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August 31, 2007

Evidence I am an East Coast Person

Because find this:

infinitely funnier than this:

Note: will waste a total of about 6 minutes of your life.

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August 18, 2007

Dean in the news

Via Weather Underground:

Hurricane Dean put on an impressive round of rapid intensification last night, deepening 49 millibars in just 24 hours. Dean is now a major Category 4 hurricane with 150 mph winds.
Woohoo!

My friend who lives on the Gulf Coast, hoping I can do something to prevent Dean's landfall asks:

Can't you talk to your people? Isn't there some sort of Dean collective that we can appeal to?
Sorry. The Dean wants to do what the Dean wants to do.

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August 16, 2007

Things I missed.

I've been tired and busy, and haven't had much time for blogging or even doing anything that would provide me with material to blog about. Since my last post, I missed mentioning:

Left Handers' Day, August 13th

Back to School Must-Haves via Tom's Hardware

Kathy Griffin is dating Apple Cofounder Steve Wozniak! (whom I've seen in person)

I mention the voting-gives-you-the-right-to-complain rule in the comments of Ann Arbor is Overrated, and a creepy old man runs out his front door screaming, "You damn kids! Get off my lawn!"

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August 3, 2007

Men's Ties: Nooses

Let me help promote my friend metrokitty who has contributed a comic for The Girls' Guide to Guys' Stuff where she muses on neckties.

Lately, when I need to dress up, I've been trying to go tie-less-- jacket, dress-shirt, and no tie. The problem is that this has become deemed the "Ahmadinejad Look" by certain members of the press, owing to the tie-less President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran (ties being a sign of "western decadence" in Iran). Even Matthew Yglesias jokes that he has "a pretty sweet hipster style".

That said, among DC'ers, it's a pretty popular look, probably owing to the hot weather. Certainly a better choice than wearing a seersucker suit.

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August 2, 2007

Small Government in Action

"My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub." - Grover Norquist, Americans for Tax Reform

Or, at least, drown people:

May 16, 2007

Pawlenty Vetoes Transportation Bill

Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty has vetoed a transportation funding bill, setting up what should be a close override vote in the DFL-controlled state House of Representatives.


Ideas have consequences.

Suddenly: "Big Government" ordered to inspect bridges

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