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Sunday, December 20, 2009

The history of 60-to-pass:

A graphic showing the increased use of the filibuster

From this useful piece by James Fallows:
http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/12/the_filibuster_and_family_full.php

posted by jeev | 9:14 AM |

Thursday, August 13, 2009

These are the new solar panels:

A shot of the solar panels from above

Inspection is today, and then I will be good to go!

posted by jeev |
10:03 AM |

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

New solar panels:

The meter is running backwards!

posted by jeev |
8:00 PM |

Friday, June 19, 2009


Translation of voiceover:

Tomorrow is Saturday. Tomorrow is a day of destiny.

Tonight, the cries of Allah-o Akbar are heard louder and louder than the nights before.

Where is this place? Where is this place where every door is closed? Where is this place where people are simply calling God? Where is this place where the sound of Allah-o Akbar gets louder and louder?

I wait every night to see if the sounds will get louder and whether the number increases. It shakes me. I wonder if God is shaken.

Where is this place that where so many innocent people are entrapped? Where is this place where no one comes to our aid? Where is this place that only with our silence we are sending our voices to the world? Where is this place that the young shed blood and then people go and pray -- standing on that same blood and pray. Where is this place where the citizens are called vagrants?

Where is this place? You want me to tell you? This place is Iran. The homeland of you and me.
This place is Iran.
From
Nico Pitney at HuffPost

posted by jeev | 3:42 PM |

Monday, March 16, 2009

For reasons best known to the Brits themselves, the big dog show there is known as Crufts. So the London Times had an
Anti-Crufts contest, and among the winners was

A dog/manatee combo

Echo, clearly a rare dog/manatee mix. As it so happens, Echo is a regular at my little local dog park. And now she's an international dog star! Way to go, Echo!

posted by jeev | 8:40 PM |

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Blossom Dearie, RIP:

posted by jeev |
1:34 PM |

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

"A teacher says, "Take out your pencils. Begin.""

We begin.

posted by jeev |
6:52 PM |

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Somewhere around my birthday in November of 2004, I had what turned out to be the last substantive conversation I would ever have with my father - we argued, about whether I should help him fund the con woman who was busy taking him for all he had. When I refused to send him the $30,000 she was apparently asking for, he was quietly sullen for a bit. Then, after a moment, he asked, with a slight lilt in his voice, "So how'd you like the election?"

The nasty triumphalism of that question, and the irrational anger that fed it, became for me a symbol of everything that had gone somehow haywire, in my country and in my life. My mother's death a month later, and my father's soon after, cemented a sense of despair that was so pervasive, so encompassing that it was no longer even noticeable: it was simply the way life was. And the state of the world around me repeatedly confirmed that conclusion.

I'm writing this because of late I've begun to feel the miasma lifting, if ever so slightly, to find myself believing that while the world is a very complicated and difficult place, despair is perhaps not the only and inevitable response.

No one could be more surprised about this than I am. Yes, Mr. Obama, apparently we can.

posted by jeev |
2:44 PM |

Monday, December 29, 2008

For all you WOW players out there.

Obama wins President Achievement on World of Warcraft


For everybody else, trust me, this is pretty funny.
Courtesy of
Wow Insider.

posted by jeev | 12:55 PM |

Friday, December 12, 2008

Maddow is on fire:
I made car parts in a terrible factory when I was in college. Hot and dirty and mind-numbing and dangerous. And the Republicans think the people who do it their whole lives, well, they're just fat cats who need to re-adjust their expectations. Morons.

posted by jeev |
9:37 PM |
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