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Hurricane Prep Open Thread

By jason330 August 26, 201149 Comments

I think that we are conditioned by TV news to think that weather events like this approaching storm are over-hyped, ratings-chasing, bullshit. I hope that this storm turns out to be over-hyped, ratings-chasing, bullshit.

Steve Jobs Understood Something About Human Beings That Republicans Get and Democrats Don’t

By jason330 August 26, 20117 Comments

I've been reading a lot of Steve Jobs commentary and this clicked. It is from actor/comedian/technophile, Stephen Fry who was a long time friend of Jobs.

President Cantor Issues Disaster Spending Executive Order

By jason330 August 25, 20118 Comments

God oh mighty this shit is depressing.

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) will extend his requirement that federal disaster relief be paid for by cutting spending elsewhere in the budget to Hurricane Irene.

Fast Company’s Steve Jobs Post is the Best I’ve Read so Far

By jason330 August 25, 20114 Comments

It discusses Jobs' particular genius:

"Steve Jobs may not be the greatest technologist or engineer of his generation. But he is perhaps the greatest user of technology to ever live, and it was Apple's great fortune that he also happened to be the company's founder."

Hurricane Checklist

By jason330 August 25, 201111 Comments

Here is a super-paranoid version cribbed from a dkos diary. The basics: [ ]Flashlights [ ] batteries [ ] candles [ ] Battery-operated radio and/or TV. [ ] More batteries…

I’m Calling The GOP Race for Perry

By jason330 August 25, 201129 Comments

It is going to be Perry. I'm running 97.6% correct on these prognostications, so scoff at your own risk. The GOP can't escape it's basic programming. It is hard wired to pick the strict daddy figure. Republicans are children who...

Now We Know What Caused The Earthquake

By MJ August 24, 20118 Comments

Apparently gay marriage is responsible for yesterday's earthquake along the East Coast. So says Rabbi Yehuda Levin. Levin, who is involved with NOM (the anti-marriage equality group), claims that the…

“Teabag” Tom Kovach to Take on John Carney

By jason330 August 24, 201120 Comments

He is looking at it. You have to read between the lines, but it is there. It is a shame, really. I liked Kovach for about ten minutes before he realized that he needed to become a nutbag to run statewide as a Republican.

R. I. P. Jerry Leiber: Part 2

By El Somnambulo August 23, 2011

And the hits just keep on comin'. Here is some more of Jerry Leiber's work over the years.

Here It Is!: Tom Waits’ Private Listening Party

By El Somnambulo August 23, 20116 Comments

And you're not invited: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeTja7JXK9A[/youtube]

DC’s New Theme Song

By MJ August 23, 20111 Comment

Earthquake!

By nemski August 23, 201123 Comments

Earthquake hits outside D.C., and measures 5.8 on the Richter Scale. It was felt up and down the East Coast, including here in Delaware.

R. I. P. Jerry Leiber: Part 1

By El Somnambulo August 23, 20116 Comments

One-half of one of the best and most influential songwriting teams of the rock 'n roll era has passed away. The late Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller combined to create some of the most remarkable music of our lives. And the lyrics are tres tres cool and sometimes downright weird.