Doctor, to Ambrose: \”You are so much less than the best of humanity!\” While I enjoyed \”Cold Blood\” much more than part one, \”The Hungry Earth,\” I don\’t have much to say about it save for the final scene. After Ambrose kills Alaya, negotiations between the Silurians and the humans fall apart. The Doctor forces the Silurians to go back into hibernation for another 1,000 years and hopes that when they wake, the humans will be ready to make peace. The Doctor, Amy, and Rory rush back to the surface to escape in the TARDIS, but when...
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 Ross \”Do That Thing\” Douthat, who in his...
Continue reading...Morning Constitutional – Monday, 21 June 2010
Good morning, everybody. As I write this, Portugal just creamed PRK by a whopping 7-0. Sweet Jesus. Anyways, here\’s your morning constitutional: A worker on the Deepwater Horizon rig claims to have told BP that he found a leak on the rig just weeks before the explosion. Russia has begun to cut off natural gas to its neighbor Belarus, saying Belarus owes it over $200m. Poland\’s presidential election is heading into a runoff, after no candidate was able to win enough votes to win outright. In Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos easily won the presidency yesterday with 69...
Continue reading...Poem of the Week
You Reading This, Be Ready Starting here, what do you want to remember? How sunlight creeps along a shining floor? What scent of old wood hovers, what softened sound from outside fills the air? Will you ever bring a better gift for the world than the breathing respect that you carry wherever you go right now? Are you waiting for time to show you some better thoughts? When you turn around, starting here, lift this new glimpse that you found; carry into evening all that you want from this day. This interval you spent reading this or...
Continue reading...Uh-oh, SpaghettiOs
If you’ve got some SpaghettiOs in your pantry, you may want to take a look at this: Campbell Soup Co. is recalling nearly 15 million pounds of canned SpaghettiOs with meatballs because of possible under-processing, the U.S. agriculture department said. The recall includes 14.75-ounce cans with a use-by date between June 2010 and December 2011 of three varieties of the product: “SpaghettiOs with Meatballs,” “SpaghettiOs A to Z with Meatballs” and “SpaghettiOs Fun Shapes with Meatballs (Cars).” Consumers who have purchased those products with a plant code of “EST4K” should not eat them and should return them...
Continue reading...Ron Artest wants to the thank some people
Sure, game seven last night between the Lakers and Celtics in the NBA Finals was probably a good game. The five seconds I managed to watch at the bar sure looked like it. But, what was really phenomenal is Ron Artest’s post-game interview. Seriously, in less than a minute, he’s capable of thanking: everybody in his hood, the World Wide Warriors, his wife, his family, his kids, everybody, and, of course, his psychiatrist (she really helped him relax). And, on top of that, gets to plug his new single. Because, really, what’s a shout-out if you can’t...
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 Roger \”Life of the Party\” Cohen, who in...
Continue reading...Morning Constitutional – Friday, June 18 2010
Good morning, everybody. The NBA has a new champion. Now, your morning constitutional: The interim leader of Kyrgyzstan says that the toll of the recent ethnic violence could be as much as ten times worst than previously believed. Democrats, while trying to restrict special interests, make loopholes for special interests. Liberal Senators threaten to abandon energy legislation if it does not include a price on carbon. Slate: Pick up just about any novel and you\’ll find a throwaway reference to a dog, barking in the distance. North Korea fans actually Chinese actors. A Republican-led filibuster was successful...
Continue reading...More transparency… unless you like guns.
Today in hypocrisy: finally, a cause liberal and conservative interest groups can rally together in opposition to. I’m no expert by any means on campaign finance, but here’s how I understand the story thus far: Supreme Court issues ruling lifting restrictions on campaign funding by corporations. General outcry ensues. Congress resolves to Do Something. Something takes the form of the DISCLOSE Act, which would require corporations, unions, and non-profits to report their top donors (defined as anyone who gives them $1,000). It also would require organizations to identify themselves in ads, and the orgs’ top donors to...
Continue reading...Dale Peterson wants you to vote for somebody else
Dale Peterson, who we mentioned earlier during his race for Alabama Agriculture Commissioner, may not have won the primary, but he is not going gentle into that good night. Nay, he’s got somebody he wants the fine folk of Alabama to vote for: John McMillan. As long as it\’s not dummy Dorman Grace. And he really “blasts” the point home. Don’t you wish you had Dale Peterson watching your back?
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