April 2010
16 posts
“Thinking about running for office in the next few years? Taking the leap from...”
– Building Your Base While You’re Getting Ready to Run | Wellstone Action!
Switchblade Comb: Toki Wright – “By the Time I Get... →
LISTEN TO THIS.
via iteeth:
mediation:
Toki Wright updates the Public Enemy classic to go with the Arizona immigration bill.
Remembering Romero: The Murder that Ruptured El... →
Just read this.
nybooks:
Alma Guillermoprieto
I was in Managua, Nicaragua, thirty years ago, recovering from dengue fever, when my editor at The Guardian called from London to say that I should get on the next plane to San Salvador: the Archbishop of El Salvador had been gunned down while saying Mass. I remember laughing at the impossibility of this too literary story—Murder in the Cathedral;...
dwineman:
daveshumka:
Mitch Hedberg’s Jimmy...
“I’ve come to believe that the very coolest people in the world today may be...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - A Church Mary Can Love - NYTimes.com
“It didn’t happen,” said Breitbart, who wasn’t there....”
– Wrong video of health care protest spurs feud over whether crowd yelled racist remarks | Minnesota Public Radio NewsQ
Forgetting, for a moment, that Andrew Breitbart is the “person” (using the word in the most liberal sense) who publicized the awful, manipulative, and highly-edited...
“Fact-checkers are notoriously hateful, and get into their jobs because they are...”
– Max Sparber in Minnpost, on fact-checking Congresswoman Michele Bachmann
“In fact, “pledge allegiance” is what linguists call a hapax...”
– I Pledge Allegiance To Linguistic Obfuscation : NPR
“Hapax Legomenon” was my nickname in high school.
Doctor Octoroc Presents | 8-Bit Dr. Horrible →
More amazing than it deserves to be.
“In industrial towns like Racine, factories have been emptied out, with no...”
– Progressive Wisconsin? State Marked by Empty Factories, Full Prisons - Working In These Times
I’ve been reading and re-reading this article about my hometown and wondering why it needs to be like this.
WatchTron vs. Saul Bass on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
