Weiner famously aspired to be mayor of New York. Rumor has it that Eliot Spitzer does as well. Neither man will probably ever hold that office, but right now Spitzer has a better case than Weiner — because unlike Weiner, when he disgraced himself he actually resigned.
Uh, no. Right now, Ross, Spitzer has a better case than Weiner because Spitzer’s scandal happened three years ago and Weiner’s scandal happened in the past two weeks.
The kid’s facial expressions are priceless.
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Oh my.
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Panda Bear — “Alsatian Darn”
Song of the moment.
Only feel a chill whenever I come out from my shell
I’d surely lie if I said that I was sure that it might work out
Now, I won’t let it slide
No, I wont let it slip up
Found a way and I feel like I shouldn’t let go
Drop a bomb on the spots where my doubt streams grow
What to do when the things that I want don’t allow
For the handful of mouths that I’m trying to feed
Got to do what you’ve got to do
What weighs on my mind
So I cant get sleep at night
Say, can I make a bad mistake?
Say what it is I want to say
Say what?
Not sure I’ve ever heard a song as simultaneously haunting and joyful.
(Source: youtube.com)
— Tom Robbins, Another Roadside Distraction
Hmm.
[Via @kristinadeckert.]
— Eric Cantor, majority leader, on the House floor today
Heard this today (on NPR — IRONICALLY) in the car and burst out with a “HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!”
So much to call into question about this quote. “Often”? “Far”? “Most”?
Meanwhile, “Nearly two-thirds of Americans say Afghan war isn’t worth fighting,” according to the most recent ABC News/Washington Post poll — the Afghan war, which is costing American taxpayers $300 MILLION PER DAY. Sounds like something that veers from what most Americans would like to see as far as the expenditure of their taxpayer dollars.
The House’s vote today would save $22 million annually. Obviously, our priorities here in America are SPOT ON.
Stephen Reader at Death and Taxes says it best: “Fiscal austerity is all the rage now, but it’s really just an excuse to snipe the (relatively inexpensive) federal programs that Republicans don’t like.”
So yesterday’s hike turned out to be a snowshoeing adventure (the snow was still surprisingly deep — good thing I keep the snowshoes in the trunk), but this guy didn’t seem to care, so long as he got to chase scents off the trail and run through the mud and take snow baths and sit in 6 inches of cold water.
This New York Times piece is so true — no way I’d be outdoors nearly this much in the winter if I didn’t have Grady (and outdoors is so much better than a godawful treadmill, even in January).
Watch this. This is America, our America, and these are our neighbors, with barely any ends to make meet. Childhood poverty is about to reach 25 percent in the U.S. A QUARTER of all American children will soon be living in poverty, feeling like they’re to blame, studying under vehicle dome lights and living in cheap motel rooms, able to describe in great detail what it feels like to go to bed hungry. We get that 25 percent statistic using the government’s archaic poverty threshold, under which a family of four is considered impoverished when it brings in less than $22,000 per year. (For some admittedly hyperbolic perspective: During the income tax debates last fall, Fox Business contributor Tracy Byrnes said, in an Oct. 18 clip “The Daily Show” dug up last week, that for families of four sending kids to college, a $250,000 annual income was “close to poverty.”)
To use the eloquent words of my good friend @sixintl, if you can watch this and still think we should reduce deficits on the backs of the poor rather than inconvenience the wealthy, you’re heartless.
(Source: cbsnews.com)
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