Hey, look at this! The Library of Congress has put 3,000 photos up on Flickr. Now that’s a public service! There are baseball photos, daily life photos, news photos…right now there are two big sets: news photos from the 1910s and color photos from 1930s-1940s. I suspect judging from that categorization that there will be …
Ever wonder what Graham Nash looked like before he joined CSN? He’s singing lead here.
To paraphrase whichever character in The Princess Bride says “I don’t think that word means what you think it means,” I don’t think Mike Huckabee knows what the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause means. From Raw Story’s video clip: “I have opponents in this race who do not want to change the Constitution,” Huckabee told a …
Via Kevin Drum, a theory outlining a nefarious plot to take out Osama bin Laden with an extraordinary agent. For the sake of the person suspected, I really hope it’s true.
Every blog that has linked to this has used a candy/sweetness descriptor, so I’m not gonna do it (always the iconoclast, that’s me; besides, I can’t think of one that’s unused). Anyway, here’s The Battle of Pelennor Fields from The Return of the King, rendered entirely in candy. It’s amazing. (via Avedon)
Do not inadvertently put a plastic grocery bag down on an electric burner, no matter that it’s recently been turned off. The resulting mess will take a while to clean, even with EZ Off.
Susie Madrak had a wonderful dream the other night, full of media takedowns. Huh. The best I’ve done recently is one in which I was being issued a blue book and needed to provide my 1968 U of Arizona matriculation number. The scary thing is that I remembered it correctly. Hers is better; go read …
I don’t have a lot of country music in my music collection, but I do have a few vinyl albums. Nashville Skyline was probably the first pure country album I ever bought, and I’m sure I was surprised when I heard it. I’d bought it because it was a Dylan album (a completist even in …
Well now. Jamison Foser of Media Matters has compiled quite the list of examples of Chris Matthews’ bon mots about Hillary (and, to a lesser extent, other women) over the years. Here’s just a sample: Matthews periodically gets it into his head that the most important question in the world is whether Bill Clinton will …
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I don’t know whether to be relieved that this national ID idea has been given such an extended time for implementation or appalled that our government thought it would really serve the purpose it claims. I’m sure Chertoff thinks it really would diminish the threat of terrorists getting into the country illegally, but I don’t …