January 2010
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1/27/10: P.T. Barnum day?
A thought that occurred to me last night: yesterday you had two of the most captivating and charismatic speakers of the past 25 years, Barack Obama and Steve Jobs, making highly anticipated and possibly historically notable presentations within hours of each other. Both delivered in a big way, Obama with his first State of the Union and Jobs with his long-hinted Tablet (still having trouble...
The Most Suspicious Attention
claytoncubitt:
“To widen the market and to narrow the competition, is always the interest of the dealers… The proposal of any new law or regulation of commerce which comes from this order, ought always to be listened to with great precaution, and ought never to be adopted, till after having been long and carefully examined, not only with the most scrupulous, but with the most suspicious...
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The Fall - To NK Roachment: Yarbles
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The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms
Yes, it’s the...
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Richard Hell & the Voidoids - Blank Generation
thedarkspark:
I should probably start some kind...
A Prop. 8 trial should be pretty spectacular →
squashed:
It will include testimony from all sorts of experts on both sides. And
[Judge] Walker decided to show the trial on a delayed basis on YouTube.com and to broadcast it live, when time zones permit, at federal courts in San Francisco, Pasadena, Seattle, Portland, Ore., and Brooklyn, N.Y.
Where have you gone, Clarence Darrow…a nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
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Elliott Smith - Kings Crossing
I’m pretty...
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The Cure - Disintegration
That’s right,...
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