Fantastic find from TPM, Clinton’s Laws of Politics, via [Matt]

NEWSPAPER BLACKOUT POEMS : Austin Kleon

What’s cooking, good looking?

The treacherous path which lies ahead. Moving down to New York with the lady come August, and if we don’t get campus housing, things look to be pretty grim.

Really, though, I’m not afraid! This will be fun! Right?

Pulled this from a blog but can’t (after twenty minutes of Google-fu) for the life of me remember where. They original poster observed that we don’t think of day laborers as people or even workers but simply in terms of the particular service they are able to fulfill.

I am doing a whole lot of meddling with the site this week in an effort to make it more tumblr-like and and an easier place to collect thought and interesting things I come across. I’ve realized - and I don’t feel too badly about this - that I don’t care to publish all sorts of written content into the void, plugging it and linking it and trying to impress. At least not right now. I’ve already got that going with flickr, and that’s time suck enough as it is.

So instead I’ll engage in the pleasing-to-me brainteaser of teaching myself code piecemeal, and attempt to lower the threshold needed to post and keep up with the Joneses. I can certainly report on the final fruits of my labors if you’re interested, but for now I just apologize to any RSS subscribers for the violence I must be doing to your reader.

I missed these follow up comments, quoted in the Times this morning:

“Every time that campaign is upset about something, they call it racist,” she said. “I will not be discriminated against because I’m white. If they think they’re going to shut up Geraldine Ferraro with that kind of stuff, they don’t know me.”

Ah yes, reverse discrimination. Life is hard, isn’t it, Congresswoman Ferraro?

Because if she did, she’d have seen my post last month about racist white woman feminist Clinton supporters, and may have reconsidered her phrasing in an interview with L.A.’s Daily Breeze:

If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position,” she continued. “And if he was a woman (of any color) he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept.

Come again? It’s good that upstart black men like Barack can have such wise white women around to reassure them in times of apparent political trouble (such as the day he wins the Miss primary by a twelve point margin): “No really, you’re lucky to be a black man. It’s like your own pity party whenever things get rough, you can just mention how your ancestors were enslaved by my ancestors. And how about your hair! My hair can’t do that…”

I think she takes the coveted #2 spot behind President Bush on my List of People I Want to Punch in the Face