Ta-Nehisi Coates over at the Atlantic makes this, um, pugilistic point :
Electoral politics are about showing and proving–no amount of Affirmative Action can get you to the presidency. You have to compete and win. If you’re the sort of voter who shows up at one of these dead-end rallies, who likely believes that Obama never deserved the hype he got, that he was only a big deal because he was the “black guy,” then, yeah, you are liable to be stunned when he Buster Douglasses that ass.
Coates evokes the great upsetter “Buster” Douglas who all kinds of kicked Mike Tyson’s ass and topped the presumed master. Of course, Tyson never fell back into ageist mudslinging, since most people in the world understand that youth, energy, enthusiasm, and creative ingenuity are good things , especially coming from a man with the varied background (and pronounced lack of McCain Silver SpoonTM) of Barack Obama.
In what universe is McCain’...
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Democrats may tax health benefits - The Boston Globe WASHINGTON - In the last month of the presidential campaign, it was one of Barack Obama and Joe Biden’s strongest attack lines: John McCain, they warned, would “tax your healthcare benefits for the first time ever.”But now, some Congressional Democrats in charge of health reform are talking about doing just that. ... more
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Out in California, they recalled 143 million pounds of tainted beef. That’s one triple-stacked burger at Wendy’s. A hundred forty three million pounds of tainted beef! I believe that’s the largest amount of tainted meat since Roger Clemens.”
-David Letterman
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President-elect Barack Obama unveiled his national security team today, nominating Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state and choosing Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates to stay on as Pentagon chief.... more
Chicago, 1 Dic (Notimex).- El presidente electo de Estados Unidos, Barack Obama, anunció hoy la designación Hillary Clinton, quien fuera su rival por la candidatura presidencial del Partido Demó leer más ... more
If there is one message President-elect Barack Obama's transition team has broadcast about Cabinet picks, it is that ethnicity and gender will not be the first considerations when filling the slots. Credentials over tokenism, after all, was a fundamental principle of Obama's presidential...... more
Kid Beats Play From: hermenaut.org Post Date: 2008-11-10 05:10:28
If you haven't read this Ta-Nehisi Coates post , you really should, it's hilarious--even though he appears to be suggesting our great nation has had enough of Idris Elba , and that is very far from being the case. ... more
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Bowed piano From: aetataureate.com Post Date: 2008-09-15 17:42:07
Yesterday, thanks to my friend Mabel , I got to bow a piano. The bow was made of strands of fishing line tied and taped to pop tabs on each end. Mabel fed the bow through the strings, so essentially you play one note at a time by bowing all three of that key’s strings inside the piano.
The sound was different than I expected, really warm and ringing, because you’re playing multiple strings tuned to the same note. Also, something about the strings and the bow activated a lot of... more
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I know, that doesn’t make sense. Let me explain.
Twice this week I’ve read an article describing a challenge to the notion of average. This is not your typical self-esteem-based averageness discussion, but rather a more mathematical one posed just now by this New York Times article :
“If all the children, like those in Lake Wobegon, are above average, how could the school be failing?”
Yeah, seriously.
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My dad has joked for years that my mom commits plausible deniability — when you don’t remember, you claim you didn’t do or say the thing in question. Children are particularly tenacious at this because they don’t realize you realize they’re full of shit. Did you brush your teeth before bed? Well, no, you didn’t, because I can smell you from here.
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