Thursday

It’s only been two days but SO much has happened.
1. Tuesday’s Florida vote went well by my standards. If I were forced to pick a Republican candidate, McCain would be it, if only it weren’t for his call to maintain the surge. Reason Magazine ran an article back in April warning of the dangers of [...]

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State of the Union

Best liveblogging commentary ever.
lantz: hey man. state of the union much?
sweeney: i know. i could only stand about a half hour of it. “WE WILL HUNT THE ENEMY DOWN….THE STATE OF THE UNION IS STRONG”
sweeney: um, not.
lantz: how about this democratic response
sweeney: oh shit — i’m missing it.
who is it?
lantz: fucking kathleen sebelius
[...]

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Bleh

Happy Saturday.
The South Carolina Democratic primary is today. Hopefully the recent ugliness will subside shortly thereafter.
In other news, I’m sick. I think I have a chest cold–a hacking cough, slight sore throat, and my chest hurts. Yesterday I thought it was just that I’d smoked a bad batch of … tobacco, maybe laced with some [...]

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Thursday Styles

Except by “styles” I mean updates in politics. I’m trying to mix it up lately with content but I just can’t.
1. Another day, another debate. Republicans tonight live from Boca Raton, 9pm eastern, MSNBC. Ready for more candidates’ blood on the dias? The NYT writes that McCain said of Romney, “Never get into a [...]

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Tuesday Night/Wednesday Morning

Just got back from Quiz(z)o and then A-Z’s place and now I’m all juiced up and ready to go. I’ve been meaning to comment on last night’s debate all day, but busy-ness and then anger over not getting a job I would have so clearly rocked kept me down all afternoon. Their loss. I mean [...]

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Halcyon Days

A pre-debate shot before all hell broke lose in a few hours. I like this pic. Makes me think a triumvirate would be nice. Thanks to my man at The Stencil for pointing it out. And good luck packing, dude. (Seems like you just did that.)

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Oil, or Lack Thereof

This morning’s New York Times has an interesting article about the international shortage of oil. Cooking oil, that is. Food issues like this are really the other T’s turf, but since she and E-Rock are en route to Philly today for some QT with the Stromers, I’ll give it a go. She’ll probably weigh in [...]

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Politixxx

Tomorrow’s a big day for the presidential hopefuls, probably the biggest until Feb. 5, which is actually only a few weeks away. This fraught excitement will be maintained, at least around these parts, for the next 11 months.
Tomorrow both the Democratic and Republican mantles will be left in the hands of Nevadans. Gamblers, thieves and [...]

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Going Down to Loosiana

WHOA. Care of Andrew Sullivan:

April 11 and 12 will find the Louisiana Superdome interior turned into a pink and red vagina—“with a big vagina entrance,” [Eve] Ensler said—as a setting for performance events, parties, parades, workshops, wellness and education programs, speakers, even spa treatments, which will be free to residents of New Orleans and the [...]

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Still Got BENergy

Happy Birthday Ben Franklin!
The venerable Benjamin Franklin would have turned 303 today. Living in Philadelphia you’re hit over the head from a young age with Ben Franklin’s preeminence as the foremost founding father. There’s his house—Franklin Court on Market Street, the Ben Franklin Parkway, the Ben Franklin Bridge, Franklin Square, the Franklin Institute, Ben Franklin’s [...]

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Year of the Rat

I arrived at work today to find that our building has been hit by the union rat. For you non-NYers, the union rat is a 20 ft. tall inflatable rat that unions erect outside of businesses that they want to embarrass. Usually this is because the businesses use non-union labor, pay low wages, etc… I’m [...]

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Steve Jobs Rocks Tech World Again

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Wednesday Mid-morning

1. Nancy Pelosi leads a green, gourmet revolution in the House cafeteria. Reforms include forcing diners to recylce and replacing balogna sandwiches with pan-roasted Chesapeake rockfish, fish sticks with turkey escabeche. I don’t even want to think about what the Republicans are saying, though, I’m sure they like a good piece of brie every now and [...]

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Vegas D’Bate

The Democratic debate from Vegas tonight was markedly different from past debates in both tone and substance. The three of them sitting around that table, all hunkered down and laying off both the attacks and the platitudinous grandstanding, showed that they’re coming round the stretch and really getting serious about winning the nomination and taking [...]

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Michigan

It’s 9:00 and Romney takes Michigan. Only 10% of the precincts are reporting so far, but Romney’s the projected winner, McCain comes in second, Huckabee third. I guess Romney won’t die that easily. Typical evil droid.

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This and That

All the headlines are kind of boring lately—all played out Hillary-Obama race remarks and Bush’s too-little, too-late trip to Israel and the rest of the Mid-East. Although, I like picturing Bush visiting King Abdullah’s Saudi Arabian ranch
(I wonder if they’re driving around in a pickup, clearing brush). Anyway, here’s a few fun things I’ve [...]

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Beef

 
I awoke this morning to some disturbing news on the cloned food front. The Washington Post is reporting that the FDA has decided that cloned meat and dairy products are as safe as those from normal animals. The 968-page report detailing the FDA’s decision was of course based on very scientific data. Although there are [...]

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No Time for Moral Dilemmas

I’ve spent much of this week working at part-time job. I’ve been scheduled for the early shift, starting at 7:30 am, which is actually the only moderately early shift, since the place opens at 5:30 am. Ungodly.
During my half hour lunch breaks, in which I barely have time to eat my peanut butter sandwich on [...]

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Mixmaster Mike

Philly’s newly minted Mayor Michael Nutter delivered an inaugural rap yesterday. Please please check out the Youtube.
Why do politicians do this? Remember the Carl Rove rapping freakshow?
Shuuuuuuuudder.

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For the Woman Who Has Everything

Ew.
NORRISTOWN, Pa. – A western Pennsylvania man who mailed a bloody cow’s head to his wife’s lover has been sentenced to probation and community service.
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The victim received a package containing a cow’s head with a puncture wound in its skull on June 1, 2006.
Police said Fife obtained the cow’s head from a butcher shop, claiming [...]

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