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Obama References Jay-Z

Posted on April 21, 2008
I missed this Jay-Z reference on the campaign trail a few days ago.After conceding that the Philly debate was tough, he brushed the imaginary lint of Hillary, George and Charlie from his shoulders, in a wordless reference to Jay-Z?s lyrics in his anthem about not letting anyone crimp your ride as you cruise from the bottom to the top: ?Got some, dirt on my shoulder, could you brush it off for me...

More info on the Matzoh Shortage

Posted on April 21, 2008
Looks like there are two big culprits:(1) Trader Joe's and Costco decided not to carry it this year."Much of the holiday revolves around matzo, though some bigger chain stores like Costco and Trader Joe's decided not to carry it this year. There are reports that other grocery chains, like Safeway, are running out of matzo...

Wherein I am Behind the Times

Posted on April 21, 2008
I finally got around to watching this viral video from 50 years ago. Not bad:

Useful Questions for Voters

Posted on April 19, 2008
NRO lists some helpful questions for voters considering who pull the lever for this November:(1) Do you, personally, know anyone who has ever tried to blow up the Pentagon? Do you know of anyone who actually brags that they did, successfully, plant and detonate a bomb at the Pentagon?(2) Do you, personally, know anyone has ever planned to blow up an officer's dance at a military base, say, Fort Dix?(3) Do you, personally, know anyone who has gotten someone killed in an explosion because of their actions?(4) Even if these bombings and attempted bombings occurred forty years ago, is that the sort of thing you could forgive, and/or dismiss? Do you believe that assembling a bomb, and intending to kill police, members of the military, and ordinary innocent civilians is the sort of thing that should be considered "water under the bridge" once enough time has passed?(5) Could you shake hands with this person? Go to a party at their house? Accept a donation from them? If you knew this about a person, could you look at them and forget that they gathered the explosives, assembled the wires and the parts, scoped out their target, planted it, and watched it detonate with excitement?(6) Do you relate to having people like that in your social circle?No, I don't, either.

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I'll take that trade, actually

Posted on April 19, 2008
Obama's people are slamming McCain for, of all things, not denouncing someone he doesn't associate himself with or consider an ally.If McCain believes, as he has said, that 'these are God's children,' he should not stand by silently as Tancredo or anyone else in the Republican Party continues using immigrants as scapegoats or playing politics with immigration legislation...

We Can Never Talk About Issues Again

Posted on April 18, 2008
Senator Obama seemed to complain yesterday that issues Americans care about were lost in the debate on 4/16. Because the moderators spent 45 minutes asking questions about character and honesty, he noted, that took time from a real discussion of the issues...

Obama's Debate Performance, 4/16

Posted on April 18, 2008
The consensus amongst Republicans after Obama's Wednesday night debate performance is pretty much chipper. Once worried, nay, terrified, about an Obama campaign, the GOP is growing more comfortable with the McCain-Obama race.Here's David Brooks:He sprinkled his debate performance Wednesday night with the sorts of fibs, evasions and hypocrisies that are the stuff of conventional politics...

Wow, Good Argument

Posted on April 16, 2008
Hat Tip: ES

McCain Girls are a Hoax

Posted on April 15, 2008
Wow. This is depressing. The McCain Girls aren't really staunch McCain supporters, but working for a group partly owned by the Huffington Post.Slate takes HuffPo to task for not revealing their connection to the McCain Girls before promoting them.Huffington has every right to advertise its own product?Slate does it with SlateV every day?but it needs to make clear where the content is coming from...

50 Greatest Sketches of All Time

Posted on April 15, 2008
I'm not sure I agree with the rankings here, but Nerve has picked up some amazing video of a lot of great classic sketch comedy.It's good to see a nice scattering of Mr. Show, Kids in the Hall, the State, and Saturday Night Live in the mix. I was a little surprised not to see more recent SNL stuff, but I guess the Digital shorts might not technically count as "sketch" comedy...

Passover Diet

Posted on April 15, 2008
Passover is coming up this weekend. It's probably the hardest time of the year for me, religiously. Still, it was a lot harder for the Israelites to be slaves in Egypt for 400 years. So comparatively, I'm getting off pretty easy.Here's my post from two years ago detailing the restrictions on Jews' diets...

Rock of Love II is Over; Sadness Ensues

Posted on April 15, 2008
Ambre beats Daisy in the finals of Rock of Love Two.The show finally comes to an end after a long 11 weeks of competition. I definitely didn't see Ambre winning at the beginning -- nor did Bret, since he almost eliminated her on the first episode.Of course, I'm rooting for Bret and Ambre to find happiness...

If You Like Good Causes

Posted on April 15, 2008
With tax season being over today, it's a good time to start preparing your charitable donations for next year.One easy way you can start the year (or, really, the second quarter) off right is by visiting Maisnon's hiking page, wherein she is raising a substantial amount of money to help Leukemia research (anti-Leukemia)...

Free the Jefferson 1

Posted on April 13, 2008
A group of clever libertarian youths tried to have a dance party on the steps of the Jefferson monument, or order to celebrate his birthday.Everyone brought an iPod and danced to themselves for 10 minutes from 11:55 PM to 12:05 AM.Except DC police broke it up...

The Counterpunch

Posted on April 13, 2008
I worried before about bittergate, mostly because it betrayed a certain dismissive liberal superiority that Obama has so far avoided.  McCain and Clinton jumped all over it. But here's the counterpunch.  It diffuses the criticism then hits back pretty hard...

Bigger than Wright?

Posted on April 12, 2008
I don't know that this will be a bigger problem for Obama than Reverend Wright, but it should be, because it is a real gaffe.First of all, don't listen to those who say Obama was "just telling the truth." What he said was not a simple truth, but a complicated speculation about the social forces that give rise to political views, particularly those of the poor...

Get Me More White People

Posted on April 11, 2008
Obama is racially profiling his followers now.While the crowd was indeed diverse, some students at the event questioned the practices of Mrs. Obama?s event coordinators, who handpicked the crowd sitting behind Mrs. Obama.The Tartan?s correspondents observed one event coordinator say to another, ?Get me more white people, we need more white people...

Obama Makes a Joke about his Vibrating Penis

Posted on April 11, 2008
Awkward situation in Indiana yesterday.[Obama] was posing for a photograph with two waitresses and the restaurant?s owner. When he leaned in for the picture, touching his leg to one of the older women, he suddenly cracked a smile.?That?s my phone buzzing there,? he said, gesturing to his right pocket...

McCain Girls Sequel

Posted on April 11, 2008
This video went up a few days ago, but it was taken down quickly. Now it's back up. Watch it before it goes down again.It's not totally clear why McCain is a ghost at 2:00. And then becomes a star at the end of the video. Is that a comment on his age?

Obama Pwned By Meredith Viera

Posted on April 10, 2008
Ouch. That's like getting Pwned by Regis.

Pelosi Outflanks Bush on Free Trade Colombia

Posted on April 10, 2008
Bush, frustrated with the slow pace of the congressional legislation process (how long has he been President?), went ahead and sent the Colombia trade bill to the House without Speaker Pelosi's approval. This was a big surprise to her.Both sides have been at loggerheads over the deal for months, prompting Bush to take the rare step of sending the deal to Capitol Hill on Tuesday without the speaker?s blessing, becoming the first president ever to do so since the establishment of the fast track rules...

Torch Running

Posted on April 10, 2008
This is the planning model the Olympic crew used to navigate San Francisco yesterday.

Obama's Knockout Blow in Pennsylvania

Posted on April 09, 2008
Do not underestimate two things:1. Obama's talent at retail politics, even amongst a demographically unfriendly environment.2. The desire of rank-and-file Democrats to end the race for this nomination.For the first time in weeks, it's looking like Obama is building momentum in Pennsylvania, and may actually take the state...

Concert Violinist Plays L'Enfant Plaza

Posted on April 08, 2008
This article won a Pulitzer yesterday.It's a very long piece, but at least the beginning is worth a skim.The WashPo took a famed concert violinist, had him play Bach's most difficult piece on his 1710 Stradivarius, and put him in the center of the Metro station in DC...

The Memphis Tigers are Rumpelstilzkin

Posted on April 08, 2008
Not the miller's daughter. The Kansas Jayhawks guessed their name tonight, 75-68 in OT.It was an incredible game. Crowds of people gathered around the televisions at the gym to watch the last few minutes of the game. Pretty thrilling.And if anyone is curious, I had Kansas beating Memphis in the finals in my work bracket...

SoYouWantToBeALawClerk

Posted on April 08, 2008
This new website is up for those of you aspiring to federal clerkships. I definitely recommend the experience if you're considering it.The WSJ Law Blog interviewed the founder of the website, Ellen Carey, who's now clerking in Northern Michigan, according to her statements in the interview...

Clinton Can't Bowl Either

Posted on April 08, 2008
Ellen Degenerous played an evil trick on Hillary yesterday, having her try to bowl on the show.[T]he New York senator showed her bowling skills may be every bit as lacking as those of her chief rival. On a makeshift bowling alley on the show's set, Clinton missed the pins entirely on her first try, and only knocked out one on her second and final attempt...

Forty Years Ago

Posted on April 04, 2008
RFK's speech to a crowd in Indianapolis, at a campaign stop, for the 1968 election.RFK himself died, at the hand of Sirhan Sirhan, a few months later, on June 6, 1968.

"Hillary is a Big, Effing Whore"

Posted on April 04, 2008
Air America host Randi Rhodes called Hillary a big effing whore yesterday, and promptly got suspended from her Air America job.Why is she a big effing whore? Because "her deal always is, read the fine print asshole."That doesn't even make sense dude. The audience doesn't even laugh...

Memphis Tigers: the NCAA's Rumpselstilzkin Story

Posted on April 04, 2008
A hilarious Onion article about the fact that there is no Cindarella story team in the final four this year. But there is a Rumpelstilzkin story team in the Memphis Tigers."Okay, now, pay attention, because this is pretty complicated," point guard Derrick Rose said upon opening what was to be a three-hour marathon of explanations, questions, and folkloric interpretation held in a conference room at the at the team's hotel...

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