Per aspera

Today is the anniversary of The Moominite Terror Attack, when Boston authorities shut down half the city in order to “detonate” a few dangerous looking Lite-Brites, and apparently, some civic-minded locals decided to commemorate our Day that Will Live in Mockery.

Both from LGM, both concerning the mesmerizing campaign of Benito Giuliani.
My question is this: if Giuliani does indeed endorse McCain, will he and Joe Lieberman have to fight it out for biggest asshole on the McCain campaign trail? And who would win?
-Bean, discussing what may be the mightiest gathering of Men of Principle in our […]

Awesome post about Obama, Clinton, and South Carolina at Jack and Jill Politics.
The Media’s Three-Fifth’s Compromise
What upset me was the dismissiveness towards the South Carolina Primary.
A prevailing attitude comprised of, if Barack Obama wins South Carolina:
1. He only won because he’s Black
2. It doesn’t REALLY count as a win because of the sizeable […]

Caroline Kennedy’s Political Romanticism
She says that Obama could be a president like her father. I assume that means that he’ll be overrated, not that he’ll bring us to the brink of nuclear war.
Ramesh Ponnuru at NRO. The guy’s an asshole, but in this case* funny is funny.
(via Matt Yglesias)
*The most important feature of this […]

So remember that laptop I’m puttering with? It wouldn’t, under OS X.2, sign onto any wireless networks that required authentication. I solved that problem by yanking the password protection off my home network, leaving it free and open to everyone, because the set of “everyone” in this case includes me.
That I might experience […]

And it came to pass that global capitalism became too clever for itself by half, and stopped working so well, and threatened to pull itself into a bit of a death spiral.
So people are talking bailout.
Here’s my proposal. I offer it at no charge to any member of Congress, presidential candidate or editorial writer willing […]

I have nothing interesting to say, so I’m going to link you to interesting things others are saying:
Glenn Greenwald describes Your Harry Reid-led Senate in action:
Harry Reid — who has (a) done more than any other individual to ensure that Bush’s demands for telecom immunity and warrantless eavesdropping powers will be met in full and […]

On the Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society, I found a post about hole punch clouds, which took me to this perfectly wonderful site: The Cloud Appreciation Society. The very existence of a Cloud Appreciation Society website makes me happy and full of love for humanity. Then from this image of a tornado, […]

Joel Johnson went on a web show sponsored by OCP, ostensibly for a conversation about gadgets, but went off and wouldn’t stop talking about Robocop.
Yesterday, I was invited to talk about gadgets onThe Hugh Thompson Show, a television-style talk show sponsored exclusively by AT&T for distribution on the online AT&T Tech Channel. I eventually did […]

I haven’t seen Cloverfield yet. I plan to. But it’s my understanding that the monster in Cloverfield isn’t Cthulhu, though there was some wishful thinking in that direction when the first trailer came out.
I wish it had been, though. Part of what’s compelling about Lovecraft’s narrative voice is that he only gives […]

Since I didn’t post yesterday, making my planned week of daily posts a success for exactly one day, I’ll give you two today.
Here then is a link I’ve been meaning to post, to a review by Rick Perlstein of Jane Fonda’s War: A Political Biography of an Anti-war Icon, by Mary Hershberger. A little […]

Let us return to the subject of Lovecraft and the inevitable death of not only ourselves, but our civilization, our race, our planet, and any memory or trace of ourselves or our posterity, annihilated inevitably by the very universe that spawned us, and speak of Charles Stross.
Stross’ story A Colder War draws a […]

The obsessive desire to make electronics into choking hazards seems a bit misguided to me.
Ezra Klein, on the Macbook Air
This doesn’t count as my promised post for today, by the way.

I will blog tonight. And every night for the next week. But I won’t necessarily have anything useful to say. For instance, tonight, I just want you to read things that other people have to say. Start with this post on Feministe about a very good Bob Herbert column that has […]

All my Michigan Democratic peeps (do I have any Michigan Democratic peeps?), you know what to do.
(I believe this was all Kos’ idea)
(via Making Light)