It’s like bringin a knife to a gunfight, pen to a testYour chest in the line of fire witcha thin-ass vestYou 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, against England. So it’s...
Continue reading...Well, it's hurricane season
Today marks the beginning of the official hurricane season, and NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center predicts a pretty hectic season: Across the entire Atlantic Basin for the six-month season, which begins June 1, NOAA is projecting a 70 percent probability of the following ranges: 14 to 23 Named Storms (top winds of 39 mph or higher), including: 8 to 14 Hurricanes (top winds of 74 mph or higher), of which: 3 to 7 could be Major Hurricanes (Category 3, 4 or 5; winds of at least 111 mph) “If this outlook holds true, this season could be one...
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 Ain’t Free” 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 Bob \”Day Job\” Hebert, who in his column today \”Our Epic Foolishness,\” writes: For...
Continue reading...Morning Constitutional – Tuesday, 1 June 2010
Good morning, everybody. Spencer behaved a little crazy and moved out. Now, your morning constitutional: Flooding and landslides resulting from Tropical Storm Agatha, the first named storm of the season, has killed over 150 people in Central America. As Carol Browner, the White House energy and climate adviser, calls it the \”probably the biggest environmental disaster we\’ve ever faced in this country,\” BP and the administration warn that the oil spill in the Gulf could very well last until August. Robert Reich: The government should temporarily take over BP\’s U.S. operations to ensure it\’s workign in the...
Continue reading...Gross
Glenn Beck says all the time that people should leave families alone. But, I guess it didn\’t stop him from making fun of Malia Obama on his radio show. Dude, she\’s 11. You\’re making fun of a little girl; that\’s just sick. Via Media Matters, above is some audio, and a partial transcript below: BECK: (imitating Malia) Daddy? Daddy? Daddy, did you plug the hole yet? Daddy? PAT GRAY (co-host): (imitating Obama) No I didn’t, honey. BECK: (imitating Malia) Daddy, I know you’re better than [unintelligible] GRAY: (imitating Obama) Mm-hmm, big country. BECK: (imitating Malia) And I...
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 Ain’t Free” 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\’s great piece \”Hell in the Islamic Republic,\” in...
Continue reading...Morning Constitutional – Friday, 28 May 2010
Good morning, everybody. Could Lady Gaga have…lupus? Now, your morning constitutional: President Obama is visiting Louisiana Friday to assess the ecological disaster caused by the oil spill in the Gulf. U.S. officials and BP believe the spill has been patched, although they will not know for sure for a couple days. The spill is believed to be the worst in U.S. history. And here I thought Rand Paul loved the Constitution. The House of Representatives on Thursday voted for an amendment to a military funding bill to repeal the \”don\’t ask, don\’t tell\” policy banning gays from...
Continue reading...Live-Trolling the Revolution
Tuesday, the GOP rolled out a new website, AmericaSpeakingOut.com, which solicits new ideas from the public and allows this very same public to give the ideas a thumbs-up or thumbs-down. They’re very, very proud and excited about this. “I would expect the ideas that come out of this Web site and the involvement of our members will lead to ideas that we can attempt to implement today,” House Minority Leader John Boehner proclaimed. “We want to continue to offer better solutions to address the problems that America is facing, and we see this as a giant step forward,...
Continue reading...Have you met Les Phillip, the American patriot running for Congress from Alabama?
The newest in our unofficial series where we meet candidates and look at their awesome advertisements, I’d like you to meet Les Phillip, who vows to protect America from enemies both foreign and domestic: Honestly, I thought we were done with the whole “Obama-pallin’-around-with-terrorists” thing, but I guess nothing wins quite like the classics. Like an opening band playing ’80s covers, I guess you’ve got to give the people what they know.
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 Ain’t Free” 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 Gail \”The Colander\” Collins, who in her column \”Who Wants to Elect a Millionaire?\”...
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