“My administration does not like to lose, I’m very competitive … I wasn’t about to let the company that makes the world’s sexiest electric car go to another state.”
—Gov. Schwarzenegger, bringing sexy back.
July 2008
June 2008
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Clearly, this is the song of the summer.
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“Dutch researchers led by psychologist Ap Dijksterhuis at the University of Amsterdam recently found that people struggling to make relatively complicated consumer choices — which car to buy, apartment to rent or vacation to take — appeared to make sounder decisions when they were distracted and unable to focus consciously on the problem.”
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Science Journal - WSJ.com (via mikehudack)
Apparently, the case for doing work while both Gmail and Entourage are open, gChat and AOL Instant Messenger are plinking away, my Tumblr dashboard auto-refreshes in the background, and iTunes plays through the wifi office speakers; which is the default state of affairs around here.
“The liberty of the press was to be unrestrained, but he who used it was to be responsible in cases of its abuse; like the right to keep fire arms, which does not protect him who uses them for annoyance or destruction.”
—Massachusetts Chief Justice Parker, writing in 1825, as quoted today by Justice Scalia.
before you guys get all fucked off over today's Supreme Court ruling . . .
… I recommend you read the first part of section III of Scalia’s majority decision, which I quote below, minus citations:
Like most rights, the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited. From Blackstone through the 19th-century cases, commentators and courts routinely explained that the right was not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose. . . . [N]othing in our opinion should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms.
The only thing this decision really does is prohibit an absolute ban on firearms or the limitation of access to them by their owners, which is what the District of Columbia did. All your favorite restrictions on gun purchases, such as background checks and waiting periods and age limitations and all that, are left untouched and remain perfectly Constitutional.
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this one goes out to Jeff Rosenthal, who’s chillin’
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website names with (unintentionally?) ironic meanings
e·vite [i-vahyt] –verb. Archaic.
to avoid; shun.
( via the dictionary )
The only reason this came up is that somebody played it against me in Scrabulous, and I took issue. Next thing I’ll learn, I’m sure, is that “tumblr” is 13th century Old English for “illiterate octogenarian.”
I know this presumes a lot, but I'm going to make a prediction here:
One day, in your lifetime, Barack Obama’s face is going to be on money.
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it's like "Spitting Image," only . . . not.
In a dream I had on Saturday night I wrote a sitcom pilot in which George Bush was the main character, a “Kramer” type who spoke mostly nonsense. He had a catchphrase — “Safe!” — which he shouted like a major league umpire on a close call at home plate, and which surfaced in response to some other character’s challenge to his most recent buffoonish statement. In my dream, this catchphrase was not just riproariously funny, it was a brilliant satirical mockery of Bush’s national security legacy.
When I woke up, I had no idea what the hell I was talking about.
State-by-State Seasonal Food Map →
epicurious.com
One potential casualty of the world food market is the recollection that most produce has its own time. I’m usually disheartened to see watermelons on sale at Ralph’s in December.
( via sayyes: thelinkfamily )
