My View of the Inauguration
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95. Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.)
— Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
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On a muggy Florida evening in 2008, I meet Iraq War veteran Forrest Fogarty in the Winghouse, a little bar-restaurant on the outskirts of Tampa, his favorite hangout. [Link]
The Labor Department announced this morning that new applications for jobless benefits rose to a seasonally adjusted 542,000 last week. It also revised the figure from the previous week down to 515,000. [Link]
A team from IBM has spent the past several years constructing a virtual-world version of China's Forbidden City. [Link]
Following confirmation that Google intends to open its virtual world Lively to games developers, creative director Kevin Hanna has revealed the long-term goal is for the service to become an online games platform. [Link]
CHIBA, Japan (AP) -- Video game rivals Sony and Microsoft are going head-to-head in virtual worlds for their home consoles later this year. [Link]
a) He was paid by Dick Cheney's henchwoman Mary Matalin to write a book on Obama [Link]
One bunch of guys is getting up and saying, "we hafta." Another bunch of guys is getting up and saying, "nuh-uh." [Link]
To be able to say to folks, "You can keep what you have" is a big political selling point. [Link]
Here, based on 16 years experience watching Bill Clinton campaign — and interviews with a half-dozen veterans of his political teams — is a reasonably safe bet about his campaign advice to Barack Obama: [Link]
WASHINGTON — Government officials handling billions of dollars in oil royalties improperly engaged in sex with employees of energy companies they were dealing with and received numerous gifts from them, federal investigators said Wednesday. [Link]
We are going to have a new administration. Do we want these policies continued or not? [Link]
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In sum, we concluded that the evidence showed that Goodling violated both federal law and Department policy, and therefore committed misconduct... [Link]
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January 23rd, 2009 at 12:15 pm
That’s beautiful, A.H.! Really, at an enormous event such as this, you and the people immediately surrounding you become your own event. Mr. Polly and I went to the peace marches and anti-Prop 8 demos here in NYC, never got near the main speakers, but had a deeply satisfying experience nevertheless. The sight of the crowd filling the Mall, the sound of them cheering (and booing), was amazing. I’d trade the experience of being frozen, tired, jostled, and having little view just for the joy of having been there. And you can always catch what you miss on YouTube. O brave new YouTube world.
January 23rd, 2009 at 12:30 pm
Thanks Mrs. Polly! You’re absolutely right, this isn’t an experience I would pass up for anything. Even warmth and a tv set. I feel bad for the folks who went through everything I did, and didn’t even get in.