Tumblelog

Aug 14

impromptu geek meet-up as stranger in C.J. Barrymore’s lobby pronounces “A Game of Swords” that is lying on my lap “a good book!”

Aug 13

Exclusive: ‘Friday Night Lights’ return date set

Aug 12

RT @CitizenCohn: Bush Administration tied to radical Islamists http://bit.ly/9jCWO3

Comparing Democratic and Republican tax plans

Our Daughter Isn't a Selfish Brat; Your Son Just Hasn't Read "Atlas Shrugged" (8/12/10)

Aug 11

The benefits of a college degree in one graph

Aug 10

RT @TheSwellSeason: The Swell Season cover Neutral Milk Hotel’s “Two-Headed Boy”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxGGTAPdJYk

Facebook Letting Users Unsubscribe From Feed Story Notifications

Aug 09

Creationism Lives

Confessions of a Tea Party Casualty

Aug 08

Finn jogged a mile without stopping today. He was quite excited and proud of his accomplishment.

Aug 07

one of the best things about back pain is that I don’t have to feel guilty about sucking in my gut

Aug 06

RT @ThePlumLineGS: Weiner: I honor Bloomberg's "powerful" statement about the mosque, but I don't have the guts to agree with the part that makes it powerful

Guy Offers Free Rides to Keep Drunk Drivers Off the Streets, Is Arrested - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine

Aug 04

Silence isn't always golden

Delta Passenger Kicked Off Flight For Asking If Pilot Had Been Drinking

Aug 03

Is Obama a Socialist?

Aug 02

From neocons to crazy-cons - latimes.com

It's getting to be embarrassing to be a conservative

Midland Basketball Academy to open with visit from legendary coach Don Meyer

The crisis of middle-class America

Op-Ed Contributor: Four Deformations of the Apocalypse

Jul 31

White supremacist rally in Midland draws strong opinions, small crowds

Latest News > Peter Cummings to receive AIChE Founders Award

my PhD advisor

Elliot mowing the grass for the first time http://twitpic.com/2ag1hq

Can Obama make success popular?

PostPartisan - On immigration, Lindsey Graham abandons principle

Jul 30

RT @nyctaper: just posted a live recording of The National from Terminal 5 last night http://www.nyctaper.com/?p=3672

best friend at work is transferring to Indianapolis. Ran into him as we were both leaving for the day, his last. bummer.

Reagan Worship For Fun And Profit | The New Republic

Glenn Beck and the Oakland shooter

University Website

Jul 29

zydeco at Tunes at the Tridge

Dow group to spearhead U.S Dept. of Energy project

American Physical Society journals now free to public libraries in US

The Associated Press: Republicans block small business lending bill

Anne Rice: "I Quit Being A Christian"

Bay City homeless shelter witnessing record numbers, nearing capacity

Consumers Energy working in our backyard http://twitpic.com/29k1lz

On page 227 of 1216 of A Storm of Swords

Americans Say 'Melting Pot' Policies Once Made U.S. Stronger, But No More

Good Reads on Religious Diversity

The "Let Them Eat Want Ads" Caucus

Jul 28

EMU student's lawsuit dismissed | detnews.com | The Detroit News

Jul 27

Quote of the Day: Political Footballs in Congress

Jul 26

Full stream of On the Ones and Threes by Versus from Merge Records (limited time only)

Judge rules that circumventing DRM is not illegal

Period Speech

Op-Ed Columnist: The Right and the Climate

Jul 25

New J. Tillman - "Three Sisters" (Recorded by Steve Albini)

Jul 24

Myths widen the science-religion divide - USATODAY.com

Survey of nearly 1,700 of the nation’s top natural and social scientists undercuts many of the assumptions that have poisoned the well.

Help! The President's Faith-Based Initiative is Missing!

Jul 23

RT @tpolamalu: Neither sound or light can escape todays social network I dont know why I thought I could but today I surrender to the tweeting revolution

Stuff Christians Like - Secretly being liberal.

Women Elders?

Faith, hope and… doubt

Jul 22

Newt Gingrich's First Amendment Hypocrisy

When Tucker Carlson asked to join Journolist

White supremacist group plans rally on Midland County Courthouse steps

Study of Death Penalty in North Carolina Shows That 'Race Matters'

Cuts in Home Care Worry Elderly and Disabled - NYTimes.com

Rachel Maddow Show

Rachel Maddow explains that the Sherrod scandal-spun-out-of-thin-air is political strategy to stoke fear and racial resentment among white voters.

Was God Just Clearing His Throat When He Said, “Herem”?

Ban a ground zero mosque?

Ben Stein: The Unemployed Are People With ‘Unpleasant Personalities…Who Do Not Know How To Do A Day’s Work’

Jul 21

White House to media: You lap up Breitbart's nonsense, too!

How To Secure Your Facebook Account In 5 Seconds

Jul 20

Republican Tax Nonsense

Scoop: DirecTV deal saves ‘Damages’ from cancellation!

Jul 19

Devil's Advocates | Commonweal magazine

Why are some prolifers so worried—and so insistent—that the health-reform law will force the government to fund abortions?

Alaska Senate Candidate Miller: Unemployment Benefits Not "Constitutionally Authorized"

Don’t these Obama haters have the Google?

The Associated Press: Abortion foes win a round in health overhaul

Republicans now blaming Democrats for Bush tax cuts

The new Republican line is that there’s a “Democrat tax hike” on the way. And it’s a big ‘un: “An unprecedented $3.8 trillion increase” that will affect — and this is their bold and…

Jul 18

Tom Toles for Sunday, July 18, 2010

The Future of the Progressive Churches of Christ: The Christian Standard’s June 13, 2010 Issue, Part 3

Jul 17

Adams: Players in bar brawl also hurt teammates

A radical idea for airline security

With Larry Bird at the Hall of Fame http://twitpic.com/2660ph

Basketball Hall of Fame http://twitpic.com/265z45

Jul 16

ThinkGeek adds “Mayor of Your Mom” Foursquare shirt, and it’s pretty fly

Size matters (at least for stimulus)

Jul 15

Do conservatives care about the deficit? Do Democrats?

Mystic Seaport

Jul 14

Late afternoon swim http://twitpic.com/25aw5v

CT Science Center

We Have A Crisis. Does Anyone Give a Damn?

Jul 13

'A Chart That Screams, "Extend Unemployment Benefits!" '

You’ll have to excuse me for simply stealing Daniel Indiviglio’s headline for this chart, but it’s really the right way to introduce it:

“That giant gap consists of Americans who are unemployed and couldn't get a job even if they wanted to…

The saddest senator: Why John McCain has become so painful to watch. - By Jacob Weisberg - Slate Magazine

We Have A Crisis. Does Anyone Give a Damn?

Jul 12

concert in downtown Hartford

Jul 11

The view from the back porch http://twitpic.com/24ffwx