McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Pros and Cons of John Kerry’s Top Twenty Vice-Presidential Candidates
Al Gore
Pro: Experienced vice president, has won majority vote for president before
Con: Treehugger, had embarrassing facial hair a while back, daughters prettier than Kerry’s
Jay-Z
Pro: Could mobilize African-American voters (esp. if Beyonce helps campaign), retiring from rapping and looking for new career, representin’ Brooklyn
Con: [...]
I scored a whopping 37.08087% on The Geek Test. I got bonus points for being a girl, being able to name over 5 Food TV hosts (at the moment, I can only think of three of the Iron Chefs though), and for reading Russian literature for fun. I still fail at science fiction. C’est la [...]
The highlights of an otherwise miserable day:
I have a gmail account and am therefore cool.
I am posting from my new Linux computer.
I got a three-hour nap.
For me, getting a good nap is harder than installing Linux, so it definitely belongs on the list of achievements.
The New York Times apologizes for succumbing like every other American media outlet on the heels of war and not questioning the information being provided by the Bush administration.
One of the eight major trends isolated in the State of the News Media 2004 Annual Report Overview was that “[t]hose who would manipulate the press [...]
“There’s a terrible sense of dread filtering across America at the moment and it’s not simply because of the continuing fear of terrorism and the fact that the nation is at war. It’s more frightening than that. It grows out of the suspicion that we all may be passengers in a vehicle that has made [...]