Either we just had a small earthquake, or they’re making NyQuil a lot stronger than they used to.
iTunes: “More” by Crystal Method, The from the album Keep Hope Alive (1996, 5:59).
Enthusiastically Ambiverted Hopepunk
Either we just had a small earthquake, or they’re making NyQuil a lot stronger than they used to.
iTunes: “More” by Crystal Method, The from the album Keep Hope Alive (1996, 5:59).
This has been amusing me all morning — ever since I read it, it’ll pop back into my head and I’ll start laughing again.
At the MoveOn.org awards presentation [for Bush in 30 Seconds], Al Franken made the sign-language interpreter crack up by saying solemnly, “I heard Al Franken make fun of deaf people backstage. Let’s kill him.”
That, my friends, is good comedy.
(via Lane)
iTunes: “Pandora’s Aquarium” by Amos, Tori from the album From the Choirgirl Hotel (1998, 4:45).
Lifted directly from BackupBrain:
The mundane buzz today about Carol Moseley Braun will be her dropping her own presidential campaign and supporting Dean. But the real news happened last night on her appearance on The Daily Show. Turns out that Carol’s a total science fiction geek. First she says (in a discussion of Bush’s Mars proposal) “Live long and prosper.” But she punctuated that with the Vulcan hand sign! And then, when talking about the way Bush pumps up the fear volume for the War on Terra, she explains it by saying “Fear is the mindkiller.” For those not familiar with classic SF, that’s from Frank Herbert’s Dune. Carol, you’re one of my people. May you get a job in the Dean Cabinet.
iTunes: “It’s Like That (Drop the Break)” by Run-D.M.C. from the album It’s Like That (1997, 8:20).
One of the things I’ve found that I like a lot about Howard Dean in interviews is that, at least when you can find an article not focusing on his supposed anger, how straightforward and honest he comes across as. Much was made a while ago about how even though he signed Vermont’s civil unions bill giving homosexual couples the same rights as married heterosexual couples, he admitted at the time that he wasn’t entirely comfortable with the idea of gay marriage. While most of the spin about this has been trying to paint some form of double-standard, or accusing Dean of signing the civil union bill purely for political gain, the most recent issue of Rolling Stone has an interview with Dean where they actually asked him about his comment.
What makes you think you won’t just get steamrolled once you are in Washington?
The Democrats just need a president who’s going to support them. That’s what I did on the civil-unions bill in Vermont. I came out in favor of civil unions about an hour after the [Vermont Supreme Court] decision came out. I knew it would give cover to a lot of legislators who would want to do the right thing but just didn’t have the nerve.
Didn’t you also say at the time that the whole idea of legally sanctioned gay relationships made you feel uncomfortable?
Sure. Look, I didn’t know anything about the gay community when I signed the civil-unions bill. I grew up in the same homophobic milieu that everybody else did. I was told the same thing about gay people that all heterosexuals were. And most gay people were told the same thing themselves — by parents, ministers and everybody else. I was uncomfortable, and I said so. And I got a lot of flak for it. But I still thought it was the right thing to do.
You don’t allocate civil rights by who makes you comfortable and who doesn’t. I believe that civil unions was a masterful way of making sure that every gay and lesbian Vermonter was entitled to the same rights as everybody else — without getting into the business about telling churches who they could marry and who they couldn’t marry. I think what we did was the right thing. Others may do it differently.
Equal rights under the law is a fundamental part of everybody’s thinking in America — which is why I don’t think civil unions is going to be a big issue in the election for me.
Is this an important enough issue to have it be one of the main issues of a presidential campaign?
Well, civil rights is an important issue. Gay marriage is not. Karl Rove will make it that way. Because he’ll claim that everything is gay marriage, and this and that and the other thing.
So you are just going to change the subject?
Yeah. If we allow the Republicans to run the campaign based on divisive issues — like prayer in school, gay marriage and gun control — then we lose. The right wing will try to make a big issue of it, and they’ll get some votes from some people who would have voted for them anyway.
Most people do not want to traffic in hate. And this election is going to be about whether we cater to the worst in us or cater to the best in us, and I intend to do the latter.
Answers like that are exactly why I support Dean. Straightforward, honest, not pussyfooting around the issue at all. Even if and when I don’t entirely agree with his answers, he always seems to have justifiable reasons for the decisions he makes, and he doesn’t make excuses for them. I’ll take that honesty over Bush’s lies any day.
iTunes: “Rescue Me” by Madonna from the album Immaculate Collection, The (1991, 5:31).
Woke up this morning with a head cold, and it’s just gotten worse as the day’s gone by. I’ve been drinking OJ like it was water all day, and just popped two NyQuil tablets, so hopefully I’ll be feeling a little more human by tomorrow.
For now, though, it’s an early bedtime for me.
iTunes: “Crablouse, The (No Visible Symptoms)” by Lords of Acid from the album Crablouse, The (1994, 5:26).
On March 16th of last year, Evergreen student Rachel Corrie was run over by an Israeli bulldozer and killed while trying to protect a Palestinian home being demolished. Now, right-wing weblog Little Green Footballs has awarded her their “idiotarian of the year” award, and the Wall Street Journal has seen fit to include this in a “Best of the Web” roundup under the headline “A Well-Deserved Award”.
Little Green Footballs has given out its second annual Robert Fisk Award for Idiotarian of the Year. This year’s winner: Rachel Corrie, the terror advocate who died in a bulldozer accident last March. Corrie picked up 28.8% of the vote in the 10-candidate finals, edging out Michael Moore (26.7%), who also finished second (behind Jimmy Carter) in 2002. Moore, who we hear dedicated his most recent “book” to Corrie, is the Susan Lucci of idiotarians. As one LGF commenter writes, “Michael Moore has to be crushed he didn’t win.”
The WSJ’s wording of the account is especially troubling. From what I’ve read, Rachel was a peace activist using non-violent means to try to intervene in the conflict in the Gaza Strip — hardly someone I’d describe as a “terror advocate.” I also see a large gulf between a “bulldozer accident” and a woman in a flourescent jacket wielding a bullhorn being run over by a bulldozer, which then drops its blade and backs over her a second time.
No matter which side of the Israel/Palestine conflict you stand on (an issue which I haven’t investigated enough to truly have an opinion one way or another), or how you feel about Rachel Corrie’s goals and methods (something which I have my own doubts about), to so blatantly and callously mock her death is truly despicable.
(via Kos)
My node id stubbed up, my head hurds, my throad id raw…today’s gonna suck.
iTunes: “Erased, Over, Out” by Nine Inch Nails from the album Further Down the Spiral (1995, 5:58).
How very interesting — Kodak, a company who’s name has been synonymous with photography my entire life, will stop selling traditional film cameras in America and Western Europe.
Blaming declining demand, the Rochester, New York-based company said it would by the end of this year quit making cameras that use the Advanced Photo System (APS) format, as well as reloadable cameras that use 35-millimeter film.
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Kodak will still make film for existing Advantix and other cameras, and intends to introduce new high-performance 35 millimeter and Advanced Photo System films next month.
(via BoingBoing and /.)
iTunes: “When Love Comes to Town” by U2 from the album Rattle and Hum (1988, 4:15).
The Internet Movie Database top 250 films, as voted by IMDB members.
Movies I’ve seen are in bold and prepended with “»” — exactly half, as it turns out.
(via kalyx and prettyman63)
iTunes: “900° (Cool Down)” by Pooley, Ian from the album Essential Chillout (2000, 6:47).
I’ve been reading Something Positive for a while now, since Royce showed it to me, but yesterday’s strip has two of the best quotes I’ve seen from it yet.
If masturbating was supposed to be cute, pink bunnies would do it in meadows and they’d ejaculate rainbows and flower petals.
I’m an artist and mindfucks are my medium.
iTunes: “Pride (In the Name of Love)” by U2 from the album Rattle and Hum (1988, 4:27).