Relevant to Romney’s current gay-rights stance: This 2002 flyer, uncovered by BuzzFeed.
A Not-So-Obvious Question
npr:
So I’m getting my visa at Beirut’s airport this afternoon and the immigration officer says, “I need to ask you a question.”
“Okay,” I said.
“Please spell obvious.”
“Excuse me?” I replied.
“Perhaps I did not ask correctly; spell obvious, please.”
“You mean O B V I O U S?”
“Yes,” he continued. “Now please pronounce it.”
“Obvious.”
“So it is OB-vi-ous and not ob-VI-ous in English?”
“Yes.”
“Okay, you may go now. Welcome to Lebanon.”- @acarvin
Paul Krugman is usually one of the sharpest observers of politics in this country, and in this article he makes an excellent case that the resolution of the debt ceiling “crisis” is nothing short of a disaster for Obama and the country.
The Republican House that failed to raise the debt ceiling would somehow escape all blame. Then Democrats would have no choice but to pass a balanced-budget amendment and reform entitlements, and the tea-party Hobbits could return to Middle Earth having defeated Mordor.
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| — | John McCain • Ripping the Republican Party on the Senate floor. He later derided House Republicans’ approach to the debt-ceiling discussions as “the kind of crack political thinking that turned Sharron Angle and Christine O’Donnell into GOP Senate nominees.” source (via • follow) |
The First World Problems Rap (by funnyz)
LATE NIGHT, BY THE NUMBERS:
The Tonight Show With Jay Leno
Male writers: 19
Female writers: 1Conan
Male writers: 17
Female writers: 1The Colbert Report
Male writers: 16
Female writers: 1The Late Show With David Letterman
Male writers: 13
Female writers: 1Lopez…
We’ve been remiss the past few weeks in highlighting some of the great new Tumblr blogs from major media companies. No longer! A look at some of the good media projects that have launched on Tumblr in the past few months.
- The LA Times returns with a sharp, engaging Tumblr blog that…
