‘Really? … Ralph Nader? … What was that?’
Unbelievable. Nader calls Obama an Uncle Tom on the night he’s elected. Shepherd Smith calls him out on Fox News, no less:
And with it, Nader seals his fate as a once-noble man whose nonsense has reduced his reputation to mud. Kinda like someone else we know.
How Kansas voted
County by county on the New York Times map, Kansas was almost entirely red, with three exceptions in the eastern part of the state.
I grew up in Johnson County (above). Knowing the people I grew up with and among, there’s no surprise it went McCain. I wish my good friends who still live there could have helped flip it blue, but that’ll happen when moose fly.
The three counties that went for Obama and why:
Douglas: Home to the University of Kansas. Liberal college students.
Wyandotte: Kansas City, Kansas, lies in this county. Black people.
Crawford: Pittsburg, Kansas, is here. I have no idea why this county swung blue. My only guess is that there’s a teachers college here and that folks in education tend to vote Dem.
C: JoCo went red
C: The times has got a great map where you can see county by county
C: only two kansas counties went blue
AK: Douglas
AK: and WyCo
C: Wyandotte
AK: i’m guessing
C: yep
C: how did you know?
AK: Douglas = Lawrence; WyCo = Black people
C: even JoCo went 54 to 47.4, though
C so almost half of JoCo went for Obama
C: 84.7 to 13.2 for Obama in SF. unsurprisingly!
C: 55.6 to 43.5 for McCain in Lancaster PA
C: But actually I think those numbers show the lack of support for McCain
C: because they should have won those counties
C: with the lopsided-ness of SF
AK: Crawford County in KS also went for Obama
Alien Lanes in Terminator Sarah Connor Chronicles
Tonight on Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles, someone stole the Connors’ credit cards and made a charge at a bowling alley called Alien Lanes. The bad terminator calls up the credit card info on his computer:
Alien Lanes is, of course, one of Guided by Voices’ best albums:
I never thought to research the title of this GBV album before, but a quick Google search seems to reveal that there’s no L.A. bowling alley by that name.
The site PopMatters, however, has a possible explanation for the title. From an interview with Eric Johnson of the Fruit Bats:
I’ve heard that Bob Pollock of Guided By Voices gets a lot of his song titles by misreading signs while he’s driving around. Like Bee Thousand, came from driving by this movie theater where they were playing this Charles Grodin dog movie Beethoven, and [he] misread Beethoven as Bee Thousand. And I think Alien Lanes came from a bowling alley called Allen Lanes.
And there you have it. From Allen Lanes to Alien Lanes to a sly reference in The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
Great Obama ad
[via Sullivan]
DAILY-ISH LINKS
Links for Friday, November 14, 2008
- Jessi Klein Hates Foodies
"Let me be clear: I really love eating and I love food. I think anyone who knows how to cook anything is a genius, and I always appreciate the time and love that goes into a home-made meal. And I love going to restaurants. I love menus and forks and appetizers and the anticipation of desserts. But I hate that foodies feel like every meal has to have the same wow-factor as their birthday blowjob. I once tried to make dining plans with a foodie friend and it took over ninety minutes to agree on a place that met all of her qualifications for ambiance, cuisine, and service. You would have thought we were negotiating Israeli borders."
(tags: none) - God Bless America Pizza Box
A candidate for the "Pizza Box Museum" I'd like to start on Slice. From Kathryn Yu's Flickr photostream.
(tags: none) - Alcapurria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alcapurria is a dish from Puerto Rico made from a mixture of ground plantains and yautía or green banana and yautía or yuca, filled with ground beef or crab meat and deep fried in oil. Many Puerto Ricans enjoy this dish and are often found eating it at the beach with friends. "Alcapurrias" are also one of the many dishes served on the kiosko stands.
(tags: none)
Links from Monday, November 10, 2008 to Thursday, November 13, 2008
- Flickredit
Allows you to download and keep backups of your Flickr photos. Good to have. You never know what will happen to online services in this day and age. Especially with Yahoo circling the drain. It's Java-based, so should work with Mac/PC both.
(tags: Flickr Flickr:Hacks photos technology ) - Macabre but Fascinating: Death Masks of Lincoln, Ben Franklin, Isaac Newton
Steve Heller has them on his site, The Daily Heller
(tags: death deathmasks AbeLincoln BenjaminFranklin IsaacNewton TheDailyHeller ) - Stephen Lewis: Ode to President Obama on The Murfreesboro Post
Wow. This is what they're like in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. The editor's note at the top of this column is too little, too late. This column didn't just appear in the paper. It had to go through at least one or two layers. And nobody objected?
(tags: politics newspapers shoddyjournalism journalism Tennessee racism Election2008 BarackObama )
Links from Wednesday, November 5, 2008 to Thursday, November 6, 2008
- Newspaper Framing at thePaperFramer.Com
Costs about $53 for a 12-by-22-inch frame — large enough to fit a broadsheet newspaper, like, say, the November 5, 2008, cover of the New York Times.
(tags: newspapers framing ) - Quartz Composer: Tiger’s Sleeper Hit App?
Dan Dickinson's hint on how to build your own screensavers for Mac OS X. Old news, but it took me a while to find this again so I'm bookmarking it here on Delicious.
(tags: MacOSX computers OSX screensavers DIY DanDickinson ) - Highlights (or, Possibly, ‘Lowlights’) from Newsweek’s Special Election Project
"The Obama campaign was provided with reports from the Secret Service showing a sharp and disturbing increase in threats to Obama in September and early October, at the same time that many crowds at Palin rallies became more frenzied. Michelle Obama was shaken by the vituperative crowds and the hot rhetoric from the GOP candidates. 'Why would they try to make people hate us?' Michelle asked a top campaign aide."
(tags: politics Election2008 Newsweek MichelleObama BarackObama magazines )
Links from Sunday, November 2, 2008 to Tuesday, November 4, 2008
- Fabrication Four à Pizzas/poteries - a set on Flickr
Some dude building a pizza oven.
(tags: pizza Pizza:Ovens Flickr photos BTSlice ) - LA Pizza
Neat! An L.A. pizza blog.
(tags: LosAngeles California pizza pizzablogs blogs BTSlice ) - SNL Appearance Is Proof McCain Has Reached the “Acceptance” Stage
James Fallows: "For a candidate who thinks he's ahead, and might actually become president, inevitably there's a tone of new seriousness right at the end: What we've been working for years is within our grasp, let's not screw this up, and let's be sobered by how different the world is going to look in a few days. ¶ So if McCain really thought he had a chance of catching up, he wouldn't have wasted time on an audience that might repair his reputation among liberals and journalists but does him no good with the crucial swing votes. And if he thought he were secretly ahead, he wouldn't comport himself this way. He would be more like the stiff character we saw in the debates."
(tags: JohnMcCain politics Election2008 SNL TV ) - Dr. Elliot Kessler, D.D.S.
Need to make dental appointment.
(tags: dentists health )
Links from Tuesday, October 28, 2008 to Friday, October 31, 2008
- Studs Terkel Dies
Sad. From the Chicago Tribune's obit: "The author-radio host-actor-activist and Chicago symbol has died. 'My epitaph? My epitaph will be "Curiosity did not kill this cat,"' he once said." If you've never read "Working," go buy it.
(tags: StudsTerkel obituaries Chicago ChicagoTribune ) - YouTube - McCainiac Provokes Muslims at Obama Rally With Sign
A lone McCain supporter holding a sign connecting Obama to Muslims hangs out outside an Obama rally. Obama supporters, including Muslims, confront him. I thought the Obama supporters were going to turn ugly in this video, but they handled it pretty well. A stark contrast to the bumpkins at McCain-Palin rallies.
(tags: politics Election2008 videos YouTube ) - McCain’s Wackadoodles in Pennsylvania: ‘Bomb Obama,’ “Never Vote for a Black’
This is easily the ugliest of the videos I've linked to or embedded here. I'm not even going to embed it because it's essentially more of the same, just way uglier. Shocking, actually. With one wackadoodle talking assassination. ¶ I think these "real Americans" must be watching the YouTube clips of others like them, because they all seem to be following a script, from "Barack Hussein Obama" to "baby killer(s)." ¶ The only thing redeeming about this video is that it mercifully segues into footage of opposing Obama supporters with an inspiring song as soundtrack. ¶ If Obama wins, these people are going to riot. [via Sullivan]
(tags: TheRealAmerica ugliness rightwingwackos Pennsylvania politics Election2008 videos )
Links from Thursday, October 23, 2008 to Tuesday, October 28, 2008
- What Sarah Palin Is Saying
Anil Dash comes out strong with one of the best analyses of Sarah Palin's use of language yet: "Put simply, if Palin says "Barack Obama consorts with terrorists", she is making the assertion that he supports acts of violence against American citizens and the media will refute this obviously false assertion. If, instead, Palin says he "pals around with terrorists", she's used code-switching to mask the seriousness of the charge, obfuscating her meaning enough to get away with making an assertion that inevitably calls for the imprisonment or even assassination of a political opponent."
(tags: AllHailPalin Election2008 politics AnilDash language grammar dialects ) - How Poster Boy Turns Subway Ads Into Political Art
"The defacing of posters doesn't sound particularly lofty, but Poster Boy—who, for obvious reasons, wishes to remain anonymous (vandalism is, after all, a crime)—has intentions that are surprisingly high-minded. The die-hard Fight Club fan hopes to start a decentralized art movement, one where anyone can claim to be Poster Boy. 'No copyright, no authorship,' he says. 'A social thing, as opposed to being an artist making things for bored rich people to hang above their couch.' That such a crusade might encourage vandalism doesn't bother him. 'Where I'm from, if you go by the book, it's a very slow process to get what you want,' he says."
(tags: PosterBoy posters graffiti art NYC NYmag subway streetart ) - Rudy Ray Moore, 81, ‘Dolemite’ Star, Precursor of Rap, Dies
From the Chicago Tribune: "Rudy Ray Moore, whose standup comedy, records and movies related earthy rhyming tales of a vivid gaggle of characters as they lurched from sexual escapade to sexual escapade in a boisterous tradition, born in Africa, that helped shape today's hip-hop, died Sunday in Akron, Ohio. He was 81."
(tags: RudyRayMoore obits rap music comedians )
Links from Monday, October 20, 2008 to Thursday, October 23, 2008
- Food Writer Mike Gebert Has a Good Point
He says: "What the internet has brought to it is the ebb and flow of constant discussion. That doesn't mean the review by the pro reviewer is necessarily dead, but it does mean the world is no longer breathlessly waiting to be told what to think. The world already posted what it thinks, and why shouldn't it when it's paying full price? The reviewer is just one more voice, albeit, hopefully one of the better ones."
(tags: MikeGebert Chicago blogging blogs foodblogs foodwriters Illinois comments MenuPages )
