Kevin Drum asks: I wonder how many Americans understand that you can’t pass legislation in America with 50% of the votes in Congress? How many of them understand that, outside of budget resolutions, you need 60 votes in the Senate? That a filibuster isn’t a matter of Jimmy Stewart talking himself ragged for hours on [...]
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Good question!
Posted in WM_archive on July 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Girlyman
Posted in WM_archive on July 10, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Oh happy day! Girlyman’s latest CD, Joyful Sign, just showed up from Amazon. The band describes their music as “delicious acoustic harmony-driven gender pop” (emphasis, IMO, on really delicious harmony). I recommend checking out You Were the Lie … awesome!
Web 2.0 for info designers
Posted in Visual on July 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Okay, as an old fart, I’m marginally into Web 2.0 stuff. Not so much the networking stuff (MySpace, LinkedIn, etc), but I have been blogging (on and off) since 2001, I love Flickr, and I have even uploaded a few of my own YouTube videos. But I was recently turned on to Slideshare, and am [...]
Friday cat blogging
Posted in Friday cat blogging on July 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It’s been a while, so thought I’d upload a recent cat pic. BTW, in the “things that make you go huh?” category, I just caught the tail end of Tucker waiting for Hardball to start, and their news guy mentioned today was W’s birthday. He mentioned some other notable birthdays today, including Sylvester Stallone, “of [...]
Learn something new
Posted in WM_archive on July 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Oops. Meant to post this yesterday. But it is deserted here at work, so will indulge in a little on-the-job blogging before leaving early! Hmmm. Apparently I’m either not listening or don’t have a nuance for language. According to John Aravosis, the word “homosexual” is “degrading and offensive and archaic.” I’ve written about this before, [...]
Happy 4th!
Posted in WM_archive on July 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Brass balls
Posted in WM_archive on July 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
From Firedoglake: President Bush, once again throwing the rule of law out in the trash to cater to his rabid base, has commuted Scooter Libby’s prison sentence. … The President has an absolute right to do this. But by commuting the sentence of his former Presidential advisor and the former Number 2 to Dick Cheney [...]
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Weight Maven is written by Beth Mazur. Beth believes that obesity is more symptom than cause and that the real problem is our Western diet -- especially sugar, refined grains, and industrial oils. Beth writes about nutrition, ancestral health & food policy. And cats!
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