February 2009
106 posts
Bicycles get 912 miles per gallon! So excited to learn this, I forgot to add the link: http://tinyurl.com/chdvhq
The ultimate hybrid vehicle: bicycles get 912 miles to the gallon. (via @dailydish)
RT @BAGnewsNotes Michelle Obama uses official WH portrait to pose with slave-owning Thomas Jefferson. http://tinyurl.com/accp6y
RT @ewerickson #CPAC09 Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh on the same day. Best. CPAC. Ever.
In climate-change denial news, the final nails in George Will’s intellectual -dishonesty coffin are loudly pounded here. http://bit.ly/aeCAF
RT @KarlRove — Obama’s “straw man” has a name, it’s spelled R-E-A-G-A-N. (via @davewiner)
For Santa Fe soul, @EmilyMedvec + @carolinefraser; 4foodiefun @nunncookchicago; & my fave conservative antagonist @OpenThreads #followfriday
The scale & scope & tidal force of what’s happening right now politically and economically is so huge and centrifugal. What rough beast etc
Conservatives against Limbaugh et al. and “Happy Meal conservatism: cheap, childish, familiar.” Sign me up. http://tinyurl.com/d778xp
RT Liberals mocking Jindal for, well…just about everything is all the evidence we need that he scares the crap out of them.(via @LissaKay)
At #CPAC audience jeering after Mike Pence’s mention of “universal health care and global climate change.”
Enough #CPAC livestream, there’s a kind of fractal consistency to the wholly unfresh topics so I won’t miss anything haven’t already heard.
At #CPAC, next guy up, I kid you not, starts out by quoting Jimi Hendrix: “Manic depression is touching my soul…”
At #CPAC, guy finishes denouncing deficit, AV guy cues up the Doors: “You know that it would be untrue/You know that I would be a liar…”
No more complaining about the 100% recycled Trader Joe toilet paper & tissue the wife’s insisted we buy for years. http://tinyurl.com/bkbpyo
Republicans are pointing to biology & earth sciences spending as de facto wasteful ‘cause they sound exotic. Kill me now.(via @pourmecoffee)
Tom Forenski’s 25 things news orgs can do to make money. Some are pretty good…. http://bit.ly/142NWd (via @davewiner)
Bought a music CD (new Chris Isaak) for the first time in a very long time; reminded why this wretched nasty plastic packaging needs to die.
“If you start a new job & discover how many key projects & processes yr predecessor screwed up, throwing in the towel might [be tempting].”
RT President Obama renewed the war against cancer! As he said the disease that touches us all. Time 2 focus and fight! (via @lancearmstrong)
So relieved that the president saying the United States does not torture is no will no longer be a lie.
“without exception or equivocation that the United States of America does not torture.” (via @nprpolitics)
RT “For seven years, we have been a nation at war. No longer will we hide its price.” (via @nprpolitics)
Remembering Bush’s 9/20/01 “we will come together” speech (his high point) & its broken promises. Hoping for better days, better politics.
RT watching the #tcot folks freak out at the #nsotu is pretty funny. (via @fbihop)
RT @SantaFeFrank Santa Fe residents Wilson & Plame will be played by Sean Penn & Naomi Watts in “Fair Game” based on Valerie Plame’s autobio
Useful prep for listening to tonight’s presidential speech: George Lakoff’s anatomy of the Obama Code http://tinyurl.com/byvzgf
Authentic or not, the hybrid Beatles outtake of “Revolution” still sounds like a blast of fresh air. http://tinyurl.com/as4lzb
David Brooks’s j’accuse”: White House is “refusing to hire the people who can help the most: agency veterans who are registered lobbyists.”
If you go to a web design site to read advice on color schemes & the site’s colors are blindingly ugly, well, it’s like the GOP on deficits.
The notion that Kate Winslet’s “Extras” Holocaust-Oscar bit doesn’t make her & her win last night even cooler is truly witless.
Denby backlash, cont.: On Amazon 33 1-star reviews & 6 5-star reviews of “Snark” (& one of the 5-stars, ironically, is a snarky fake rave).
Tina Fey & Steve Martin offered a perfect hilarious measure. Four hours straight woulda been: not so much.
When is the Tilda Swinton David Bowie biopic coming out? #oscars
“This has brought the evening to a crashing halt.”
I am Wolverine!
Zeno’s crime reporting: If the police keep getting closer to making an arrest in the Chandra Levy case, will an actual arrest ever happen?
RT @HalSF Requiem for a Dream permanently scarred me. (via @fbihop)
Listening to Bookworm’s David Foster Wallace memorial podcast. Re Infinte Jest: “I wanted to do something about what was sad about America.”
“The Reader” @ hideous DeVargas (Kate Winslet=sublime, Oscar-worthy), back home 2 Gondry-directed “Conchords,” also sublime, no Nazis.
Really really really really really really really really looking forward to Will Ferrell’s 3/14 special on HBO http://tinyurl.com/da9sm2
To clarify: I don’t think David Denby is lower than a James Frey; but am dazzled by his power, as an essayist, to provoke towering annoyance
Meow! In other Denby-is-lower-than-a-James-Frey news, @anamariecox liveblogs her snarky reading of Snark. http://tinyurl.com/cjrkj3
Following up on his evisceration of James Wood, Walter Kirn fillets another New Yorker writer, David Denby http://tinyurl.com/ahg6kn
Any Republicans out there who do pragmatism, inspiration, and compassion? ‘Cuz we’re in big, big trouble - all of us. #tcot
True bipartisan progress - Ds & Rs unite to launch the Congressional Animal Protection Caucus. http://tinyurl.com/dd7dp5 (via @JoeTrippi)
Climate change disgrace: I was a New Yorker fact checker for 8 years. George Will & his enablers @ the WaPo suck. http://tinyurl.com/cla3wu
RT @KBAndersen Jamais Cascio@Art Center sustainability summit says CO2 footprint of all US cheeseburgers equal CO2 emission of all US SUVs.
Lotsa NM politicos, journalists, and activists arriving on Twitter. More scary than Roundhouse webcams & pay-to-play prosecution!
LA Times: Mexico’s drug war is spilling across the border into New Mexico. http://bit.ly/ZVmwc