Been sleeping poorly all week. Jaw totally tense, despite genuinely good news at work and genuinely gorgeous weather, if a little prematurely autumnal. Long-anticipated visit by friends this weekend, I’m doing my morning pages, and I’ve started working out again (man, the threshold pains are a bear). But despite all these good [...]
Barack Obama - U.S. Senator for Illinois: Podcast
Barack Obama is a hell of a speaker. I loved this piece of his opening remarks while addressing the summer interns at the Partnership for Public Service. All transcription errors are mine.
… the possibility for us to engage in the process not of perfecting the
world, but [...]
This year’s favorite music video, so far: Chicago’s very own “OK Go” performing “Here It Goes Again,” on treadmills.
Judge: Wiretap program unconstitutional
Wow. A serious (and welcome, and long overdue) smackdown, here.
DETROIT — A federal judge ruled Thursday that the government’s warrantless wiretapping program is unconstitutional and ordered an immediate halt to it.
U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor in Detroit became the first judge to strike down the National Security Agency’s program, which [...]
Kung Fu Monkey: Lunch Discussions #145: The Crazification Factor
John: … I mean, what will it take? That last speech literally made no sense. It was crazy drunken bar talk! Islamic radicals are like COMMUNISM?! (gets speech on laptop) If we don’t fight terrorists in Iraq they’ll build a fundamentalist terrorist state stretching from Spain to [...]