August 2008
19 posts
“Bob Barr now has an opening with voters who are both racist and sexist.”
– John Tabin
“Biden makes a great VP pick for the same reason his Presidential campaigns never...”
– James Poulos
Click the ball to change its color →
Pretty cool and simple Flash game.
mygazines.com →
Napster for magazines. People scan and upload the latest issues of magazines. You get to read them on the site. Completely illegal. Enjoy it while it lasts.
“Libertarianism is a politics born to be subsidized.”
– Thomas Frank My question: If you compare the funding aimed at all the left- (and crazy-right- ) wing groups out there to the “subsidies” received by the few libertarian groups, how massive would the disproportion be?
Current TV's Infomania →
Recently I found myself in a hotel room that had a vast number of satellite TV channels and came across an awesome TV show. It’s called Infomania and it’s on Current TV. Current, you might remember, is Al Gore’s start-up cable channel aimed at young people. I’ve never seen Current outside hotel rooms with vast channel line-ups, so it’s a good thing this weekly show is...
Where is Bob? →
“But then, something happened - Bob stopped showing up for work on a regular basis. Several times a week Bob would take a vacation day, a personal day, a sick day. Sometimes he wouldn’t even bother explaining his absence, acting as if spontaneous five-day weekends were simply the norm. And that is how everyone came to wonder - where is Bob?” (via Merlin)
“Blogging is like masturbating into a mirror while you videotape yourself so you...”
– Lewis Black (via glass) (via jimray) (via merlin)
Did McCain Plagiarize His Speech on the Georgia... →
Who says he doesn’t know how to use the internet?
Earlier this year, Slate ran the very entertaining...
McCain's version of social networking →
Sen. John McCain’s campaign is urging supporters to spam blogs and forums with official talking points, according to the Washington Post. … “People who sign up for McCain’s program receive reward points each time they place a favorable comment on one of the listed Web sites (subject to verification by McCain’s webmasters). The points can be traded for prizes, such as...
Clay T. Whitehead, Guide of Policy That Helped... →
I’m so saddened by this news. Whitehead was a graceful and humble man despite his stature and great intelligence. I’m very lucky to have known him and I will miss him.
“Embrace the disingenuous charge of elitism (or, as I prefer to call it,...”
– Merlin Mann
The Dark Knight as an allegory for the war on... →
This is a must-read review of this great movie.
“Congrats. If you hurry, you could be the first couple to exchange your vows via...”
– Berin Szoka, whom I haven’t seen on Twitter in a while.
What goes up...
I’ve appreciated Barack Obama’s penchant to make seemingly courageous statements of patent truths, like opposing the Iraq war in 2002 and recently calling the idea of a gas-tax holiday what it is, a gimmick. So I’m disappointed to hear him now propose a tax on the “windfall profits” of oil companies to pay for $1,000 rebate checks to Americans. How is that not the...
