The Whiskey Water Trick

5:38 pm  •  1 May 2012

Mitt Romney put family dog on roof of car for 12-hour ride in 1983 - politically imprudent?

6:00 pm  •  12 March 2012  •  1 note

In Mississippi:

In Alabama:

4:07 pm  •  12 March 2012  •  4 notes

Eliot Spitzer weighs in on why Romeny is faultering:

And, as luck would have it, the global economy has supplied us with two experiments, one testing each theory. The European Union embraced the austerity of Hayek and the anti-Keynesians: It is plunging into a renewed recession. Here in the United States, where President Obama supported a modest stimulus bill, auto bailouts, and some financial reregulation, the renewed auto sector is roaring back to life, and the unemployment rate is dropping at a nice clip.

Broadly speaking, there are three strands to the Republican Party. One is libertarian, led by Ron Paul. One more theological, socially conservative and moralist, now following Rick Santorum. One is traditionally corporate and fiscally conservative, supportive, with some hesitancy, of Mitt Romney. Romney simply can’t close the deal with the first two groups because he really doesn’t agree with them, nor they with him.

10:14 pm  •  21 February 2012

Chris Cornell plays “I Will Always Love You” at Obama Fundraiser

4:55 am  •  20 February 2012

Cute Hedgehog of the Day

12:33 pm  •  19 February 2012  •  3 notes

Happy Saturday!  John Mayer covers Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright

9:44 pm  •  18 February 2012

“Political language—and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists—is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind”

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George Orwell in “Politics and the English Language.”

via The Dish

10:58 am  •  13 February 2012  •  7 notes

Future MIT Student sends Admission Letter into Space

From BoingBoing:

Chris sez, “My name is Chris Peterson. I run web communications for MIT Admissions and have been a loyal BB reader for years. For the last several years we have been sending our admitted students their acceptance letters in cardboard tubes. First because we sent a poster, but now it’s its own thing. 2012 is the anniversary of an old MIT balloon hack, so we put a letter in all of the Early Action admit tubes telling them we wanted them to hack the tubes somehow, and set up http://hackthetubes.mitadmissions.org to collect responses. Lots of them are great, but this one, from Erin King (MIT ‘16) in Georgia, is the best.”

6:00 am  •  8 February 2012

Future MIT Student sends Admission Letter into Space

From BoingBoing:

Chris sez, “My name is Chris Peterson. I run web communications for MIT Admissions and have been a loyal BB reader for years. For the last several years we have been sending our admitted students their acceptance letters in cardboard tubes. First because we sent a poster, but now it’s its own thing. 2012 is the anniversary of an old MIT balloon hack, so we put a letter in all of the Early Action admit tubes telling them we wanted them to hack the tubes somehow, and set up http://hackthetubes.mitadmissions.org to collect responses. Lots of them are great, but this one, from Erin King (MIT ‘16) in Georgia, is the best.”

7:02 pm  •  7 February 2012