The Human Condition

Baby's first pear...
(I just found it worth sharing. It tickled me. What? I'm working on actual content of my own, give me a break. If I don't read every blog in creation instead of actually writing stuff of my own, who will?)




via videosift.com


For thems that's interested...a pic of me back when I liked beer:

Shout into that credibility gap & hear the echo

Photo by Timothy K. Hamilton


Former President of Chicago NOW, Lorna Brett Howard (a very compelling speaker, by the way) on why she switched from supporting Hillary to supporting Obama:

In Iowa, Hillary Clinton was telling people at pro-choice rallies, young women, that Barack Obama was weak on choice when he was a state senator, which is patently false. I was the president of Chicago NOW at the time and I worked closely with him. He had a 100% voting record and 100% with NARAL and Planned Parenthood.

I stayed with Hillary Clinton through that...but a friend forwarded me a piece of direct mail... It attacked Barack Obama on choice and it enraged me.

I'm supporting Barack Obama for president now because not only is he 100% pro-choice, he's 100% honest.
And this line of attack on an issue I care about so deeply is not acceptable to me.

(In the interest of full disclosure, I must admit that the reason I initially watched this clip is that I thought Lorna was Julia Roberts. I'm still not convinced she isn't.)

If You See Something, Say Something

Time - Access to Passport File Gets Easier

The expanded access does not appear to be related to the breaches of the candidates' records. But privacy experts are concerned nonetheless

Hmmm...
The Bush admin relaxed the rules for access to passport files on Jan. 9

Jan. 9 is the same day Obama's files were breached for the "first time."

But, I totally believe the pish-poshing of the idea that these two facts are related and even the suggestion of the possibility of institutional involvement in this piffle makes me laugh. Laugh, i say. Hands on hips, bowl full of jelly-belly shimmying, chin to sky, trumpeting Ha-HAAAA!

You people who see dirty deeds done dirt cheap when you look at perfectly innocent mistakes, gaffes, flubs and bloopers...you people make me shake my head, roll my eyes and guffaw. You silly, silly, vigilant, familiar with history people.

I Just wanted to pass this on...Hey! I Must Be Young!

Finding Political News Online, the Young Pass It On
by Brian Stelter for The New York Times

love this:

A December survey by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press looked broadly at how media were being consumed this campaign. In the most striking finding, half of respondents over the age of 50 and 39 percent of 30- to 49-year-olds reported watching local television news regularly for campaign news, while only 25 percent of people under 30 said they did.

KILL YOUR TELEVISION!
seriously...

MURDER YOUR NIGHTLY NEWS!
(or at least neglect to feed them your attention so they will wither and die, starved of the eyeballs they need to survive)

SMOTHER YOUR PUNDITS
(in bloggers and youtube, cuz bloggers have to provide LINKS and youtube vids don't repeat in an endless loop!)

Change will only happen when enough of us stop consuming the undercooked, overseasoned, and de-contextualized drivel the teevee people would have us believe is news (every damn one of 'em, CNN is no better than FOX, we must understand this) and we start nourishing ourselves with news they have not processed for us.

The blogs and news sites on the internet ain't perfect, but they're significantly less evil than what is available in any other medium.

A Golden Oldie

The Tide Is Turning

From Bob Cesca at The Huffington Post
A nice little video with bits of The Speech