McCain Vows to Eliminate Those Pesky E-Mail Taxes

Short today, even though I promise you I read both the WaPo and the NYT. The funniest thing I read though, was from John McCain’s economic plan, from his “Pro-Innovation Tax Cuts” section:
“Ban New Cell Phone Taxes: John McCain understands that the same people that would tax e-mail will tax every text message – and [...]

Facial Hair, Bruuudevold, Cool Dead Women, and Black Jews From Nebraska

Baseball, fund raising and silly facial hair. Sweet.
Voter turnout in North Dakota town is a big whopping zero. Mayor Darrel Brudevold wins (without even voting for himself)!
“Brudevold said he intended to vote, but that he had crops to tend.”
The title of the obituary already makes it a winner: “Dorothy King, 99; Proud Passenger [...]

A Little From the Sunday Post, a Little From the Sunday Times

A little from (almost) every section…
First, The Washington Post:
Magazine Section: Date Lab readers claimed that a monkey could do a better job setting up couples than the Post. Guess what? The monkey did a better job.
Style: A fashion review of the polygamist women’s garb

Metro: “Schoolyard face-offs” at my high school because of facebook [...]

Obama’s Campaign Now Brought to You By Abercrombie & Fitch

Anyone else watch Obama’s concession speech tonight? Yeah, there are three kids standing behind him, proudly airing their allegiance to, um, beautiful white people and overpriced clothing? Being cool in high school 7 years ago? Or maybe Barack took a card from Stephen Colbert and instead of Doritos, picked A&F.
Photo Credit: [...]

Subway Cars in the Ocean and Spring Break Primary

What do you do with old subway cars? Throw them in the ocean, of course, to create artificial reefs!
Also, I saw this on tv a few weeks ago. It’s too good not to share:

Like FDR, 3 terms…

Still a Day Behind

This is interesting, because I’ve found that people younger than us cannot write. At all. But apparently we’re not fairing that poorly as a nation: U.S. Students Achieve Mixed Results on Writing Test
If I titled this article it would be called “People in Rural Pennsylvania SWEAR they’re Not Racist, But They Totally Are”
Why [...]

Culture Wars?

Thank you Alex for another gem from E.J. Dionne Jr., who always has good things to say.
Culture Wars? How 2004.
“The era of the religious right is over. Even absent the rise of urgent new problems, Americans had already reached a point of exhaustion with a religious style of politics that was dogmatic, partisan [...]

Why the Newspaper is Better than the Internet

If you know me, you know I love my newspaper. (I love the internet too, but I like to read my newspaper.) Here’s a conversation I had last night when I should have been studying:
Alex: yeah, btw i think we are alike i LOVE reading the PAPER i hate the online version [...]

Weak on Real Articles, But Strong on Jews, Politics, Invisible Cats, and Scary Men in Flip Flops

Since I taught my Dad the fine skill of copying and pasting, he has sent me even more interesting websites than before! Here’s a breakdown of the Jewish vote in presidential elections. Sure it won’t interest many of you, but I think it’s fascinating. We like Democrats.
Also I stumbled upon this today: [...]

The New Voting Gap

Young people are finally voting! This year, “in some states, double and triple the number of voters younger than 30 have turned out for primaries, compared with 2006.” YAY! But, young people who are not in college are far less likely to vote. Here’s a great NPR piece on the youth [...]