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05/09/2008

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04/09/2008

Sod off, Palin

I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a “community organizer,” except that you have actual responsibilities. - Sarah Palin

I’ve seldomly worked as hard in my life as in the past half year. Social work and the subcategory of community organizing is tough and hard, even when it’s just studying. Even within the safety of college, people already rely on you to bring (some) joy or improvement within their lives. This is a huge responsibility. It’s not some far-away-from-the-people experience where you sign bills to get people into debt that you don’t have to meet. No responsibilities? Sod off, Palin.

(note, I’m not really personally offended or anything, but intellectual outrage once in a while satiates my ego)

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» CNET: Google's Omnibox could be Pandora's box

What’s more, Google has every intention of retaining some of that data even after it provides the promised suggestions. A Google representative told CNET News that the company plans to store about 2 percent of that data—and plans to store it along with the Internet Protocol address of the computer that typed it.

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03/09/2008

Andrew Halcro - The bridge to somewhere

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01/09/2008

Words That Will Help You Win Scrabble

“1. Aa. And I don’t mean the acronym for Alcoholics Anonymous, either. Aa is “basaltic lava having a rough surface.”
2. Qat – a flowering plant native to East Africa and the Arabian peninsula.
3. Zax – a slater or slate mason, or the tool used to cut and punch nail holes in roofing slate.
4. Cwm – a valley, especially one created by glacial movement. Be warned: this one won’t get you many points, but it is good for using up pesky, low-score consonants taking up valuable space on your rack.
5. Xu – Vietnamese money
6. Qua – as or as being, or in the character of.
7. Suq – a market, or part of a market, in an Arab city.
8. Adz – an axe-like tool.
9. Jo – sweetheart or dear
10. Qadi – a judge in the Muslim community.”

(via rocketboom via Mental Floss)

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But her eager partisans should find talking points that don’t involve congratulating Alaska’s favorite hockey mom for having a son with Down Syndrome. My mother did, and no one gave her a medal (or made her veep). She didn’t consider it high heroism not to kill her baby because he came with an extra chromosome.

Have even pro-lifers adopted the eugenic assumption that a genetically imperfect child is less deserving of life?

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The American Conservative » Double Standard-Bearers

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“ Soccer doesn’t take off in the US because you can’t break for adverts every 5 minutes. „

Benroone @ BuzzMachine

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“ It’s become fashionable — particularly among a certain kind of Stevensonian elite — to dismiss Obama’s oratory and rhetoric as, by definition, insubstantial. The implication, often explicit, is that his audiences are rubes, idiots spellbound by a lot of pretty talk. But it is precisely the substance, not the style, of Obama’s oratory that has been winning over his audiences. That substance is egalitarian, democratic, inclusive and aspirational — precisely the opposite of elitist or condescending. „

slacktivist: Favorite teachers

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30/08/2008

Some people are predicting that Palin will let out an unending stream of gaffes in response to interviews in the American media or during campaign appearances. That’s something to hope for. My prediction, however, is that the media will be politically correct and soft on her to an extreme and lob her mostly softballs, since otherwise people might just accuse them of setting her up!

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29/08/2008

Most overused language of the day: “putting someone a heartbeat away from the presidency”

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