Rhymes for the times
From the incredible News & Verse:
NEWSWIRE–Barack Obama has selected U.S. Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware as his intended vice-presidential ticket-mate.
Using track as a guide,
Judge the running mate’s stride
As he sprints between north and deep south:
Can he dash down a phrase,
Trot it out where it pays,
Yet avoid running off at the mouth?
OverPhelpsed
ive me the underdog, the lovable loser, the undersized and overmatched nobody, the one-legged Latvian hurdler who suffered years of Soviet oppression and spent his last dollar to buy boat-fare for the 10-week trip to China and had to earn his keep scraping barnacles the whole way.
Keeping abreast of science and health
Well, today we have the ultimate evidence of the stupidity of political correctness. For years doctors have been pushing breast feeding as the ultimate panacea for child rearing. Now it turns out that, depending on the condition of the mothers, a child who is fed only with breast milk is quite likely to [...]
George Orwell on Eric Blair
Eric Blair lived an interesting life. It should come as a surprise to no one that this life was noted, recorded and dissected into the daily pages of a journal. Now into the blogosphere come daily notations made by the man who would take the nom de plume George Orwell published 70 years to the [...]
Cutting-Out the Journos; Obama and the Text-Message Business
I still don’t know what to make of this whole thing. That is, the Obama team’s text messaging its VP pick to special subscribers before the actual announcement. It may have been a gimmick, it may also have been brilliant. It may also have sounded the Death Knell of everything we’ve come to know as [...]
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