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Bands I Like, Selling Cars & Computers
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. 🙁 Technorati Tags: commercials, flaming lips, wilco
Outside the Boxes
From the great comics of xkcd.com Yes. Just . . . yes. Powered by ScribeFire.
Remarks by Dana Gioia on Arts Education
I received this through an email list and wanted to share it: 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 …
Rich, White & Stupid
. . . 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 …
Keith Olberman Calls Out Bush
You really need to see this! (hat tip to Pam Spaulding at Pandagon) (link to Crooks & Liars)
George Vs. America on this 4th of July
(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 …
Please watch this
I saw this over on Feministing and wanted to share it with anyone who might stop by here. Her words are beautiful and ugly and intense and, sadly, so very necessary. According to the comments at Feministing her name is Andrea Gibson and you can find more of her work at her website. Technorati Tags: …
Funny ‘Cause It’s True
Just came across this cartoon by Wellington Grey, a Physics teacher in England. Check out his website at www.wellingtongrey.net .
It’s the Little Things . . .
So I was reading the May 21 edition of Newsweek and, in an article about transgendered people, came across this passage: Genesis set up the initial dichotomy: “Male and female he created them.” And historically, the differences between men and women in this country were thought to be distinct. Men, fueled by testosterone, were the …