“As you know, this year they expanded the Best Picture category to include 10 films. In fact, even the death montage was expanded to include President Obama’s healthcare program.” - Jay Leno (via Newsmax.com)
So who were the winners in the Department of Education’s Race to the Top? The Foundry at the Heritage Foundation says that nearly one-third of all state applicants made it to the next round, hardly an elite group. (Boy, does that make WIsconsin look even worse.) What’s interesting, as Andy Smarick of [...]
One famous Buddhist comments on another:
The Dalai Lama said Saturday that he had – somehow – never heard of Tiger Woods.
When Woods’ sex scandal was explained to him, Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader emphasized the importance of self-discipline.
All religions have the same idea “when it comes to adultery,” he said.
“Whether you call it Buddhism or another [...]
Ht: Fred Dooley
Cory Liebmann, formerly of the self-described “partisan” organization One Wisconsin Now, has sent an unbelievably large open records request to State Representative Leah Vukmir’s office. Among the targets of this fishing expedition is, well, me.
1. All email from 7/1/08 through 1/20/10 for Rep. Vukmir, Dean Cady and Matthew Adamczyk (only in his capacity [...]
I found this exchange between Eliezer Yudkowsky and Razib Khan on Bloggingheads.tv pretty interesting:
Almost as interesting as Susan Orlean and Kurt Andersen on writing memoirs:
Not a complete picture, but at least a couple of glimpses into The Obama.
Waukesha Freeman columnist Jessica McBride endorsed Darryl Enriquez for Waukesha mayor today.
Darryl says he would differ from Nelson in several ways. He’d be more of a “taxpayer advocate,” he says (there’s that phrase again). That makes me happy because I own a house in Waukesha, and Nelson hasn’t managed to hold down my taxes. He [...]
(ht: Charlie Sykes)
The Republican National Committee is off to Hawaii, and local blogger Zach Wisniewski is jealous.
In yet another example of how out of touch Republican National Committe chairman Michael Steele is with average Americans, the RNC will be holding a meeting for RNC staff at a beachfront resort in Hawaii next week.
Last I checked, Hawaii was [...]
Our friend Mike Mathias leaps to the defense of the under-medicated Chris Liebenthal. Well, Mike doesn’t exactly “leap.” More like hops. But anyway, he comes to the defense of Liebenthal, and he even brings charts proving that I am a heartless bastard and that insurance companies eat babies for breakfast.
However, as the chart above demonstrates, [...]
