This is all I’m going to say about Bo Obama, the first family’s new non-rescue, non-shelter dog: see more dog and puppy pictures (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 “Yes We Can” speech [...]

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 the national animal advocacy [...]

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 it is fun. [...]

While I’ve not doubt that a vegan president-elect Kucinich would be closer to my views on the animals-we-call-food, it’s enheartening truly to see Obama talking about food policy with a true intellectual approach, trying to understand how environmental issues are mixed up with how “food” is produced. First, to backtrack. Via ecorazzi ( Barack Obama Discusses the Dangers of Modern [...]

I don’t normally push online petitions, the theory being that the ease with which a petition is generated, circulated, and signed is inversely proportional to the influence it has on those addressed (online petitions are too easy to do and therefore less meaningful). But this one I think has a chance: If Sen. Barack Obama becomes president, he’ll instantly be [...]