May 06
Alas, it appears that my beloved home state will follow in Pennsylvania’s footsteps. On the other hand, I’m happy to see Indiana with a relevant primary. Here’s to the Hoosier vote!
Apr 11
Topic #1: how to choose which gang your child will join.
As Commerce City police Sgt. Joe Sandoval tells it, “they have different ideas on how the baby should be raised. Basically, she said they cannot agree on which gang the baby would ‘claim’.”
Kelly and I will be discussing this important topic tonight, in hopes of heading off a video-rack-upending-computer-destroying confrontation on down the road.
Apr 10
“We don’t have a choice when it comes to our relatives. We have a choice when it comes to our pastors and the churches we attend.”
Hillary Clinton, responding to Barak Obama’s decision to continue attending his church despite Pastor Wright’s controversial comments.
“Then he looked at those seated in a circle around him and said, ‘Here are my mother and my brothers! Whoever does God’s will is my brother and sister and mother.’
Jesus, in Mark 3:34
Do we really have more choice about our churches than we have about our families?
Feb 02
The riches of the Internet:
* The subtle beauty of subversive humor and unexpected virtuosity on the daily commute.
* A skillful blending of the old and new in a tribute to classic cinema.
* Utilitarian structures finding new life as striking architecture.
* Yes We Can.
One final note on the last item: Obama may be the most liberal Senator of 2007, but boy does he go down smooth.
Nov 08
I think the title speaks for itself.
Jul 27
Snubbing a YouTube debate seems like a bad idea to me; the Republican party already has an image problem with being elitist. Passing up a debate that features questions directly stated by a wide variety of folks over the Internet only reinforces that perception.
Jun 28
1956 or 2006?
“In September 2006, a group of African American high school students in Jena, Louisiana, asked the school for permission to sit beneath a ‘whites only’ shade tree. There was an unwritten rule that blacks couldn’t sit beneath the tree. The school said they didn’t care where students sat. The next day, students arrived at school to see three nooses (in school colors) hanging from the tree.”
Read more at While Seated or BBC.
(via kottke.org)
May 17
The web in action: Kottke mentions an insightful interview with Jonathan Rauch. The name is vaguely familiar and the excerpts Kottke includes are compelling enough that I head out to Wikipedia and do a little reading on Jonathan Rauch himself.
My eye is drawn to a paragraph on Rauch’s article, “Caring for Your Introvert: The habits and needs of a little-understood group”, so I follow the link and save the article for later reading. I go back and skim the interview, uncovering the following gem:
- reason: You have a favorite bit of advice to younger people, don’t you?
- Rauch: Don’t go to law school unless you want to be a lawyer.
- reason: That would thin the herd pretty quickly, wouldn’t it?
- Rauch: Yeah, it sure would.
- reason: That might be the most powerful reform idea that you have.
- Rauch: I was going to say you could probably dump the whole rest of the interview and just print that.
I e-mail it off to my dad (a paralegal) and continue on with my day. Lunch break rolls around and I read the “Caring for Your Introvert” article. Brilliant!
Sep 15
I just finished watching “Steve Jobs introduce the very first iPod”:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIdjdAWbdeU&mode=related&search= five years ago.
Aug 10
A local landmark, the Doo Drop Inn, has closed. After serving delicious perch dinners and mouth-watering onion rings (among other things) to Muskegon for 71 years, the family-owned restaurant is retiring. The current owners are taking their well-deserved rest and the family’s third generation has gone outside of the restaurant business.
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