October 2008
132 posts
September 2008
68 posts
I’d like to use one of my life-lines and like just about everyone else, I’m considering proposing to Tina Fey.
This is exactly the time when the American people NEED to hear from the person...
– Barack Obama (via mikehudack) (via whitneymcn)
Masters of Distortion
I have tried, unsuccessfully, to keep politics out of this site, only because it ends up permeating every other aspect of my life and so I thought maybe I should take a break here. It was a dumb idea and I’m dropping the pretense — all this just matters too much.
The following is from an email Michelle forwarded over:
Republicans: The Masters of Distortion By Roger Freedman
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whitneymcn:
Their music isn’t grabbing me right off, but you *need* to read the Airborne Toxic Event’s open letter to Pitchfork: http://is.gd/2NRV
Plane crashes in to the word trade center. Apologies for not linking to anything...
– MetaFilter Comment Thread from 9/11
As with everything on the internet, the comments deterioriate into half-truths and political demogoguery, but this is still a truly haunting account of the 9/11 tragedy as it was unfolding.
Launch day of Toronto’s first scramble intersection at Yonge and Dundas.