A Cry for Help

I get very distracted by the fact that a prominent political reporter/cable news talking head from the Washington Post shares a name with a particularly scummy, recently ousted Rhode Island politician; it’s hard to take John Harwood the journalist seriously when all I can think of is John Harwood the douchebag.

I think I’m going to roll out a new category: One-Liners. All the posts will be approximately one line in length. It’s the penultimate expression of “little time”+”blogger” (hopefully we won’t get to the final stage, “blog death by 1,000 non-posting days”). You can add or discuss or whatever, as usual. And Mike, Nightwing, [...]

I just finished watching an episode of West Wing from last season where Toby fixes Social Security for good. And all in one night! I mean, if it’s that simple, what’s with all the blather we’re hearing now? The teevee said it’s easy, it wouldn’t lie now, would it?
More seriously, though, it’s been pretty interesting [...]

Old people.
I said to Em the other day, upon seeing a full page ad in the Sunday paper where AARP sticks up for Social Security, that being right on SS doesn’t make up for going along with the Medicare bill (to me, at least). Well, between me and now some crazy conservative group, the [...]

The headline was like a punch in the gut, Hunter S. Thompson kills himself. An absolute American original.

Since it was in the paper today, I’ll link the article about the book I just happen to be reading right now: Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
I read author Malcolm Gladwell’s previous book last year, which encompassed all manner of social phenomena, from marketing to smoking to crime prevention. His style is engaging, [...]

Since I’ve licked the comment spam problem (seriously, I haven’t had one since the Q), I’ve started to get trackback spam (trackbacks are links from other sites that tell my site they’re talking about me). It hasn’t been nearly as bad, but it’s a pain sometimes. I assumed that it was because of my ingenious [...]

I also have been listening to Motion City Soundtrack’s I Am the Movie which has made me realize I have no idea whether or not it’s good. All this emo-crossover stuff has ruined everything. Usually I just wait until Nightwing gets around to sorting it out for me (I can wait, I have about 300 [...]

I say this as a very peripheral Ani Difranco fan, so I hope no one yells at me. I like her new album Knuckle Down very much. It’s reminiscent of the mid-90s stuff, but not rough and raw. So if you’re into that sort of thing, pick it up.

I posted this last week, based on a few small impressions I had. Thanks to James, the first person to comment whom I have never actually met (an after-the-fact, highly-convenient benchmark thank you), I will now uselessly explain the idea I was trying to convey.
So I saw this picture, which came in a giant book [...]

It’s pretty easy to hate Wal-Mart if you want to. Here’s another reason why:
Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer agreed to pay $135,540 to settle federal charges that it violated child labor laws in Connecticut, Arkansas and New Hampshire. As part of the agreement, revealed yesterday after it was secretly signed in January, the Labor [...]

What is this a picture of?
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Leave a comment with the first thing that comes to mind. I’ll talk about it on Friday.