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Jul. 9th, 2009 @ 01:33 pm About Politics in the Age of Obama
PA Congressman Patrick Murphy was on Rachel Maddow the other night, discussing a bill he is lead sponsor on to overturn Don't Ask Don't Tell.
I've been trying to understand why Obama hasn't done any of the options he has to lessen or delay DADT investigations. I understood he's waiting for Congress to pass a law, but why doesn't he use any of his powers on it.
After listing to Representative Murphy, I now understand. At about 5:44 in the video, Rachel asks the question which leads to the answer.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22425001/vp/31808452#31808452
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Jul. 6th, 2009 @ 05:47 pm About an Interesting Observation about Obama
I find Andrew Sullivan an interesting fellow on the political landscape.
He's Catholic, Conservertive, and gay...I always find folks with that combination interesting...He's a frequent guest on Bill Maher's Real Time, and often offers the best analysis of political events.

His blog is @ http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish , a place I don't follow as much as I likely should, as when I do there, I tend to read thru most bits on there.

Anyways, his Sunday article in the times is linked below, where he discusses Obama and his strategies. It's worth a read, if nothing else.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6634095.ece
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Jul. 1st, 2009 @ 12:01 am About Strange Castings
Some friends and I were doing some fan casting for future Marvel movies, and we were thinking of Doctor Strange, The Master of The Mystic Arts..

Feeling you need to go older than you typically do with hero casting, someone who can do arrogant but charming and then humbled and enigmatic.

Thoughts like Pierce Brosnan, Paul McGann came up..then I mentioned Hugh Laurie.

I like that casting, especially if you then get Stephen Fry as Wong, his assistant.

how awesome would that be? Jeeves and Wooster. . .WITH MAGIC!
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Jun. 19th, 2009 @ 11:46 am About Off Limit Children
Just a reminder as people continue to talk and talk and talk about Letterman and Caribou Barbie.

When Obama said children were off limits, he was speaking about Bristol Palin specifically and all public figure's children (like his own) generally.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/01/obama.palin/
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Jun. 18th, 2009 @ 04:54 pm About a possible new .sig
While arguing politics at the Comic Book Resources forum, I cranked this out:

And if that doesn't work, wel,l remember that politicians are a cowardly and superstitious lot, so you might need to hit them with a bat.

I might need to use that again :)
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Jun. 10th, 2009 @ 01:07 am About Futurama
26 new episodes of Futurama have been ordered.

http://tv.ign.com/articles/993/993144p1.html

Fox has announced they've canceled it already.
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May. 26th, 2009 @ 08:46 pm About Green Lantern
Making the rounds:

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May. 19th, 2009 @ 10:19 am About Jesse For Regular Talking Head Guest Shots


Let's get this man in office front of some microphones!
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May. 7th, 2009 @ 06:05 pm About Not Cutting the Mustard
Seriously?

The Republican talking heads are complaining that Obama just ordered mustard on his hamburger the other day?

In a time of financial crisis, unending strife, people losing their jobs and homes, THIS is what they talk about?
Why aren't these people lined up against a wall with blindfolds on?

Surely there's a Republican reading this who'll step in and defend their spokespeople. I triple dog dare you...and I'll even use ketchup.
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Apr. 30th, 2009 @ 12:58 pm About Thick As A Brick
Current Music: Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick
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Ever suddenly get the desire to listen to the full 43 minutes of Jethro Tull's Thick As A Brick?

Thank beagles for MP3's for this kind of emergency.
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Apr. 28th, 2009 @ 10:12 am About Songs I Like: Dan Hartman - I Can Dream About You
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Dan Hartman - I Can Dream About You

My favorite song from the movie, Streets of Fire, despite the soundtrack having a number of Jim Steinman penned tunes (or re-penned, as fans of Steinman's are familiar with).

( The Lyrics )

The MIDI:


Until just the other day, I generally thought that Dan Hartman was actually a thin black man*:

The Video:


but in fact, he was a stout white guy:



(and look, it's Just One of the Guys and The Flash star, Joyce Hyser! Alas, this dancing in a video gig didn't do as well as Courtney Cox's


*It's likely I knew this back in the day and had just forgotten over the years.
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Apr. 25th, 2009 @ 06:20 pm About Bea Arthur
Bea Arthur has died .

During the memories of Maude and The Golden Girls and countless other roles, let's hoist one more round for perhaps her greatest and most out of this world role:



Goodnight, but not goodbye.
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Apr. 14th, 2009 @ 07:49 pm About Conservative Bags
So Rachel Maddow has been going on all week about the Conservatives being douche bags and throwing parties about it.

I mean I guess there's something to be said for them admitting and celebrating what they are..coming out of the douchey closet as it were...but this isn't really news, and it seems a bit....crass...for Rachel...who's making a name as the nice one in political chat.

EDIT[info]dvandom informs me that it's "TEA" Bag...not "D" Bag.

Ah...that makes a lot more sense.

Except..really...is this news?

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Apr. 14th, 2009 @ 07:30 pm About Local Talk Radio
My local Progressive Talk station has a drive time show, The Mario Solis-Marich Show. Mario Solis-Marich is a Latino political activist. He's done lots of campaign work and seems to be well knowledgeable and connected in Democratic circles (he's pulled interviews with the Clintons for example, which seems pretty big for a local guy).

Today he was talking about Hate Crime legislation. There's a case here about a guy who killed a transgendered woman, and I don't know where the case is, but thats what brought the topic up. His question for the audience was: Does hate crime legislation impede on free speech?

( Rant continues after cut )
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Apr. 14th, 2009 @ 01:53 am About Primeval Plot Points
Star of the British show Primeval Douglass Henshall made a comment I wanted to comment on.

( HUGE SERIES 3 SPOILERS BEHIND CUT )
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Apr. 13th, 2009 @ 06:00 pm About Amazonfail failure
So, the "banning" of glbt books at Amazon is getting attributed to one of a few possible sources:

1) A French Amazon editor, messing up a global categorization
2) Conficker
3) a known web hacker who has claimed credit (with details).


One commenter summed it up best:
"Ah man, I was enjoying the "blame canada"-esque simplicity of Amazon being bigots."





http://valleywag.gawker.com/5210653/amazoncom-admits-embarrassing-error-over-57310-gay-books
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Apr. 8th, 2009 @ 11:28 pm About Passover
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Apr. 2nd, 2009 @ 01:49 pm About Tempting Tauntauns
Ok everyone saw the Think Geek Tauntaun Sleeping Bag yesterday.
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What they might not have seen was this addition:

ATTN Tauntaun Fanatics! Due to an overwhelming tsunami of requests from YOU THE PEOPLE, we have decided to TRY and bring this to life. We have no clue if the suits at Lucasfilms will grant little ThinkGeek a license, nor do we know how much it would ultimately retail for. But if you are interested in ever owning one of these, click the link below and we'll try!

So if you're interested in it, head over and sign on the line
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Apr. 1st, 2009 @ 05:16 pm About April Fools Day
I've really come to despise April Fool's Day on the Internet.

Everyone rushes to do fake news or what have you, but rather than go for the clever or funny or weird, people just do whatever.

A story just not being true isn't enough

Here's a hint, if on a normal day, the story wouldn't be questioned, don't bother.
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Apr. 1st, 2009 @ 12:54 am About Dunkin' Donuts New Ad


So remember kids, don't lay around watching tv...instead, stuff your face with donuts!!!
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