A couple of months ago, I decided that I needed something to decorate my carrel- something to keep my for getting depressed in my small windowless room in the library- so I ordered prints of a bunch of my favorite photos up on Flickr. The pics looked great. and it was really nice to have something physical to look at ( Read more... )

inspired by owlmoose

a catscan

At a recent town-hall style meeting during which an audience member said she thought that Mr. Obama was an “Arab,” Mr. McCain replied, “No, ma’am, he’s a decent family man.”

no comment.

no, that's not true, I do have a comment. I was so, so happy to hear Colin Powell say this this morning...

I'm also troubled by, not what Sen. McCain says, but what ( Read more... )

I thought John Kerry was fantastic, I wish he could have done that 4 years ago!
but I'm a little surprised that the media is completely ignoring his speech... what is that about?

...how the hell did this happen?

It hit me while I was away, reading an opinion piece in the Herald Tribune. I don't remember who wrote it, but it was about things the next president needs to do for the economy. And there was a sentence, something along the lines of "whoever the next president is, HE will need to ( Read more... )

I keep seeing this quote, or quotes along these lines in the press reports about our no-longer-so-esteemed governor's potential successor:

"Mr. Paterson, who is legally blind, would become the first black governor of New York"

is it just me or is here something wrong with this?  what does the fact that he is legally blind have to do with the fact ( Read more... )

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http://www.improveverywhere.com/2007/10/17/no-shirts/

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=19482974

I'm not quite sure what I think of this. On the one hand, it's great that TMBG wrote a song about Sargon, Hammurabi, Assurbanipal and  Gilgamesh, but on the other, the visuals of the video are terrible- there are certainly enough representations of Mesopotamian kings out ( Read more... )