I don’t know about you, but I’m always looking for ways to make stuff work better. (Like, an easy way to close the gap between my car window and the molding so I don’t have to listen to that annoying air whistle.) So I was happy to run across Sugru, this moldable silicone stuff that will be perfect for fixing my phone headset (and, I’m sure, a bunch of other things). Right now, I use Goop to fix most things. [...]
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Nail-bitingly boring Iowa
I watched a few minutes of MSNBC’s coverage of the Iowa caucus Tuesday night and marveled at the network’s agonizingly in-depth coverage. Chris Matthews and Rachel Maddow looked and sounded orgasmic. Would the dashing Rick Santorum edge out that wild man Mitt? Oh, oh! Here’s Matt Taibbi giving the non-event its proper due: …The Iowa caucus, let’s face it, marks the beginning of a long, rigidly-controlled, carefully choreographed process that is really designed to do two things: weed out dangerous [...]
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If he approves it, there will be “huge political consequences” as well: A top oil industry official delivered a clear warning to President Obama Wednesday: approve the Keystone XL pipeline or face “huge political consequences.” American Petroleum Institute President Jack Gerard urged Obama to quickly approve the pipeline, which would carry oil sands crude from Alberta, Canada, to refineries along the Gulf Coast. [...] “I think it would be a huge mistake on the part of the president of the [...]
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Deporting an American teenager to Columbia. Bookmark It
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Orwell as antidote to Obama
Obama enjoys making vague declarations of faith in the system — “The strongest democracies flourish from frequent and lively debate…” — but his style of rhetoric is exactly what George Orwell warned against in “Politics and the English Language.” More here. Bookmark It
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Assuming nothing goes wrong between then and now, I’ll be having same-day surgery on the 17th. Finally. I asked the surgeon to make sure he didn’t maim or kill me, and he said he’d do his best. By the way, he said, the symptoms I’m getting aren’t classic gallbladder attacks, but rather gallstone-induced pancreatitis. All I know is, hurts like a motherfucker. Bookmark It
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Wednesday, Jan 4 | 9 pm eastern | 6 pm pacific |Virtually Speaking Science | MSNBC’s Alan Boyle (Cosmic Log) talks with Marc Abrahams, creator of the Ig Nobel Prizes and editor of the Annals of Improbable Research, about the scientific findings from the past year that made us laugh … and then made us think. VS Science is produced in cooperation with MICA, the Meta Institute for Computational Astrophysics. Follow @b0yle @MarcAbrahams @ImprobResearch Watch the 2011 Ig Nobels Listen live and later on BTR Bookmark It
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And this is what happens because Obama refused to clean house of right-wing Bush appointees: A crusading GOP critic of the Obama Justice Department’s Voting Section, Hans von Spakovsky, has admitted to having Department sources that are leaking apparently confidential and highly personal information that he is using to viciously attack Voting Section staff and to smear the Department at large. Leaking such information—including details from ongoing Inspector General inquiries into a previous media leak and detailing the behavior of [...]
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