Where do you start when you hear everything at once?
The cooperative where I work got some welcome media attention tonight courtesy of Bill Moyers Journal. It’s inspiring to hear it from someone else’s mouth — especially when someone else is Jim Hightower. Watch the video at this link. The cool stuff (beginning about 15 minutes into the video) is transcribed below. JIM HIGHTOWER: Well, [...]
Why is the Wisconsin State Capitol dome bathed in blue light? The Wisconsin Department of Administration Website has the answer: From bunnyblinks Thanks to Ramy for the tip! Update: Apparently, last time the Capitol was lighted blue was for a slightly different cause. Another update: Credit where it’s due. This guy snapped a gorgeous pic [...]
via Senator Ted Kaufman — Senator for Delaware: Newsroom – Press Release. Kaufman also reiterated his belief, expressed in several previous floor speeches, that the only way to “truly eliminate” the problems of “too-big-to-fail” banks is to break them apart, thus limiting their size and leverage. “The Great Depression of the 1930s must be avoided [...]
Romney Wins SRLC Straw Poll By One Vote | TPMDC. It’s early on, but this strikes me as good news. If Mitt were to win the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, disgruntled teabaggers would surely need to run a third party against Socialist Mitt. Splitting the right-wing vote promotes the idea of a viable third (or [...]
I started things off before bed at 4:30 this morning watching A Serious Man with friends. Sculpted from the Book of Job, it’s clearly an Old Testament movie. Sure there’s the dybbuk, but leave this anxiety-filled movie for your Fall viewing schedule. Then there’s the hot dog paella. You gotta give me that these aren’t [...]
My sister, singing along to Akon while driving my nephew home from school: That girl is so dangerous. That girl is so dangerous. That girl is a bad girl. I’ve seen her type before. My nephew, inquiring with surprising innocence: I don’t get it, Mom. What could be so dangerous about the way she types?
A rough week at work led to a short break for daydreaming toward the end of my shift tonight. Recently, daydreams tend toward thoughts about my mom, who died last month. Tonight’s catalyst was “Manuela,” the name of the woman on the other end of the phone. Enter (brain right) another “Manuela,” this one played [...]
My 10-year-old nephew reports that my 66-year-old dad has announced plans to patent the video game “Tuba Hero.” According to my nephew, what’s truly funny about this pronouncement is that he can’t tell if his grandpa is joking. In other tangentially guitar-hero related news, my 7-year-old niece is working on a re-write of Survivor’s “Eye [...]
Tangents for the Chasing
