Month: August 2008
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Line of the Week: “If McCain wanted a former beauty queen with no experience and a criminal investigation on her record I don’t know why he didn’t just pick his own wife.” (Via MeFi.)
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Yay! The Runners for Obama T-shirts I mentioned before is now available for purchase. There’s no mention of sizing though… I emailed the guy to see if he can at least give me the brand.
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Dubya covers REM’s “It’s the End of the World as We Know It.” Quite possibly the best YouTube video I’ve ever seen. (Link courtesy of Waxy.org.)
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Swoon. Milo “Peter Petrelli” Ventimiglia does an interview with Advocate.com and talks all about his big gay following. Oh, and being shirtless a lot. Bring on Heroes Season 3!
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ObamaTaxCut.com. Barack Obama will cut taxes for over 95% of American families. For our household, we’d be looking at a $2000+ tax cut (adjusting to American dollars). Here’s how they calculate it.
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Pinched: The day I took my family to a soup kitchen. Very powerful essay on what it’s like for the working poor in America. I don’t know how anyone – anyone with less than seven houses, that is – could read that and still think the economy is going A-OK.
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If you enjoyed The King of Kong (as I did), you should check out this Harper’s article (PDF) about Billy Mitchell and his Pac-Man records. The author talks to Billy and Walter Day quite a bit, and follows a Jamaican immigrant named Abdner who tries to break the Ms Pac-Man record. The author was working…
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Man. I got a little blister on my left toe during my 20km run on Sunday, but at least I wasn’t bleeding through my shoes. YIKES. (Note to self: Always wear socks.)
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“Beware the lure of casino carpets.” HA! The first time I ever went to Star City, the Snook told me in all seriousness that the extremely ugly and distracting carpeting was a deliberate choice to “hide the vomit stains.” (Link courtesy of Lynnette.)
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Kevin‘s posting photos from the Democratic National Convention. I wonder if he can hook me up with one of those sweet Obama action figures…