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Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's tandem rally on the National Mall this past weekend seemed to go well. Depending on the source you check, it was either equal in size to Glenn Beck's rally earlier this year, or several times larger. In this case, size doesn't really matter. And neither do the speculations that the rally was a callous and snarky PR ( Read more... )

So after getting all chuffed with my Dante's Inferno Powerpoint fun yesterday, I found this today via Marlene Arpe. Okay, I admit: his shit is cool.

Also, I hear that Obama thinks Kanye West is a shitheel too. Listen:

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Hey, Barack, that fly thing was great so don't worry...

I was gonna post an update on what's been happenin' around here the last few days but I just can't be bothered to regale y'all with tales of tax updates, basement cleaning, Valentine's wackiness and wet snow. I'm sooooooo not in the mood for my own boring shit ( Read more... )

This article was linked on buddy sign_of_milky's blog, but the debate was important enough (to me at least) to re-post here. The creator of Obama's most famous 'HOPE' campaign poster is being sued by The Associated Press for copyright infringement. The artist clearly used the A.P. photo as reference for his work but created a wholly new tone with the image in ( Read more... )

Today is Election Day for my American friends, and I have the feeling like I'm actually witnessing history in the making. It's sorta surreal. The Dubya years were historic too: 9/11, the second Iraq War, the 'War On Terrorism', that WMD fiasco, Hurricane Katrina, Homeland Security, the collapse on Wall Street, but it seems like whatever happens ( Read more... )