This is all I’m going to say about Bo Obama, the first family’s new non-rescue, non-shelter dog:
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(And yes, I have purebred dogs myself, but no, I wouldn’t get another dog from a breeder. Our next family member will be from a shelter or a rescue).

(via BoingBoing)
As someone who spends way too much time “collaborating” by way of exchanging slide decks and arguing the minutiae of bullet points, I was always a big fan of Edward Tufte’s The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint (though I didn’t know a second edition was out).
In honor, then, of inauguration day, here’s Obama’s famous [...]

Some days it’s really difficult to understand the depths of human cruelty and hatred. Today just became one of those days for me, as I read about the recent attack on Mercy For Animals founder Nathan Runkle.
From the press release issued by MFA:
Nathan Runkle, the 24-year old openly gay founder and Executive Director of [...]

One of my favorite songs from what I think of as “first-period” U2 (the era before Unforgettable Fire) has always been “New Year’s Day,” with its juxtaposition of optimism and acquiescence, suggesting:
Nothing changes on New Year’s Day.
On New Year’s Day.
But then at the center of the song declaring with renewed affirmation:
Though torn in two
We can [...]

OK, so the election’s over and all, but I just got a new iPhone and wanted to play with ringtones.
So I took Tana Sokolow’s remix –  which put Obama’s speech over Lee Dorsey’s early seventies performance of Allen Toussaint’s Yes We Can – and created a ringtone.

This’ll get annoying shortly, I’m sure, but for now [...]