Per aspera

Today, it has been two years since I set this fiasco into motion. It has been, at best, a minor fiasco, but it is my own.
Happy Blogoversary* to me!
*Ha ha ha, you bastards, I made you pronounce the word “blogoversary” in your heads.
UPDATE: Aw, thanks, Shakes.

SRSLY.

That I dig the crap out of Tilda Swinton.
…Also, I think it’s possible that Jon Stewart is a genuinely good guy.

Robert Farley has made the case that the Air Force shouldn’t be its own branch of the military.  It should be folded back into the Army and Navy, with, according to my basic understanding of his argument, the Army taking over its tactical roles and the Navy taking over its strategic roles (especially w/r/t nukes).
The […]

So Obama gets asked at a press conference about some negative ad that Clinton aired about him, and says this: 
“I understand that Senator Clinton, periodically when she’s feeling down, launches attacks as a way of trying to boost her appeal,”
‘Cause gals are so emotional, y’know?  They get to feeling down from time to time.  Some might […]

Ezra and Shakes posted this xkcd cartoon already, and I’m going to post it too:
How it works

The title is a description, not a command. Tor is giving away free .pdfs of some of their titles, at the rate of one a week, and they’ll email them right to your own personal inbox, if only you ask. Not only that, there’s a contest involved. I’m signed up, of course, […]

Sorry I haven’t posted much lately. I blame the ennui. Other people have posted some stuff, though.
Matt Selman: The United States of America vs. Wesley Snipes:
DEFENSE ATTORNEY: The defense would like to call to the stand… Blade.
PROSECUTOR: Objection. Blade is not a real person, but rather Mr. Snipes in sunglasses and fake vampire […]

Anil Dash, to whom I linked downblog, ruminates upon history:
A side note: The most amazing thing about the Ice Cube-as-sitcom-dad evolution we’ve discussed above is not that the Crazy Motherfucker Named Ice Cube is now Disney-ready, but rather that Snoop can get away with wearing these pimped-out 80s-style clothes! Indeed, Eazy E had called our […]

Because, in a nutshell, I GOT YER GENDER CARD RIGHT HERE, ASSHOLES. AND IT SAYS “REGISTERED DEMOCRAT.”
-Kate Harding, at Shakesville
For the record, if any of y’all were hiding your support for Clinton under a bushel, don’t think that just because I favor Obama, you can’t talk her up if you want. It’s not like […]

When I were a lad, in our senior year we got to write up little profiles for ourselves along with our photos for the high school yearbook. These commonly included a favorite quote, and the one I used was “When in difficult country, do not encamp.”
Ha! Good one, brain! Did you know […]

So I guess it’s Mardi Gras today, as well. Um, show me your tits?
Alternatively, tell me stories of voting today, if you live in one of the primary states (and I know I have peeps in Massachusetts, New York, and Illinois who might be reading this).
If you didn’t vote, and don’t want to go […]

Patrick Nielsen Hayden’s voting for Obama in New York:
I know perfectly well that Obama, for all his idealism, is well inside the “centrist” consensus on how America ought to conduct itself in the world. He was against the Iraq war from the start, and that means a lot to me, but he’s also not someone […]

Somewhere on the web, I do not remember where, I read a recommendation of Inglorious, by Joanna Kavenna, as a good book worth reading, especially if the reader has the experience to appreciate everything Kavenna gets exactly right about having a depressive episode. I’m not very far into it yet, but I’m enjoying it […]

Via The Editors, I think I’ve actually overloaded on cute.