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But I will be known as the sweetest autocrat ever...

On sad and wilting iPhones

AT&T regarding Verizon’s latest batch of TV ads: The image of the sad and wilting iPhone on an island of misfit toys falsely communicates that the iPhone is a broken device. </param></param></param></embed>

Me too...

At least this finally explains my love/hate relationship with Wisconsinites.

Olympia Snowe (R-ME) is screwed

…but Olympia Snowe (D-ME) might have a chance. I bet she and Joe Biden have lunch sometime this week.

OK, it's settled: Bart Stupak is a dickhead

I just kind of assumed he was a garden variety jerkoff before, but this clinches the deal for me. Bart Stupak is seriously a dickhead: A day before the bill passed out of committee, Stupak co-sponsored, and voted for an amendment written by Rep. ...

A fitting coda on things past

From Paul Krugman: [T]here’s this awkward fact that markets have, you know, gone up under Obama. And this isn’t just a phenomenon of the last few months. Look back at stock returns under recent presidents, which is easy using a clever gadget at ...

Time for Olympia to pull an Arlen

I mean, don’t get me wrong, Arlen is completely screwed in 2010, but that shouldn’t make Olympia Snowe think for a second that switching parties is a bad idea. Cuz, let’s face facts: she’s going down in 2012’s Republican Senatorial Primary in Main...

Obama honors the dead at Fort Hood

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Plugins and Gems for Ruby on Rails that I've known and loved

There are a bajillion “best of” lists for Rails gems and plugins out there. I thought I’d contribute one more with some less well-known gems and plugins that I rely upon every day. Haml - A terse, elegant view-level syntax that replaces icky, ol...

More on Health Care Reform

What are the differences between the now-passed House bill and the Senate version? Dennis Kucinich voted against the HCR bill in the House, of course. You've gotta be pretty snowed by Ann, Glenn, Michelle, Rush, and the rest of your news sourc...