Participating in the Grand Democratic Experiment, one post at a time.
…but I’d feel remiss for not saying anything at all. I first caught wind of Google’s JSConf.eu scholarships-for-females program in a roundabout way. I had just started following Rebecca Murphey’s posts 1 when I saw this tweet. At first I thought very little of it but after seeing Nicole Sullivan’s and then Murphey’s more in-depth […]
A few thoughts as I step away from Theodore Rex: (1) “Teddy” was a really and truly fascinating character and (like him or not) an important figure in American history. (2) Given when I was reading this (i.e., more/less at the height of the health care reform debates of the Obama administration), it gives me […]
At Gawker: Let’s Just Say It: We’re Scared Someone’s Going to Try to Kill Barack Obama – Barack Obama: Now, this guy is carrying a legal weapon, says NBC News’ Ron Allen. The local chief of police has no objections. Open carriage of licensed handguns is legal in New Hampshire, and the man is standing […]
In the August 10, 2009 issue of The New Yorker, Malcolm Gladwell writes the following in his essay “The Courthouse Ring: Atticus Finch and the limits of Southern liberalism“: One of George Orwell’s finest essays takes Charles Dickens to task for his lack of “constructive suggestions.” Dickens was a powerful critic of Victorian England, a […]
Today, our historic election becomes our historic inauguration. Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States. He gave a well-tempered speech, and one that spoke deeply to A. and myself 1, one that stirred more than a few emotions and (hopefully) more than a few into action. MSNBC’s Chris Matthews […]
Via A.: Protest flares up on Facebook over breast-feeding photos: A minirevolt is underway at Facebook after photos of mothers nursing their babies were removed from their personal pages. ¶ More than 58,000 people have joined a Facebook group called “Hey, Facebook, breastfeeding is not obscene!” to complain about the censorship. The article’s comment thread is a […]
Incredible. As Americans, we made history yesterday. We came out to the polls in huge 1 numbers to decisively elect Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States of America. It seems that everyone I know or have spoken with is a-buzz with this news. As I write this, President-Elect Obama has 349 […]
streaming election coverage, touching up pics in Aperture, wishing we had some f#$%&*g whiskey ¶ (Original photo on Flickr.)
I’m thinking that Americans (i.e., “we” and/or “us”) need to get over this bullshit obsession we have with taxes. I’ve been thinking about this recently and I’m convinced that the mythologizing of the Boston Tea Party and that blasted James Otis quote have undermined us from the beginning. I can’t remember an election cycle (Presidential […]
In the midst of all this “Great Bailout of ’08” stuff, I have tried to keep myself contemplative and distant. Economic woes being what they are, they certainly touch on all households when they get to this magnitude but it seemed wise to keep a positive outlook on it 1. Aside from the occasional link and a […]