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This is hilarious.

"Paddington Ghost" Dan Deacon

Yay! New Dan Deacon video!

Paddington Ghost

Love it. Its a perfect video for Dan Deacon: handmade and artificial, deceptively simple and playful in it's complexity. And it still looks more realistic than Avatar.

"Actual Details" Are Nice

Actual Details?

What do you know? When people read the "actual details" of the Obama health care plan a majority support it. Come to think of it, what manner of details are the opposite of "actual details"? Oh, that's right... lies.

Lies.

Is that so hard?

Come on people, we're trying to have a society here

why? i mean, just... why?

Periodic Table sweater

Very Nice.

But isn't the symbol Lawrencium Lr now, not Lw?

Socialize Medicine Protest FAIL

Protester's at Rep. Lloyd Doggett's (D) Healthcare event in Austin, Texas. I guess Obama is a Nazi as well as a Marxist? Just Godwin's Law in action.

A Beer Jag

I cannot erase my nightmares of a world without beer. A world unquenched, where death mocks the exclusive Beechwood Aging Process. Where the words taste, smoothness, and drink-ability turn to ashes in our parched mouths. An inhospitable hell realm where robot armies descend from the heavens bearing naught but scorn for flavor and refreshment, leaving an endless unshakable thirst. A place of misery where the human soul, now shadowed from the light of divine grace, is forced into exile from God’s own beer garden and made to wander, lager-less, with no ales or pilsners to protect it.

The Prez, The Press, The Pressure

An irritating article from Howard Kurtz on the media and Obama.

"...Obama's professorial style of explaining policy at length, rather than offering punchy sound bites, may serve him well, but rarely yields dramatic headlines."And this is a bad thing? A president who actively and substantially engages the country in a dialogue concerning the government policies that will shape their lives? That is a bad thing? Really? And cry me a river if, "the networks 'absolutely' feel pressured... It's an enormous financial cost when the president replaces one of those prime-time hours. The news divisions also have mixed feelings about whether they are being used."

The news divisions are being given more access to the president who is offering more substance on the news of the day and they are feeling as if they are being used. Huh. And the networks are crying about losing money. Can someone remind them that they are being given free use of the public's airwaves?

Do you want your firefighting to be like going to the DMV?

Good item from Tina Dupuy, editor of Mediabistro's FishbowlLA on the switch from private to socialized firefighting.

I did enjoy this dig in particular:

"Because Republicans (who are in the government) will readily tell you - the government never does anything right. Which explains why the most popular people in their Grand Old Party no longer hold any personally "taxing" jobs in the government (Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee and as of Sunday, Sarah Palin), opting (fittingly) for private political gigs."

The government is so bad at doing things that I'll quit the government. Wag that dog.