I was just chatting with Drunkenbatman on Messenger. What follows is a lightly edited copy of our conversation. drunkenbatman says: was dealing with some wedding stuff aaron says: huh? aaron says: who’s getting married? drunkenbatman ...
Taken from the transcript at Daily Kos: Now, I know there are some polls out there saying this man has a 32% approval rating. But guys like us, we don’t pay attention to the polls. We know that polls are just a collection of statistics that refle...
I’ve been going (and will be going) to quite a few concerts recently - Coldplay, Ben Lee, Belle and Sebastian/New Pornographers, Sigur Ros, Snow Patrol, etc (not the Arctic Monkeys, though, sadly). The one thing each show has in common is that I p...
Stodgy Seattle corporate law firm, Perkins Coie, is defending Osama Bin Laden’s former bodyguard and chauffeur. The rationale: Yes, they’re helping a suspected terrorist. But it’s not an example of “you’re with us or you’re with them.” It’s what m...
“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serv...
