January 2011
36 posts
"the year of arsonists posing as firemen" →
Paul Krugman rails against “budget magic” and confirms my worst fears of impending financial doom. [via Dan Savage]
December 2010
36 posts
“And people are going to go, ‘That land’s not yours, prove that it’s yours,’ and...”
– Ashton Kutcher, revealing that he’s practicing Krav Maga in anticipation of the apocalypse. via the Atlantic Wire (via washingtonpoststyle).
[I never thought Ashton Kutcher and I would agree on, you know, anything—but this quote describes my personal justification for starting CrossFit last...
“The only thing I can figure is that maybe Malia Obama is a sleepwalking...”
– DCist commenter scarpy on this post about the bizarre insistence of the DC Fire Department on labeling suspicious Columbia Heights car fires “mechanical” rather than arson.
“Our current data indicate that exercise training in the fasted state is more...”
– Translation: work out before breakfast to increase fat burning and decrease insulin resistance. Read the rest over at the NYT Well blog.
Ann Hornaday ranks the Coen brothers' movies
washingtonpoststyle:
1. Fargo
2. Miller’s Crossing
3. Raising Arizona
4. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
5. Barton Fink
6. Blood Simple
7. Burn after Reading
8. True Grit
9. The Hudsucker Proxy
10. Intolerable Cruelty
11. The Big Lebowski
12. A Serious Man
13. The Man Who Wasn’t There
14. No Country for Old Men
15. The Ladykillers
Read why here. What’s Newt Gingrich’s favorite Coen...
“Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he...”
– Loving v. Virginia, VA trial judge opinion, 1959 (via Kenji Yoshino).
Whoa, dude. The sun is huge. And active! →
From DCist:
Did you hear about last week’s mind-blowing solar filament? The loop of plasma stretched an amazing 700,000 kilometers across the sun’s surface – very nearly the distance between Earth and the Moon and back again. And then? It erupted! Solar scientists have been studying another solar storm that occurred just a few months ago on August 1 – it “was so big, it may have...
“I believe the reluctance many Marines feel about repeal is based on the false...”
– A Marine infantry officer’s op-ed, “Sexuality doesn’t matter on the battlefield,” from yesterday’s Washington Post. RTWT.
Brownies make kids feel "different" →
Ha.
[Via DCist.]
Army doctor refused to deploy because not... →
…and faces more than 3 years in prison.
Interesting tidbit:
“In September, a military judge ruled the president’s birth certificate is irrelevant in Lakin’s case. His lawyer will therefore not be able to raise the issue as a defense for why Lakin, a flight surgeon, did not report for what would have been a second tour of duty in Afghanistan.”
savage love enters the 21st century lol →
Ah, the youth of today…
Comments are pretty sweet too, by the way.
Holy crap used to power a city in Sweden →
“Kristianstad has already crossed a crucial threshold: the city and surrounding county, with a population of 80,000, essentially use no oil, natural gas or coal to heat homes and businesses, even during the long frigid winters. It is a complete reversal from 20 years ago, when all of their heat came from fossil fuels.
But this area in southern Sweden, best known as the home of Absolut...
First
It’s snowing! Barely, but there it is. The first snow of the season. Bam.
Well shit. →
How are we still even talking about this? Most people in the country want to repeal, most people serving in the military want to repeal, the Pentagon wants to repeal, a majority of senators and representatives want to repeal, and DADT still lives. WTF, America.
[Via DCist.]
Bullying is good business →
This guy is absurd.
Brickskeller to close Dec. 18 →
Le nooooooooooo!
Terrible, terrible, terrible →
When layoffs come to L.A. schools, performance doesn’t count.
After the budget ax fell, hundreds of the district’s most promising new instructors were laid off. Campuses in poorer areas — such as Liechty Middle School in the Westlake neighborhood — were disproportionately hurt.
Thanks to Nicole for the link.
WatchTo think, at one point I considered voting for this man for President. This is intellectual and personal dishonesty of the worst sort. John McCain is dead, and this shell is all that’s left.
(Via Savage.)
“I’m just a football guy,” Kelly said when I asked what else occupies his mind....”
– This football coach is the kind of lawyer I want to be. RTWT.
The smartest thoughts on bullying I've read so far →
“The ugly truth is that kids get bullied because they’re not conforming to some social standard the bullies hold, and often the adults in charge agree with the bullies on the social standard, which makes them side all too often with bullies against the bullied. This is the most under-discussed aspect of the problem, by far. The only people who seem to be talking about how bullying is a...
Did you know Jazzercise still existed? →
I didn’t! But it does—at least, it does in Wichita. And it’s still cool enough that—you guessed it—this deal is ON.
