I like to live in America!

Courtesy of the wonderful Cagle Post, an editorial cartoon from Thailand that I'd love to have as a poster. Have you voted yet, friends?

Money talks and sings

I'm ashamed to say that I had to be sent this clip from The Stranger, our local weekly, by someone 3500 miles away. I'm a wretch. Please accept the clipping itself as my apology, with great thanks to whoever AFT keeved it from in the first place:

Obama and the road ahead

Attention young Obama staffers and volunteers: Be advised that not only are you in the presence of a world-changing leader, you're also apparently working for the best boss some of you will ever have. I love this speech because not only is he extremely honest about how much hard work is ahead, he makes you love it. Which is how you know Barack Obama has never worked in a publishing office...

THWAP! (Ahhhhh.)

Short, vicious, and deeply gratifying: A beautiful exchange courtesy of Sadly, No. (HT to TF, of course.)

Is Barack Obama a Muslim?

Link to it, read it, forward it, love it.

Much twittering ado about (mostly) nothing

So today (Wednesday) is the Twit-Out, in which heavy Twitter users cranky that the free service is in a perpetual state of discombobulation are going to stamp their tiny feet and not Twit for a day in an act of "tough love."

Yeah, I see you're frightened and dismayed by this threat to your... um, yeah. I predict that the world will continue to spin on its axis; that the absence of some of the I-just-made-a-poopy crowd will go unnoticed by those of us with full info-lives; and that both the vast mass of occasional users and those treating Twitter as a practical broadcast tool will appreciate the lighter server loads. (Mediaphyter's got some smart thinking on this.) The organizers seem convinced that their fussing is a means of getting the attention of their admittedly poorly-performing Web 2.0 hangout (Twitter 2008, Evite 2003? discuss); for the sake of increased performance, I wonder if we could convince them to have a sulk like this once a week?

This concludes the whiny-ass bitchery portion of our program today. In recompense for the brain cells you sacrificed on that paragraph, please enjoy this video of Barack Obama explaining in the nicest possible way how the Tennessee GOP will either step the fuck off re his family or take delivery on the deluxe order of whup-ass with a side of Midol. One of the beautiful fringe benefits of having this man lead the nation will be watching him in action at summit meetings, I reckon.