his eight shot revolver could hold, [...]
For the second time in one week, one of my heros has died. Robert Altman, director of such films as M*A*S*H, Nashville, Short Cuts, and Gosford Park died today at the age of 81. Thankfully, the Academy finally honored him before he died by giving him the Lifetime Acheivment Award at this year’s Oscars. Although, [...]
I’ve now seen the Borat movie twice and can highly recommend it, but I will admit that it may be somewhat overhyped. Funniest movie of the year? Yeah, probably. Funniest movie ever? No way! I’ll take Billy Madison over it anyday (I’m not saying Billy Madison is the funniest movie ever, just that it’s funnier [...]
Milton Friedman, recipient of the of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Economics, has died. He was the last surviving founder of the modern libertarian movement and with his death an entire generation passes into history. Although I don’t agree with all the positions he took (e.g. school vouchers, targeted inflation rates, etc.), he was a [...]
