... we're all waiting patiently.
March 24, 2012
One year ago today at the Wisconsin protests: Ben Masel's last protest.
The iconic Madison activist "holding up a protest sign, which is supposedly now forbidden at the first floor level. He also reads the free-speech portion of the Wisconsin Constitution, which is right there, as one of the 4 first floor monuments. (You've seen Meade and me protecting the Veterans Monument.) But Ben and his small cadre of civil disobeyers don't manage to get themselves arrested, and we see them file out, past the monumental head of Robert La Follette."
Ben died 6 days later.
Ben died 6 days later.
"Has the Sexual Revolution Been Good for Women?"
Mary Eberstadt says no:
Why do the pages of our tonier magazines brim with mournful titles like "The Case for Settling" and "The End of Men"? Why do websites run by and for women focus so much on men who won't grow up, and ooze such despair about relations between the sexes?
"Freedom, in Shin's mind, was just another word for grilled meat."
The amazing story of Shin Dong-hyuk, who was born in a North Korean forced labor camp, and escaped at the age of 23:
In the garment factory, the superintendent wanted Shin to inform on an important new prisoner. Park Yong Chul, short and stout, with a shock of white hair, had lived abroad....
Much of what Park talked about, especially at the beginning, was difficult for Shin to understand or care about. What delighted him—what he kept begging Park for—were stories about food and eating. These were the stories that kept Shin up at night fantasizing about a better life. Freedom, in Shin's mind, was just another word for grilled meat.
Intoxicated by what he heard, Shin made perhaps the first free decision of his life. He chose not to snitch. And he soon began thinking about escape.
Dick Cheney had a heart transplant.
Cheney is 71, he's had 5 heart attacks, and he waited for a donor for 20+ months.
ADDED: I expect jokes to roll in on Twitter. Yeah, as I wrote that, this popped in:
ADDED: I expect jokes to roll in on Twitter. Yeah, as I wrote that, this popped in:
BREAKING: Cheney Receives Heart Transplant; Bush Still on Waiting List for BrainAnd this:
cheney gets new heart.. still waiting on soul donorAND: The truth is that heart is a real person's heart. Somebody died and made that heart available. And Cheney was on a course to die if that heart's donor had not died and let it go to him. It's really one of the least funny things in the world.
Walter Dellinger — listing 5 Obamacare "myths" — begins with "The 'individual mandate' forces everyone to buy health insurance."
Dellinger, a former acting Solicitor General, has filed a brief on behalf of the Senate and House Democratic leadership in the case that will be argued before the Supreme Court next week.
Let's look carefully at how he purports to debunk this "myth":
Let's look carefully at how he purports to debunk this "myth":
Replicating a famous recording single-handedly.
Do you follow an arc from amazement... to finding this man's deep devotion charming... to turn it off — there's something missing that's so important that it's horrible to hear its absence?
Via Metafilter.
A man murdered by the Toulouse gunman will be able to marry his fiancée.
The paratrooper Abel Chennouf had planned to marry his the pregnant girlfriend, 21-year-old Caroline Monet, and, despite his death, there will be a legally recognized wedding ceremony:
Such ceremonies are unusual but not unheard of in France, where the law allows posthumous marriages in cases where a fiance dies before the wedding. The law states that such weddings can only be approved by the French president "in grave circumstances".Should the law permit someone to marry a dead person?
"I've already had it done twice, for policemen's girlfriends," [lawyer Gilbert] Collard said. "It's a really moving ceremony, with an empty chair representing the dead spouse."
Collard said the official request was being sent out on Saturday but he'd already received approval from the French president's office.
March 23, 2012
One year ago today at the Wisconsin protests: protesters branch out into picketing a bank...
... and then they get suspicious of Meade.
Watch for the lawyer with the Walker-as-Marie-Antoinette sign... to step out of the line and talk to some other guy, who then takes a picture of Meade. And then there are those 2 other guys who are suddenly up in Meade's face, who follow Meade as he leaves to go into the Capitol. Are they going to intimidate Meade?
"The first proposition is that the health care law is constitutional."
"The second is that the court could strike it down anyway.... The law is a completely valid exercise of Congress' Commerce Clause power, and all the conservative longing for the good old days of the pre-New Deal courts won't put us back in those days as if by magic. Nor does it amount to much of an argument. So that brings us to the really interesting question: Will the Court's five conservatives strike it down regardless?"
Dahlia Lithwick asserts and ponders, and James Taranto rankles.
Dahlia Lithwick asserts and ponders, and James Taranto rankles.
"Thousands of spiders were fleeing the rising waters, many of them trailing behind massive amounts of dragline silk."
"The webs tangled over weeds, trees, fences, and fields, creating a surreal and eerie landscape crawling with arachnids. Residents reportedly complained of being unable to walk in certain areas without swarms of little spiders crawling up their legs, seeking higher ground."
Photos.
Photos.
The Most Inappropriate Nausea of the Day.
A writer over at Pajamas Media whose name appears in an unreadable font — Jebuda? Jehuda? — assumes we readers will all want to puke when we see that Shepard Fairey — the artist behind the famous Obama "Hope" poster — is working on a new movie version of George Orwell’s 1984.
That’s right: we may soon see in screens big and small a movie that could very well be advertised as “From the Dishonest Propagandist Who Brought You the Obama ‘Hope’ Poster.”First, I think what would make Orwell "spin in his grave" is your use of the phrase "spin in his grave." Good lord, you purport to care about Orwell, yet you blithely violate one of the most memorable rules in his famous essay "Politics and the English Language": "Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print."
There’s something very fitting about a dishonest propagandist pushing for a whole new 1984 movie, but coming from Obama booster Ron Howard and Shepard Fairey, this project might amount to – if it’s ever produced – a version of 1984 that would make George Orwell spin in his grave.
We missed a protest!
Why was I not alerted? Oh! It was anti-birth control. And they went to the federal court building.
Nearly 500 people from dozens of area churches gathered... beneath a canopy of balloons adorned with the U.S. flag and the word "Life." Many carried signs that said "Stand up for religious freedom."
"He appears to be part of the new generation of Islamic terrorists who act alone..."
"In the silly series 'Manhattan Penis Drawings' (1978), the World Trade Center appears as two phalluses."
You know, those were different times!
But I would love to go back to NYC and see the big Keith Haring show at the Brooklyn Museum. It's there until July 8.
Here's the drawing referenced in the post title.
But I would love to go back to NYC and see the big Keith Haring show at the Brooklyn Museum. It's there until July 8.
Here's the drawing referenced in the post title.
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