Gay marriage is now legal in Washington, D.C., and Mexico City. It’s a time that makes it easy to be proud about being married. (Or to get legally married, if you haven’t already been able to do so yet.) To all of you couples now eligible for tax breaks and a bureaucratically-recognized thing for one [...]
I can’t say I’ve ever wanted to buy a six-year-old a beer before, but Falcon Henne has earned it. I mean, not only was he and his family on ABC’s “Wife Swap,” not only did he star in a totally awesome rap video with his brothers, but today, Falcon Henne goes down in history not [...]
I got a new job a few months ago. The work is amazing, and I’m having a great time. There’s just one problem – I don’t have health insurance with my new job until December and COBRA was way too pricey. Until my new plan kicks in, I’ve just been being very careful about everything. [...]
I mentioned Net Neutrality yesterday. It was somewhat vague, somewhat inarticulate, but mostly incoherent. I was very sleepy. It seems that NPR’s story on the topic (from the 21st) was similarly confounding for Jack Degolia. If that’s how you spell his name. He wrote in a letter to “All Things Considered,” “I had no clue [...]
Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi spoke to the U.N. today. And apparently, FCC regulations kept them from expressing exactly how batshit fucking crazy the guy’s speech was. If most of the world didn’t already know him as a dictator and harborer of terrorists (if not himself a terrorist, I’d probably hail the speech as comedic genius. [...]
I had a good day Wednesday. I was really enjoying what I was doing at work, and busted out some classic girl group sounds on my way home. It was a sunny, relatively cool day in Memphis, and traffic wasn’t that bad. But as I turned the car off of Poplar and on to I-240 [...]
Stop me, oh whoa oh, stop me – stop me if you think you’ve heard this one before: Scientists in the Philippines are working on some innovative new strains of rice, that rice procurement may be easier and prevent famine in places like Bangladesh. Wait a minute. Try comparing this text, from today’s story: In [...]
…obviously it is. At least that’s all I can think now, based on this headline from “Planet Money,” found on the NPR.org homepage. The awesome Laura Conaway notes, in this “Planet Money” blog post, that “In its letter, Goldman acknowledges using high-frequency trading but writes that its systems don’t see ‘client order flow.’” I’m not [...]
I’m noticing a big divide in opinion about art thanks to NPR. It seems like there are people who have a sense of humor and whimsy about art, and people who don’t. A few weeks ago, I posted about a giant traffic barrel statue that a college student made. In the story’s comments, there’s a [...]
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New York Governor Paterson Makes Rumors Fun Again
New York Governor David Paterson is dealing with rumors that he’s about to be accused of something bad – he’s already admitted ‘marital infidelity’ and cocaine use. The rumors are going crazy, and much like with Britney Spears, we think we know, but we don’t know. It’s gotten to the point that the rumors themselves [...]