Sarah Palin visits Canada
“Believe it or not — this was in the ’60s — we used to hustle on over the border for healthcare that we would receive in Whitehorse,” she told the crowd.
“I remember my brother, he burned his ankle in some little kid accident thing, and my parents had to put him on a train and rush him over to Whitehorse and I think, isn’t that kind of ironic now. Zooming over the border, getting healthcare from Canada?”
Yes, actually, that is ironic.
Fred Phelps visits the Supreme Court
“How these soldiers are living and dying is a topic of substantial public interest and dialogue, at least nationwide, probably worldwide. The prevailing view is that the soldiers are heroes, and that God is obligated to bless America,” Phelps’ lawyers wrote. “Those views clash with the Bible, in respondents’ sincerely held religious opinion, and when these funerals are used to express those viewpoints, respondents feel duty-bound to provide a countervailing message, to wit, if you want God’s blessings, you have to obey him, and if you want the soldiers to stop dying, you have to stop sinning in this nation.”
When stupidity, freedom of speech, and freedom of religion collide.
DFW, Annotated
Kottke links to the newly established David Foster Wallace archives at the University of Texas. The image above is the inside cover of Wallace’s heavily annotated copy of John Updike’s Rabbit, Run.
Apple. Not yet eaten.
Charming Lands at Fotofest
A group of 11 photographers I am involved with called Charming Lands is participating in Fotofest in Houston.
We created a group exhibition at Box 13 entitled Panta Rei.
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 13, 7-9:30pm. I hope you can stop by.
Weekly Picture 178
Woman on Her Cell Phone, Austin, TX 3.8.2010
from the comments
I guess old people can’t afford good bread.
iKey
Apple has filed a patent that would allow the iPhone to act as a universal remote for locked doors.
The device can communicate with an external device to open a lock. By way of example, the electronic device may be a model of an iPhone.
The external device may be any suitable electronic device such as a portable media player, personal data assistant or electronic lock that may be used to access a door, car, house or other physical area.
what was up with that weird Oscar moment?
Burkett also accuses Williams of not passing along invites to parties the two were invited to for the film, and even says that her race to the stage was intentionally impeded by Williams’ mother’s cane.
How do they relate — they don’t — they’re just two things we like so we’re smushing them together
Beck – Tropicalia
I figured I would go old school today.
Year 4~Day 82 +53/365 AND Day 1178: Necessity is the Mother of Invention
From a Flickr set by Old Shoe Woman.
I just used everything in the refrigerator to make a sandwich for brunch.
Lessig on Conservatives
Incidentally, when I was sixteen, I was doing work for the New York Republican State Committee during the 1996 Republican National Convention. (hat tip to Luke)
‘Google Underground’
Just last month, the Pentagon’s risk-taking research arm, DARPA, announced plans for a program called ‘Transparent Earth’. They’re spending $4 million this year on preliminary plans for a digital, 3D map that would display “the physical, chemical and dynamic properties of the earth down to 5 kilometer depth.”
hand models
From a compendium of hand models — who they are, what they are famous for — the faces behind the hands:
During a photo shoot in 1983, Elizabeth Barbour says she “tilted her hand in such a way” that the photographers captured the perfect shot of her hand grazing a glass. The shot was the basis for the redesign of the Palmolive soap label, which is still around to this day. She was paid $650 for the shoot and calls the experience “one of the funniest things I’ve ever done.”
Two of the models talk about hand cream and constant gloves.
Scott Wade’s dirty car art
Wade is a painter who, unlike his peers, uses dirty cars as his canvas.
Also, he’s from San Marcos, Texas.
Sleep Is Death
Jason Rohrer’s preview of his new game, Sleep Is Death. I almost forgot to post this, but Andy’s link reminded me of it.
Beard Law
In case you were curious about the steps one must take in order to grow a beard at Brigham Young University:
A student who wishes to obtain a beard exception must visit a BYU Student Health Center doctor by appointment. The doctor will fax his recommendation. The student then needs to come to the Honor Code Office to fill out some paperwork and receive the letter allowing the growth of the beard, if approved. If a yearly beard exception is granted, a new Student ID will be issued after the beard has been fully grown, and must be renewed every year by repeating the process.
I didn’t see anything about shape or length. I can only assume such deliberations are left to their shaven Mormon elders.
Reconciling Reconciliation
Bill Frist, a former Senate majority leader, called reconciliation an “arcane” procedure that Congress has “never used … to adopt major, substantive policy change.” Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee asserted that this parliamentary tactic was unprecedented for a bill like health reform. Senator John McCain of Arizona said that the use of reconciliation would have “cataclysmic effects.”
So, would reconciliation represent an anomalous and dangerous power grab? The accompanying chart, which lists 15 major reconciliation bills passed by Congress since the process was first used in 1980, provides evidence for assessing that charge.
Reconciliation was intended to be a narrow procedure to bring revenues and spending into conformity with the levels set in the annual budget resolution. But it quickly became much more. The 22 reconciliation bills so far passed by Congress (three of which were vetoed by President Bill Clinton) have included all manner of budgetary and policy measures: deficit reductions and increases; social policy bills like welfare reform; major changes in Medicare and Medicaid; large tax cuts; and small adjustments in existing law.
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Subway Sing-A-Long
Musicians in a Times Square subway station convince waiting commuters to sing along with the end of Hey Jude.
dear clusterflock
3D.
Micah P Hinson – Seems Almost Impossible
quote out of context
Ms. Travers disappeared by hiding in plain sight, living quietly with her parents in the house in Clifton, N.J., in which she had grown up. She remained there till well past middle age, through the death of her father in the 1980s and her mother in 1995. Afterward, she moved to a condominium nearby.
SMITH & WESSON ALLIED FORCES PISTOL DISASTER READY KIT
* S&W Allied Forces Pistol
* First aid kit
* Emergency food for 4 people (for 3 days)
* Water purification tablets
* 44 Mag Multi-Tool
* 4 space blankets
(thanks, Aaron)
Chip Foose John Deere Tractor
