September 2008
82 posts
“I’m the new energy, the new face, the new ideas…”
– Palin, via Leoncrawl.
You can’t just say that. It’s sort of like “well, he’s known as the maverick” (as she said of McCain). Someone else has to describe you as “new energy” or “a maverick” because otherwise it is transparent and pathetic...
“literally eating a cupcake; i see the appeal, not gonna lie!”
– Leoncrawl, on twitter.
I think it’s pretty clear that the “literally” is necessary at this point, given all the issues around cupcakes these days. The question though: what is it to figuratively eat a cupcake?
I know there’s an answer, and it’s probably important.
“We don’t consider ourselves sea bandits. We consider sea bandits those who...”
– Interview with the Somali Pirate, Sugule Ali, via satellite phone from deck of a seized Ukranian merchant ship carrying heavy weapons, via Global Guerillas. (@hartman)
BIG NEWS EVERYONE →
“We never talk to ourselves, really. We engage these internal others in our...”
– Mark Pesce (better than Shirky). “This” is “hyperconnectivity”, but refering to internal psychic life as crowded is straight from Deleuze. Everyone is saying the same thing.
SDC Blog: Tweeting the Presidential Debate →
Basically an idea I stole from Leoncrawl. I still don’t really know if what I’m doing here is OK or worthwhile. I guess there are no rules…
Isn't this breaking some sort of rule? →
But I guess it’s a pretty important experiment. Maybe people should know when certain tumblrs are roommates?
So, having heard Mike Li compare Jaynes to a thousand-year-old vampire, one question immediately popped into my mind: “Do you get the same sense off me?” I asked. Mike shook his head. “Sorry,” he said, sounding somewhat awkward, “it’s just that Jaynes is…” “No, I know,” I said. I hadn’t thought I’d reached Jaynes’s...
“If money isn’t loosened, this sucker could go down.”
– President Bush, on the economy, at the big meeting yeserday (HuffPo)
“According to one GOP lawmaker, some House Republicans are saying privately that...”
– —Politico via Obsidian Wings
I don’t know where I really stand anymore. Keyhole? This must give you feelings.
“I saw the work performed by intelligence; smart was no longer a property, but an...”
– Eliezer, being a pseudo-Deleuzian
McCain's Debate Suspension Widely Mocked On... →
Again, EVERYTHING IS FALLING APART.
Polar bears resort to cannibalism as Arctic ice... →
Everything is falling apart.
I AM LOSING SO I DO NOT WANT TO PLAY ANYMORE!
What. The. Hell.
NEW YORK (CNN) — Republican presidential candidate John McCain announced Wednesday that he is suspending his campaign to return to Washington and focus on the “historic” crisis facing the U.S. economy.
The Arizona senator called on his Democratic rival, Barack Obama, to do the same. He also urged organizers of Friday’s presidential debate at the...
SDC Blog: Obama campaign and data mining →
So, I guess I also blog for my work? Some of my posts there are about things I might write about here, though it would look substantially different. Anyway, I guess I’m posting a link to something I just did there? We’ll see how this goes.
New developments on the internet
First is the fairly straight forward joebidenisyournewbicycle.com. A lot of it is pretty weak, some of the better ones include:
Joe Biden will wear his special hat, just for you
Joe Biden once shot a man in Reno for tax evasion
Joe Biden reads XKCD, but doesn’t get it
Joe Biden listens to a lot of Nick Cave when he’s depressed
Joe Biden is in the pantry, eating sealed packets of...
Elitist math
— $700 billion: proposed Wall St. bailout — $695.4 billion: GDP of Taiwan. If the bailout were a country it would be the 21st largest GDP, larger than most nations. — $653 billion: cost of Iraq war (so far) — $515.4 billion: proposed 2009 Pentagon budget — $315 billion: McCain’s nuclear energy plan — $295 billion: amount Pentagon overspent original...
Actually an email exchange
Me: there's demand that you get a tumblr. you're basically alienated from the life world.
Linguist: wouldn't want to be alienated from a world that wikipedia assures me is "the fundament for all epistemological enquiries". i will try to set one up this wkend.
She has been a candidate for the second highest office in the land for nearly a month, but Sarah Palin has yet to hold a single press conference. Now, the McCain/Palin campaign is attempting to take an unprecedented step in their apparent effort to protect Palin from having to face impromptu questions from national reporters. Last night, the campaign provided locations for Palin’s scheduled...
Wait, why?
Two McCain advisers told participants in a weekend retreat that his administration would discourage Israeli-Syrian peace talks and refrain from actively engaging in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. (JTA)
Americans 13 to 17 years of age sent or received an average of 1,742 text messages a month in the second quarter, according to Nielsen. And according to one survey commissioned by CTIA, 4 of 10 teenagers said they could text blindfolded. (NYT)
Perhaps her scripted nature was best on display Wednesday, when she joined McCain for her first town hall meeting in Grand Rapids, MI. After giving opening remarks with no new material, McCain tackled the first question on fighting terrorism. Palin quickly chimed in — “can I add something?” she asked McCain — and returned to lines she has used daily on McCain’s leadership for the...
"It is offensive to suggest that John McCain, a...
Um, there’s this thing in The Nation:
The Pentagon had been withholding significant information from POW families for years. What’s more, the Pentagon’s POW/MIA operation had been publicly shamed by internal whistleblowers and POW families for holding back documents as part of a policy of “debunking” POW intelligence even when the information was obviously...
“Everybody is a liar about everything always, so it is good that soon we will not...”
– Wonkette. Again, true!
Potentially a pretty important article...
“Feingold was perplexed that his colleague remained committed to maintaining, and even growing, an occupying force when some respected military minds believed such a force was only stoking the insurgency.
“It’s so ironic,” he would say, “because John [McCain] on these trips is reading military history, and the conversations on the plane are very substantive, and he...
keyholez:
“I am running because of the transcendent challenge of the twenty-first century, which is radical Islamic extremism, as you know.” (McCain)
Finally the immanence/transcendece debate gets some attention.
For the sake of sensationalism I will assert that...
A decade ago, McCain strongly supported policies of deregulation in the banking sector. And asked about the evolution of McCain’s thoughts on policies related to regulation, Duncan replied that it was a “patchwork of regulatory agencies” to blame for the current crisis, and that “better regulation was needed and not necessarily more regulation.” (First Read)
This I like especially. The problem...
Wait, what?
“So let me get this straight,” said Tucker Bounds, a spokesman for the McCain campaign. “They turned away Lindsay Lohan, but Barack Obama has friends like unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers and convicted felon Tony Rezko? Maybe LiLo is just too upstanding for Barack Obama.” (HuffPo)
“I find it interesting” that John McCain is obsessed with famously tragic...
When will Barack Obama apologize for this...
But on Thursday, the progressive group Brave New Films is prepared to list the names of 2,000 doctors who say McCain’s word is not sufficient on this score, and that he should release his entire medical records to the public. Previously, McCain made his medical records available to select members of the press for only a few hours — a time span during which electronic devices were...
“And by the time that debate was over, it seems that the young Eliezer - caught...”
– “Eliezer”
Are there bitters in Colorado?
We all know that Scarnton PA is the index of all authenticity claims and that the rustbelt manufacturing states are the most important things in the world. But all those “hard working Americans, white Americans” that Chris Matthews insists are the heart of the Democratic Party were Reagan democrats before they were ceiling cracks. Not to put too much faith in polls and such, but it...
“Unless people use capital productively, all the guarantees in the world...”
– the point is: never don’t be paranoid