Month: September 2007
According to several of my students, today marks "Drink as Much Beer as Possible Day." Among the various alcohol-themed holidays, the legitimacy of this one appears to hover somewhere below.
A couple of Matt's commenters beat me to it, but I don't think it's really accurate to say that Thompson is taking a stand on "federalist" grounds. He's never met.
Good....to be clear, I mean small-d "democratic" in the title -- no system that could permit a substantial loser in the popular vote to become President for no good reason.
[Graphic from Metsgrrl.]I was in Flushing for tonight's unpleasantness, and what can you say? Petey did his job; 2 earned, either driven in or scored by the best hitter in.
Not to let my frustration brim over too much, but what's wrong with people that don't use turn signals? Are there drivers ed programs out there teaching that there are.
Interesting story in the NYT about a woman who appears to have made up an elaborate public 9/11 survival story out of whole cloth. As with Glass, there are giveaways.
Scott wrote this morning about Verizon's decision not to allow NARAL Pro-Choice America to use the Verizon network for pro-rights text messaging. The carrier cited its ability to decline to.
Matt highlights this genuinely bizarre passage in a Times article about the labor dispute at GM:Beyond the bookkeeping effect of VEBAs, the health care funds could create a kind of.