February 2011
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“It’s like saying that there are more suicides around Christmas because...”
– Ret. Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, commenting on the link between the invasion of Iraq and the revolts in Tunisia and Egypt on the Ed Show.
ShortFormBlog: On Egyptian copycats and United... →
abbylovesfilm asks: Who do you think will be the next country in the region to follow in Tunisia and Egypt’s footsteps? 050458 asks: What are the implications of Mubarek stepping down on US-Egypt ties? After all, he was one of those dirty little dictators the US propped up
It strikes me that there are only three choices for governments in the Middle East: either they’re ruled by...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-30) →
Paramore (4)
Arcade Fire (4)
Nirvana (3)
Honest Bob and the Factory-to-Dealer Incentives (2)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs (2)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Speak2Tweet: Google makes Egypt's sucky day less...
shortformblog:
lame Egypt has shut down Noor, the last ISP standing in the country, leaving the country completely, utterly offline. Great work.
lame Egypt also plans to shut down the country’s mobile phone systems ahead of the planned “March of Millions” tomorrow. Very lame.
brilliant Google just bought a startup, SayNow, which made @Speak2Tweet, a Twitter account to get Egyptians’ voices on...
“The presence of the army in the streets is for your sake and to ensure your...”
– Egyptian army statement ahead of the coming Million Man March concretely confirming that it will not use force against protesters (via thepoliticalnotebook)
“About 10,000 people streamed into Tahrir Square, paying no heed to the curfew...”
– “In Tahrir Square, Egyptian protesters think the unthinkable – victory” Guardian (via thepoliticalnotebook)
“The American government cannot ask the Egyptian people to believe that a...”
– Mohamed ElBaradei • The would-be transitional leader of Egypt’s uprising against Hosni Mubarak came out forcefully against U.S. tact on the matter, speaking on CBS’ “Face The Nation.” President Obama and his government have absorbed much criticism over their failure to lend practical and...
January 2011
The Proposed Reforms To The "No Taxpayer Funding...
lazybookreviews:
I do not care why you want an abortion. You want an abortion? That’s good enough for me.
I am so happy to have my tax dollars pay for it. I would rather help a struggling young woman pay for an abortion than a) more unnecessary construction near my house, b) more subsidies for the corn and soybean industry, c) more studies on whether this abstinence thing is going to kick in,...
I don't know if this is common
themattsmith:
but I have a tendency to, when I look at a projection of a huge storm, feel jealous if someone is getting more snow than us. Like, “I want 16 inches of snow! How come they get 16 and I only get 12!?”
I’m pretty sure that I’ll eventually move to Syracuse specifically because of this.
“That would be a financial disaster not only for our country, but for the...”
– Speaker Of The House John Boehner • Appearing on Fox News Sunday, the Speaker waded into the debt ceiling issue, seeming to suggest that to his mind, failure to raise the limit would be unthinkable. The nature of Boehner’s unabashed candor is very surprising, considering the Republican voices who...
Who's driving the Egyptian revolution? →
theweekmagazine:
A look at key players in the uprising:
Internet-savvy 20-somethings The April 6 Youth Movement, made up of Internet-fluent Egyptians under 30, organized the first mass protest on Jan. 25 via social media sites. “The public here mocked those young people who had taken to Twitter and Facebook to post calls for protest,” says Egyptian author Mansoura Ez-Eldin in The New York...
“Many families in Egypt are fast running out of staples such as bread, beans and...”
– Okay so this is pretty bleak. Egypt imports a whole lot of its food supply, and people living in urban areas acquire basically all their food through shopping, so there’s a whole complicated supply chain upon which everyone is relying, and that’s breaking down. This probably puts a time limit of...
looks like the midwest is about to get its first...
themattsmith:
lefan-o-rama:
totals of ~1.5 feet in madison and ~2-2.5 feet in milwaukee.
smiths: ARE YOU READY? BUY MILK AND BREAD!
CAN’T WAIT. About damn time we got some respectable fucking snow. I was starting to feel like a damn FIB.
I cannot wait for a fucking proper Blizzard. The Trib tells me that our last one in Chicagoland was in 1999.
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Mista Putin looking at children #Putin Путин
whoismistaputin:
via cache.daylife.com
When did Donald Sutherland become Santa?
I just flipped on the SAG awards and his hilarious visage appears.
Samuel Rubenfeld's Tumblr: newsflick: Egypt shuts... →
newsflick:
Egypt shuts down Al Jazeera bureau
“The Al Jazeera Network strongly denounces and condemns the closure of its bureau in Cairo by the Egyptian government. The Network received notification from the Egyptian authorities this morning.
Al Jazeera has received…
The Political Notebook: … members of the army... →
thepoliticalnotebook:
… members of the army joined with a crowd of thousands of protesters in a pitched battle against Egyptian security police officers defending the Interior Ministry on Saturday afternoon.
Protesters crouched behind armored trucks as they advanced on the ministry building, hurling rocks and a few…
On the other hand to my last post, this story could indicate the...
I haven't caught the brown line a quincy in about...
I forgot that every pidgeon in Chicago lives here. I’m worried that they will overpower me. If I don’t survive this trip, tell people that I was cool…
Did I just barely make the train?
Like a Monday to Friday G6.
MSNBC is running this story about foreign tourists...
The basic theme is “Holy crap, everything has gone to shit. Why didn’t anybody warn us?” Which begs the question: how do you not know? Or more broadly, why wouldn’t you read a little news about the country that you’re going to visit?
The Political Notebook: If you’re just waking up,... →
shortformblog:
evanfleischer:
The U.S. has secretly been backing opposition figures for the past three years.
1,000 protesters have tried to storm the Interior Ministry.
The Washington Post wants Mubarak to go.
It seems the army is siding with the protesters.
Here’s Ian Black on why what Mubarak did…
Perfect timing.
Post-coital tristesse →
readmorewikipedia:
Sexual intercourse can sometimes lead to a feeling of melancholy called PCT, or post-coital tristesse. This is more common in men than in women.
A better-known reference is the Latin phrase Post coitum omne animal triste est —”After sexual intercourse every animal is sad”.
Ils, what is this fuckery? This is the saddest thing of little consequence that I’ve heard of...
