New York City’s newest mayoral candidate, disgraced former U.S. congressman Anthony Weiner, has few allies in his bid for top office. But as ever, his greatest enemy is himself. New York Times political reporter Michael Barbaro discovered today that Weiner’s campaign website shows a photograph of the Pittsburgh skyline: It was taken looking south from the Roberto Clemente Bridge toward downtown Pittsburgh. (via )
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Today is Hillary Clinton’s last day as Secretary of State.
Here is Clinton in every country she has been in. (HT Ben Smith)
Hillary Clinton spent 2084 hours traveling 957,000 miles during her tenure as the most traveled secretary of state in U.S. history.
Number of countries visited: 112 - Slideshow
Forget the “fiscal cliff”: When it comes to the nation’s most pressing concerns, other matters trump financial calamity.
Several thousand Americans, for example, are calling on President Obama to nationalize the troubled Twinkies industry to prevent the loss of the snack cake’s “sweet creamy center.”
Thousands more have signed petitions calling on the White House to replace the courts with a single Hall of Justice, remove Jerry Jones as owner of the Dallas Cowboys, give federal workers a holiday on Christmas Eve, allow members of the military to put their hands in their pockets and begin construction of a “Star Wars”-style Death Star by 2016.
"— The right to petition the White House prompts grievances, gags online - The Washington Post
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Happy Repeal Day!
Dry no more! On this day in 1933, Utah (who’dve guessed, right?) became the 36th state to ratify the 21st Amendment, overturning the 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act and ensuring that liquor could once more flow (relatively) freely throughout the streets of America.
For more on prohibitions and imbibements of history, be sure and pick up a copy of Lapham’s Quarterly’s winter 2012 issue, INTOXICATION, out December 17th.
(via shorterexcerpts)
Don’t forget to vote tomorrow!
Being in the DC/Virginia media market, I’ll be happy to be several years away from the next set of swing state ads…
Though I do wonder how they’ll find advertisers to fill the yawning gaps between television program segments, once all of the campaigns and PACs and Super-PACs and Super-Secret-PACs are done buying all of the ad time.
Kimmel did man-on-the-street interviews asking for reaction to the debate that hadn’t yet happened. Pretty brilliant responses.
Who Won “Last Night’s” Debate? (by JimmyKimmelLive)
Whose approval rate gained the most as a result of Wednesday’s debate? Probably Big Bird.
Brilliant.
Hugo working on something more enlightening than debate punditry.
And also developing real-world skills.
When Drudge Is A Genius
Is when you’re still up at 2 in the morning, alone in an empty apartment on a mattress, half-empty coke zero bottles scattered around the room, and sneakers inches away from your face that are beginning to smell like Chinese food, and you click on Drudge and you get that photo lay-out he has right now.
Sully
Andrew Sullivan gets at least half credit for this. That sentence is sublime.
Thanks to Hugo’s (lack of) sleep schedule last night, I was able to see this tableau on real-time.
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Um, Actually, What Your Crutch Word Literally Says About You
Joe Biden said literally quite literally a lot last night in his speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte. […]
Crutch words are those expressions we pepper throughout our language as verbal pauses, and sometimes as written ones, to give us time to think, to accentuate our meaning (even when we do so mistakenly), or just because these are the words that have somehow lodged in our brains and come out on our tongues the most, for whatever reason. Here’s our list of frequently used crutches, and what your crutch of choice has to reveal about you:
Basically. You like to cut to the chase, to synopsize, to bring things down to old bottom line of what’s really, truly important. You are always downsizing, cutting the clutter, throwing out a sweater for every new one you purchase.
Um. You are not very good at giving speeches, and listening to you can be painful, but that doesn’t mean you’re not a very nice person.
Honestly. The frequency with which you deploy this word is inversely related to the frequency with which you are actually honest.
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Um, Actually, What Your Crutch Word Literally Says About You
Joe Biden said literally quite literally a lot last night in his speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte. […]
Crutch words are those expressions we pepper throughout our language as verbal pauses, and sometimes as written ones, to give us time to think, to accentuate our meaning (even when we do so mistakenly), or just because these are the words that have somehow lodged in our brains and come out on our tongues the most, for whatever reason. Here’s our list of frequently used crutches, and what your crutch of choice has to reveal about you:
Basically. You like to cut to the chase, to synopsize, to bring things down to old bottom line of what’s really, truly important. You are always downsizing, cutting the clutter, throwing out a sweater for every new one you purchase.
Um. You are not very good at giving speeches, and listening to you can be painful, but that doesn’t mean you’re not a very nice person.
Honestly. The frequency with which you deploy this word is inversely related to the frequency with which you are actually honest.
Read more. [Image: Reuters]
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