January 2012
4 posts
I can understand why Brewer might have felt a bit insecure during her meeting...
– Both sides win in Brewer-Obama tiff - Jan Brewer - Salon.com
How conservatives lie about government -... →
Sounds to me like the president’s plan is designed to address this. But then...
– Rick Santorum’s Anti-College Rant - NYTimes.com
December 2011
8 posts
(via Legal Aid Group Seeks Lost Funding - NBC29 WVIR Charlottesville, VA News, Sports and Weather)
But although Blue Ridge served more than 2,500 people in 2011, the agency turned...
– Valley’s legal services facing big cuts | The News Leader | newsleader.com
It got me thinking about the song in its entirety and what I’ve determined is...
– The most insufferable Christmas song ever - Christmas - Salon.com
5. A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking to drink. 6. The bar was...
– McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: List: Seven Bar Jokes Involving Grammar and Punctuation.
November 2011
11 posts
Those who are going to be over 21 on November 12th, I ask for your support.
– GOP presidential contender Rick Perry, misstating the U.S. voting age, which is 18. Also, the 2012 election is on November 6. (via officialssay)
Enforcement of Protective Orders is a Human Right →
“Through research and actually listening to the music and I immediately...
– Rhapsody in Bloom Announced as 2012 Apple Blossom Festival
With the most recent crash and recession, young people have gone from a...
– Old people getting richer, young people getting poorer - Great Recession - Salon.com
The so-called minibus bill passed by the Senate recently includes $396 million...
– This Week: Legal Services Corp Budget Debate - Law Blog - WSJ
The Once and Future Way to Run - NYTimes.com →
When you’re stalking barefoot runners, camouflage helps. “Some of them get kind of prancy when they notice you filming,” Peter Larson says. “They put on this notion of what they think barefoot running should be. It looks weird.” Larson, an evolutionary biologist at Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire who has been on the barefoot beat for two years now, is also a stickler about his timing. “You...
Ex-Google Reader Product Manager Posts Scathing... →
Main Street to Silicon Valley: We don’t even... →
Do you think the tech savvy often underestimate the average user’s understanding of even basic products and devices? Yes! Yes, a thousand-times, YES.
It’s as if whoever made the update did so without ever actually using the...
– A Better Way to Share Posts in Google Reader
The so-called PROTECT IP act, sequel to the much-criticized COICA, is under fire...
– Kill Switch
Animated Perry speech in N.H. generates buzz →
Seriously, was he drunk?
October 2011
2 posts
September 2011
10 posts
Too much law amounts to no law at all: when legal doctrine makes everyone an...
– The collapse of American justice - Hoarding - Salon.com
I hear all this, you know, ‘Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever,’”...
– Elizabeth Warren On ‘Class Warfare’: There Is Nobody Who Got Rich On His Own (VIDEO) | Election 2012
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Campaign Against Sharia Law a Threat to Indian... →
To those who say that our expenditures for Public Works and other means for...
– Why we need a bold new jobs program - War Room - Salon.com
August 2011
2 posts
NH witches decry portrayal in HBO’s “True Blood” Christopher...
– Open up New Hampshire - Places to go and things to do in the Granite State
July 2011
1 post
Devastating class warfare not good enough for... →
June 2011
3 posts
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At the same time the university boomed, marginal tax rates for high earners...
– Robert Nozick, father of libertarianism: Even he gave up on the movement he inspired. - By Stephen Metcalf - Slate Magazine
The more you watch this show, the more it ceases to seem a mere portrait of a...
– “Deadliest Catch’s” captivating tale of addiction - Deadliest Catch | Discovery Channel Deadliest Catch - Salon.com
May 2011
5 posts
Herman Cain may wish, as he said, that “we don’t need to rewrite the...
– Why Herman Cain and the GOP keep misquoting the Constitution - War Room - Salon.com
President Obama: Appoint Elizabeth Warren to Lead... →
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"USA! USA!" is the wrong response - War Room -... →
But routine increases in defense and domestic spending account for only about 15...
– Running in the red: How the U.S., on the road to surplus, detoured to massive debt - The Washington Post
April 2011
7 posts
Donald Trump is still playing to suspicions of President Obama. And it’s no...
– Silliness and Sleight of Hand - NYTimes.com
Tom Haverfoods →
Why airports' "liquid and gels" rules are absurd -... →
Separately, perhaps, from all of this, we need to acknowledge the reality, however unfortunate, that no amount of airport security is going to stop a terrorist who is clever and resourceful enough. There will always be a way to circumvent whatever measures we put in place, no matter how draconian. What “airport security” really means is stopping terrorists in the planning stage, long...
(via Safe and Sexy: The Persona Project | Need To Know | PBS Video)