"You read this stuff, and you say, 'Why do I have to pretend that these people aren't destroying our country?' " he asks. "So out of that sense of outrage we decided to try to make a little punk rock movie."
29 April 2008
Cusack
War, Inc.
26 April 2008
Key Endorsement for Obama
Superchunk!
Obama has better bands. He wins the good music issue in a landslide.
And Hillary has who? Celine? Elton John?
That says it all.
Seriously whose inaugural balls would rock and whose would suck? This is much more important than who wears flag pins made in China on their lapels.
Obama has better bands. He wins the good music issue in a landslide.
And Hillary has who? Celine? Elton John?
That says it all.
Seriously whose inaugural balls would rock and whose would suck? This is much more important than who wears flag pins made in China on their lapels.
24 April 2008
23 April 2008
Rollercoaster
Clinton = Rove
Nice job, Hill!
No more.
Sick. sick. sick.
The vanity of the Clintons. If they can't have it, no one (at least no Democrat) can. They'd just as soon hand it to their BFF Saint John McCain.
It's worth recalling what this primary came to be about, because of a self-conscious decision by the Clintons to adopt the tactics and politics of the people who persecuted and hounded them in the 1990s. It was indeed in the end about smearing and labeling Obama as a far-left, atheist, elite, pansy Godless snob fraud. That was almost all it came to be about. It was the Clintons' core message and core belief. And if anywhere would have proved its salience, it would surely have been beleaguered and depressed central and western Pennsylvania; and it would surely have worked with white ethnic voters over 50.The Clintons now make me physically ill. There was a point where I think I could have voted for her in the general.
No more.
Sick. sick. sick.
The vanity of the Clintons. If they can't have it, no one (at least no Democrat) can. They'd just as soon hand it to their BFF Saint John McCain.
A New Record
Why Our Media Sucks (Still)
Chris Matthews:
Late Update: Another great Matthews' line for the evening, discussing the great cleavage in society -- "African Americans" and "white liberals" vs. "regular people".I am so glad I didn't watch any coverage last night.
Why Our Media Sucks (Again)
Can someone make them just go away?
Our discourse is pathetic.
My brain hurts.
Haha, after all everyone "knows" Obama is the wine track candidate in this race so he must hate waffles and only eat egg whites. Back in the real world, though, Obama's state senate district was a mixed-race, mixed-income urban neighborhood (it's no Chappaqua) not unlike the one I live in. And not to overgeneralize, but the U Street area features plenty of heavy breakfast joints (see Florida Avenue Grill above) and spots like Ben's Chili Bowl and you wouldn't make it very far in local politics in a place like that if you were really so averse to unhealthy eats.Breakfast. F-ing breakfast?!
Our discourse is pathetic.
My brain hurts.
A Good Idea
I doubt I could get away with this though.
You can start your own design shop. You can write a book on programming. You can create a web-based application and make money off it. You can even open your own pet daycare. Is the only thing stopping you this idea that you need a bunch of money first?Although if someone wanted to hand me a billion dollars, that'd be cool.
There’s a lot of talk of billion dollar acquisitions in the media and in blogs, but the truth is those are the minority of businesses. Profitable small businesses exist in every city, owned by people who love what they do. Some of them will make millions of dollars each year – doing what they love, waking up each morning happy to go to work – regardless of which tech blogger ever notices.
Life is too short not to love what you do, and it’s much, much too short to wait around until someone hands you a billion dollars.
18 April 2008
Flag Lapels
I don't wear one either.
Therefore, Matt and I both hate America, but not as much as Jeremiah Wright.
Therefore, Matt and I both hate America, but not as much as Jeremiah Wright.
End The Game
Obama lights up Philly.
Hillary Clinton "is a tenacious campaigner and is a committed public servant," he began. (Boos. I mean, Obama could have said the same thing about Brownie.) But her message, he said, is "that we can't really change the say anything, do anything special interest game of so we might as well choose a candidate who knows how to play the game." He mocked her "kitchen sink strategy." Then he said, "I'm not running to be the president who plays the same old game. I'm running to end the game."
16 April 2008
Simple Answers to Simple Questions
The answer is yes, which is also why our media sucks.
You'll know that if you watched any of the "debate" tonight.
Awful.
They don't even try.
You'll know that if you watched any of the "debate" tonight.
Awful.
They don't even try.
14 April 2008
I Love Lou
Lou on Red Bull.
"I've never had Red Bull in my life, but I've actually seen people at a bar order Red Bull and vodka," Piniella said. "I can't comprehend that. If I had a couple of those things, I'd be like the malt liquor bull (from the old TV commercials) leaving the bar. My lord."
Shocking Development
49 year-old republican calls 46 year-old Barack Obama a boy.
He issues an apology which doesn't really apologize.
I'm shocked, but then as a supporter of the Union in "The War on Northern Aggression", I'm probably just too sensitive and out-of-touch with these benign Southern terms of endearment or quaint customs like slavery.
He issues an apology which doesn't really apologize.
I'm shocked, but then as a supporter of the Union in "The War on Northern Aggression", I'm probably just too sensitive and out-of-touch with these benign Southern terms of endearment or quaint customs like slavery.
Angst Source of the Day
Joe Lieberman.
I.
can't.
stand.
him.
I am trying very hard not to curse right now.
Joe makes it difficult for me to run a family friendly blog.
via Andrew Sullivan and Atrios
I.
can't.
stand.
him.
I am trying very hard not to curse right now.
Joe makes it difficult for me to run a family friendly blog.
via Andrew Sullivan and Atrios
Why Our Media Sucks (Still)
John McCain said nearly the same thing Barack did.
Yet you won't see the media attempt to portray him as an elitist, even though he raised funds at the home of a British Lord.
He's Saint John McCain.
via Oliver Willis
Yet you won't see the media attempt to portray him as an elitist, even though he raised funds at the home of a British Lord.
He's Saint John McCain.
via Oliver Willis
Dear America
I will be sad if you fall for this latest hail mary from Hillary.
If you do, you deserve the President you get.
Don't back down, Barack.
love,
st3veh
If you do, you deserve the President you get.
Don't back down, Barack.
love,
st3veh
04 April 2008
Is There Anybody Reading This Blog?
Sometimes I wonder.
I'd just like to know if this is just me talking to myself or not.
I'm totally fine with that, because if I'm honest, I like what I have to say (most of the time). Plus I really do need some outlet or I may really annoy people more than usual or have to pay for therapy.
Just wondering though.
I'd just like to know if this is just me talking to myself or not.
I'm totally fine with that, because if I'm honest, I like what I have to say (most of the time). Plus I really do need some outlet or I may really annoy people more than usual or have to pay for therapy.
Just wondering though.
McCain = Bush
In case anyone forgot.
Note that it's not just the tag line of McCain's ad -- the whole focus is on the idea that McCain really thinks America is a swell place and Americans are awesome people. Sure, he wants to bankrupt those people and get their kids killed in senseless wars, but he really likes 'em! Not like that whatsisname the Democrats are running.
MLK
The radical.
I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.How far we have fallen.
It's to our detriment that we whitewash all of these valuable ideas from our national memory of King. But the greatest tragedy may be that African Americans have morphed his belief in the power of community into a follow-the-leader obsession. Each King holiday and memorial spawns another round of "Where's Waldo?" pondering over who our new leader is, or should be, or if one exists at all.If anyone spoke King's truth today, how would they be portrayed?
Unavoidable Impatience
The Letter.
We have waited for more than three hundred and forty years for our God-given and constitutional rights. The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jetlike speed toward the goal of political independence, and we still creep at horse-and-buggy pace toward the gaining of a cup of coffee at a lunch counter. I guess it is easy for those who have never felt the stinging darts of segregation to say "wait." But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim; when you have seen hate-filled policemen curse, kick, brutalize, and even kill your black brothers and sisters with impunity; when you see the vast majority of your twenty million Negro brothers smothering in an airtight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society; when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six-year-old daughter why she cannot go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her little eyes when she is told that Funtown is closed to colored children, and see the depressing clouds of inferiority begin to form in her little mental sky, and see her begin to distort her little personality by unconsciously developing a bitterness toward white people; when you have to concoct an answer for a five-year-old son asking in agonizing pathos, "Daddy, why do white people treat colored people so mean?"; when you take a cross-country drive and find it necessary to sleep night after night in the uncomfortable corners of your automobile because no motel will accept you; when you are humiliated day in and day out by nagging signs reading "white" and "colored"; when your first name becomes "nigger" and your middle name becomes "boy" (however old you are) and your last name becomes "John," and when your wife and mother are never given the respected title "Mrs."; when you are harried by day and haunted by night by the fact that you are a Negro, living constantly at tiptoe stance, never quite knowing what to expect next, and plagued with inner fears and outer resentments; when you are forever fighting a degenerating sense of "nobodyness"—then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait. There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over and men are no longer willing to be plunged into an abyss of injustice where they experience the bleakness of corroding despair. I hope, sirs, you can understand our legitimate and unavoidable impatience ...
Early Morning April 4
Let's remember his message about another misguided war.
via Matthew Yglesias
Dissent is not disloyalty.
It wasn't then.
It isn't now.
No matter what they say.
End this war.
No more.
No more.
No more.
via Matthew Yglesias
Dissent is not disloyalty.
It wasn't then.
It isn't now.
No matter what they say.
End this war.
No more.
No more.
No more.
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