Archive for June 7th, 2010

Late Night Video — This is Where We Live

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This is 2 years old and was done for the 25th Anniversary of 4th Estate Publishers. I think I may live here already:

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Because I Can… Tweet

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Alas, I have given in and sent my first tweet 2 hours ago (@Pandoradl).  Needless to say, I have provided two hours of amusement for Nemski.  He even has me performing Twitter Tricks… like challenging me to add a photo without asking my kids for help.  And Geek had a chuckle with a joke about […]

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The GOP Needs New Talent

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And I’m not talking politics.  I’m talking about how Republicans love (and steal) the music of liberal performers. Senate candidate Chuck DeVore (R-CA) got burned for using for using altered-lyric version of Don Henley’s “The Boys of Summer” and “All She Wants To Do Is Dance” for his campaign’s Web ads. David Byrne is suing […]

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Monday Open Thread

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The Monday edition of your semi-daily open thread.

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Castle Previews His November Strategy

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In November, Mike Castle plans to bash Chris Coons as a fiscally irresponsible, tax-raising Democrat.

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Don’t Get Mad, Mr. President. Get Even.

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This is the title of Frank Rich’s column from yesterday’s NYT, which, as always, is a Must Read. Like Rich, I find the emphasis on getting some anger from the President a lazy and childish response from the media. A media who perpetually is looking for the ratings-boosting human drama rather than trying to figure out how,exactly, something like this could possibly happen. So instead of trying to figure out how the legendarily dysfunctional Bush-era Minerals Management Service was still largely dysfunctional this far into the Obama Administration, we get plenty of ink on how “angry” the President is.

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