Wednesday, October 29, 2008
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Friday, October 17, 2008
The Sentences of Sarah Palin, Diagrammed
(slate)
This post will mean absolutely nothing in 3 weeks. Amen.
Joyce Hatto: The Great Piano Swindle (Intelligent Life)
Rod Williams investigates the biggest fraud in the history of recorded music--the story of how the husband of a dying British classical pianist fooled the critical establishment into acclaiming his wife, Joyce Hatto, as a genius ...
The Things He Carried (Atlantic)
Airport security in America is a sham—“security theater” designed to make travelers feel better and catch stupid terrorists. Smart ones can get through security with fake boarding passes and all manner of prohibited items—as our correspondent did with ease.
Airport security in America is a sham—“security theater” designed to make travelers feel better and catch stupid terrorists. Smart ones can get through security with fake boarding passes and all manner of prohibited items—as our correspondent did with ease.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Jack A: Inventor of the Cowboy Shirt (designobserver)
This is exactly what Jack A had hoped for when he put a silver buckle on the bolo lariat. He had a theory about it. "The bolo is a lot less formal than the conventional European silk necktie. Also, you can wear it with your shirt collars open which makes things more comfortable for a working man.” He had taken the European men's tie, a symbol of wealth, privilege and class authority and had loosened it up, democratized it. Life in Colorado, he felt, was less constrained than life back east or in the Old World and what you wore around your neck should reflect this new culture.
This is exactly what Jack A had hoped for when he put a silver buckle on the bolo lariat. He had a theory about it. "The bolo is a lot less formal than the conventional European silk necktie. Also, you can wear it with your shirt collars open which makes things more comfortable for a working man.” He had taken the European men's tie, a symbol of wealth, privilege and class authority and had loosened it up, democratized it. Life in Colorado, he felt, was less constrained than life back east or in the Old World and what you wore around your neck should reflect this new culture.
As desperation sinks in, Republicans are resorting to dirty voting tricks to keep new voters from registering. In Ohio, justice prevails (nytimes), but be sure that this sort of nonsense will be seen again in other districts.
Washington Post uncovers more Bush Lying: The ever-corrupt, deceitful Bush administration issued a series of secret memos in 2003-4 authorizing torture.
Let's get some hard prison time out of these neocon subhumans this time, huh?
Let's get some hard prison time out of these neocon subhumans this time, huh?
