January 2010
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“The populists have an Us versus Them mentality. If they continue their random...”
– David Brooks this week (via kateheffernan)
Brilliantly simple diagnosis of the political and economic climate that dissuades economic recovery.
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All-White Basketball League in the Works →
They are aware it’s 2010, right?
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Charlie Brown's baseball stats →
“And the team only ever seems to win when Chuck isn’t involved. For five of the seven wins explicitly mentioned, he is: sick; at camp; forced from the game by a line drive; hiding at home after a loss; and so distracted by the Little Red-Haired Girl in the stands that he leaves the game entirely. The other two wins? Forfeit.”
What a world we live in, where someone can compile...
“If murdered, please wait until my death has been heavily publicized, then log...”
– If Murdered - One of my favorites. See also, this.
“Sleep All Day” - The Rural Alberta...
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The National - Fake Empire
stay out...
Part of my job is to schedule the movie channel on campus. The place we order movies for the movie channel from sends us monthly suggestions.
The March suggestions included “Summer Catch” because Freddie Prinze Jr’s birthday is in March.
Watchpaulscheer:
DISNEY’S ARBOR DAZE w/ TIM ALLEN
Tim Allen Gets it!
(Look for a starring role from Lil George Bush from Human Giant)
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History's Best Wingman
There’s Satchel Paige, and that sparks the Nancy story, of course. I cannot tell you how many times I heard the Nancy story. Fifty? A hundred? Buck could go 20 minutes on the Nancy story. I’ve come up with a shortened version: Buck and Satchel Paige were sitting in a hotel in Chicago when a taxi pulled up and out stepped Nancy (“Pretty as a picture”), who Satchel had invited to Chicago. After they...
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Newark Mayor Shovels Snow after Twitter Request →
I think Cory Booker might be the world’s coolest mayor. First, the war with Conan O’Brien, now helping an old man shovel snow because of a Twitter request.
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