If you’re one of the four-or-so frequent readers of this here blog, chances are you also occasionally check out the New York Times op-ed page. You may even know the names: Thomas “Friedman’s Just Another Word For Nothing Left to Lose” Friedman, Gail “The Colander” Collins, Nicholas “The Dark Crystal” Kristof, &c. Well, I’ve decided to devote a daily feature to these folks, by daily pointing out one line that is either awesome, funny, insightful, intelligent, ridiculous, or utterly divorced from reality. I hope you enjoy. Today\’s is from Roger \”Life of the Party\” Cohen, who in...
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Morning Constitutional – Monday, 14 June 2010
Good morning, everybody. The U.S. and England tied 1-1, and Germany man-handled Australia. Now, your morning constitutional: President Obama will visit the Gulf region on Tuesday and address the nation on television about the Gulf oil spill on Tuesday night. In his address, the president will outline a plan to force BP to create an escrow account to compensate businesses and individuals affected by the oil spill. Over 200 have been killed in southern Kyrgystan in three days of violent clashing between ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbek groups. The U.S. has discovered possibly $1 trillion in mineral deposits...
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It\’s like bringin a knife to a gunfight, pen to a test Your chest in the line of fire witcha thin-ass vest You bringin them Boyz II Men, HOW them boys gon\’ win? – Jay-Z, The Takeover When I moved to Boston, I lived in East Somerville. It\’s a working class neighborhood full of Brazilians and Portuguese, and in any other soccer story, any other match preview, I might write about the sounds and sights of East Somerville in June 2006. But this is a story about tomorrow\’s match, the first US match of this World Cup,...
Continue reading...Morning Constitutional – Friday, 11 June 2010
Good morning, everybody. The Donald wants Lindsay? Now, your morning constitutional: Psst. In case you haven\’t been paying attention: World Cup starts today in South Africa. With at least 17 languages being spoken by the teams, the challenge of enforcing rules against swearing in the World Cup. An effort by Sen. Lisa Murkowski yesterday to block the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating carbon levels failed in the Senate yesterday, further making energy/climate legislation look harder to pass. Researchers double their estimate of how much oil has spilled into the Gulf of Mexico, now believing that over 40,000...
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So, for those of you who have been reading the group previews on the World Cup, I thought I\’d set up a prediction challenge on Yahoo! First prize is a post for you to write on the topic of your choosing, or for one of us to write a post on a topic of your choosing. Anyway, here are the relevant details: Group ID: 26433 Password: thedudeabides The system lets you edit your group stage picks until 5 minutes before kickoff of that particular match, so you only need to pick tomorrow\’s matches now(ish). Sorry that you...
Continue reading...New York Times Columnist Line of the Day
If you’re one of the four-or-so frequent readers of this here blog, chances are you also occasionally check out the New York Times op-ed page. You may even know the names: Thomas “Friedman’s Just Another Word For Nothing Left to Lose” Friedman, Gail “The Colander” Collins, Nicholas “The Dark Crystal” Kristof, &c. Well, I’ve decided to devote a daily feature to these folks, by daily pointing out one line that is either awesome, funny, insightful, intelligent, ridiculous, or utterly divorced from reality. I hope you enjoy. Today\’s from Nicholas \”The Dark Crystal\” Kristof, who in his column...
Continue reading...Morning Constitutional – Wednesday, 9 June 2010
Good morning, everybody. Katy Perry apparently doesn\’t care much for Lady Gaga\’s new video. Now, your morning constitutional: Women swept all the high-profile primaries yesterday, with Blanche Lincoln winning in Arkansas, Meg Whitman and Carly Fiona winning in California, Sharron Angle winning in Nevada, and Nikki Haley heading to a run-off in South Carolina. An actual shocker in results yesterday, however: The Democratic nominee for Senate from South Carolina will be unemployed military veteran Alvin Greene, who beat the presumed winner despite spending nothing on his campaign except for the filing fee and doesn\’t even have a...
Continue reading...New York Times Columnist Line of the Day
If you’re one of the four-or-so frequent readers of this here blog, chances are you also occasionally check out the New York Times op-ed page. You may even know the names: Thomas “Friedman’s Just Another Word For Nothing Left to Lose” Friedman, Gail “The Colander” Collins, Nicholas “The Dark Crystal” Kristof, &c. Well, I’ve decided to devote a daily feature to these folks, by daily pointing out one line that is either awesome, funny, insightful, intelligent, ridiculous, or utterly divorced from reality. I hope you enjoy. Today\’s is from David \”Yawny-Pants\” Brooks, who in his column \”History...
Continue reading...Morning Constitutional – Tuesday, 8 June 2010
Good morning, folks. First ThunderCats, now Voltron\’s coming back. Now, your morning constitutional: A headline I, for one, never thought possible: Obama looking for \’whose ass to kick.\’ Although, the AP\’s is pretty great as well: Obama talks tough on spill; keisters in peril. Iran is defiant in the face of potential sanctions as President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warns that Iran will not agree to talks on its nuclear program if the UN passes sanctions this week. “Fuck my victims. I carried them for twenty years, and now I’m doing 150 years.” Bernie Madoff: class act. A 25-year-old...
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Glen Greenwald is pretty brilliant on Rush Limbaugh giving the marriage horse a fourth go-around: As is so often the case, the Traditional Marriage movement is led by people who discard their wives and get new, younger replacements the way most people change underwear. That’s how so many Americans sit on their sofas next to their second and third spouses, with their step-children and half-siblings surrounding them, and explain — without any recognition of the irony — that they’re against same-sex marriage because they believe the law should only recognize Traditional Marriages. And it’s how Rush Limbaugh can...
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