Off to NYC

28May10

Always think of this song in connection to the city. YouTube hilariously auto-completes “Jesus Says” with “Obama is the anti-christ”

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It’s Both

28May10

Through the Wire, reactions to Prince of Persia: ‘Insulting’ The blogger Jehanzeb Dar, who writes at Muslim Reverie, told the Associated Press that Gyllenhaal’s casting is “not only insulting to Persians, it’s also insulting to white people. It’s saying white people can’t enjoy movies unless the protagonist is white.” (Dar later contacted the Wire to clarify that […]

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Tags: jake gylenhaal, metroid, prince of persia, the atlantic, wire, zelda

“Yeah, in Six Games”

28May10

The above formula details the likely success of a penalty kick. I hate to admit this, but this sort of thing probably would have really helped me in math. More than that though, the penalty formula is, strangely, one of the reasons I can appreciate sports even more now though. With the vast success of […]

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Tags: chelsea, daily mail, Frank Lampard, lampard, penalty kick, penalty kick formula

Harold Ford, Jr. Tried to Run for Senate as a Democrat

26May10

Heh, I’m not sure why the GOP didn’t just let him win in Tennessee. He’s got a piece up at HuffPo where he’s repeatedly schooled by HuffPo commenters. Let that one sink in. The growth of the Internet ecosystem relies on continued private investment. For the past decade, a stable market atmosphere has prospered under […]

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Tags: harold ford jr, Huffington Post, net neutrality, new york, senate race

This Does Not Bode Well for the Vikings

26May10

Now does this look like a guy who’d “break your fucking neck, homeboy?”

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Tags: jared allen, mullet, vikings

US Morality

26May10

This poll was somewhat shocking to me. I assumed that in the last decade it was a significant minority that kept anti-gay legislation on the agenda, but most of the country had apparently had their back. I think this says something about the people I’m around, but also my generation in general. This just won’t […]

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Tags: attitudes, gallup, gay marriage, lgbt

Lousy Activist Judges…

25May10

Megansigh: This weekend, I had a conversation with someone non-crazy who thinks there is a not-insignificant chance that the Supreme Court will overturn health care reform, or at least the individual mandate (it’s not clear what happens to the rest of the law if the mandate goes down; there’s some possibility that this would invalidate […]

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Tags: health care, health care reform, megan mcardle, Supreme Court, the atlantic, unconstitutional