But do check out Google’s homepage doodle, in honor of Douglas Adams’ 61st birthday. What’s on the agenda for the evening?
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But do check out Google’s homepage doodle, in honor of Douglas Adams’ 61st birthday. What’s on the agenda for the evening?
Monday Evening Open Thread: Don’t Panic, Mr. DentPost + Comments (127)
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. . The NYTImes chats with Dr. Neil Degrasse Tyson: … Is he saying that we treat science and mathematics shabbily in this country, where many people are all too proud to admit to a fear of all sums? Actually, Dr. Tyson said, “I don’t think the country’s less literate in math and science than …
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Sen. Carl Levin, poor ol’ Dignity-of-the-Senate Wonk, has announced he would not run for reelection in 2014. Of course the response among the Beltway’s Very Serious People has been almost entirely focused on the ‘horse race‘, but Dave Weigel posted Sen. Levin’s actual statement: … As Barbara and I struggled with the question of whether …
Carl Levin, Trying to Change the System from WithinPost + Comments (36)
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(Tom Toles via GoComics.com — click link for full-sized image) So, Jeb(!) Bush was scheduled to appear on five separate Sabbathday Gasbag shows today, which speaks volumes about the level of political discourse in our media. And if the Washington Post‘s preliminary report is an indicator, it’s going to be a loooong four years: President …
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. All the snow that Washington DC didn’t get at the end of the week ended up here in lovely New England, ten to twelve heavey wet inches of it right on top of our little homestead. The good part is, this being March, quite a lot of it melted away on Saturday; the less …
Sunday Morning Open Thread: Gardening DreamsPost + Comments (49)
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That last epithet is the one that usually sparked the fist-fight, when the people I grew up among started slanging each other. Which is why this clip from NYMag actually made me laugh: Peter King Will Get Punched in the Face Instead of Celebrating His Wife’s Birthday “It’s her birthday and she hates boxing,” U.S. …
Saturday Night’s for Fighting: Harps, Micks, Shanty Irish Bog-trotters…Post + Comments (72)
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(Sylvia via GoComics.com) Blogreading for a slow Saturday, from NYMag‘s Dan Amira: … All the way back in 1990, a lawyer who has been on the Internet longer than you have, Mike Godwin, introduced the now widely familiar Godwin’s Law, which predicted the inevitability of a Hitler or Nazi comparison arising during any online debate. …
Saturday Morning Open Thread: Loose TalkPost + Comments (37)