Living the Liminal

If the Republican Party is searching for a candidate that appeals to their religious conservative base, they need look no further. According to sources who are close to the Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has expressed interest in a possible run for Republican nomination in the 2008 election. When asked about the Constitutional requirement of being [...]

From yesterday’s NY Times:
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — After white parents in this racially mixed city
complained about school overcrowding, school authorities set out to
draw up a sweeping rezoning plan. The results: all but a handful of the
hundreds of students required to move this fall were black — and many
were sent to virtually all-black, low-performing schools. (Link)
Sometimes I [...]

I find it ironic that the whole brouhaha over drastic price cuts on the iPhone has occurred on the heels of Labor Day. In all the whining and grumbling about consumer rights, and that consumers can no longer trust a company (as if companies care about their customers as people rather than as perpetual consumers), [...]

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The Flaming Lips = Dell
Wilco = some car commercial (can’t remember which because I was so distracted by hearing Jeff Tweedy’s voice in a commercial.

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From the great comics of xkcd.com

Yes.
Just . . . yes.
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IN THE FRAY: The Impoverishment of American Culture
Remarks delivered by Dana Gioia, Chairman of the National Endowment for the
Arts in his Stanford Commencement Address on July 17, 2007
There is an experiment I’d love to conduct. I’d like to survey a
cross-section of Americans and [...]

. . . But very, very scary!!
An amazing report from The National Review’s cruise: a bunch of rich, white, reactionary, neo-cons who don’t bother to censor themselves and say things like:
A sweet elderly lady from Los Angeles is sitting on the rocks nearby, telling me dreamily about her son. “Is he your only child?” [...]

You really need to see this!
(hat tip to Pam Spaulding at Pandagon)

(link to Crooks & Liars)

(hat tip to Auguste at Pandagon for the pic)
THE BILL OF RIGHTS
Amendments 1-10 of the Constitution
(with particular sections directly under attack by the Bush administration in bold)
The Conventions of a number of the States having, at the time of adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, [...]