Entries from July 2005
The inane person filling in for Andrew Sullivan attempted to make some equally inane point about Democracy.
They claim:
Democracies are messy but they work. I know that when one watches “Jaywalking,” one cannot but wonder. I believe the electorate is engaged in a mass exercise of Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Obviously this person [...]
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Sarah Vowell gets a jump on writing the ban-the-electoral-college-make and make-fun-of-unpresidential-last-names article in the New York Times.
By her count she is about 3 years early, but has this charming comment:
(I will go on the record as being against snowmobiles in Yellowstone - not because I’m an environmentalist but because I am not “fun.”)
Indeed. National [...]
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Using Mario to teach physics?
And I thought that monkey washing a cat was the be all and end all of human videographic achievement.
Watch and learn.
(Via Boing Boing)
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An ad agency out of Minneapolis has combined the two elements perfectly aligned with the purpose of burrito sales:
Mopeds
A Cowboy Monkey riding a dog
Catch the action in quicktime.
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Law professors Paul Gewirtz and Chad Golder have injected some much needed metrics into the debate over activist judges.
They theorize that the most activist action a judge might undertake is to invalidate a law. The more often judges oppose legislators, the more activist they are.
The tally for all the justices appears below.
Thomas 65.63 %
Kennedy [...]
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