Tag Archive for 'obama'
The First Dog
Published April 15th, 2009 in Politics. 0 Comments Tags: breeder, dog, obama, rescue, shelter.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).
Yes We Can (Use PowerPoint)
Published January 20th, 2009 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments Tags: Gettysburg, Lincoln, obama, PowerPoint, Tufte.(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 [...]
Mercy Now
Published January 3rd, 2009 in veg'nism. 0 Comments Tags: Activism, Anti-gay Legislation, Homophobia, Mercy, Mercy For Animals, Nathan Runkle, obama, Politcs, Warren.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 [...]
New Years Day
Published January 1st, 2009 in music and video. 3 Comments Tags: Change, History, Hope, New Years Day, obama, Politics, U2.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 [...]
Yes We Can Ringtone
Published December 28th, 2008 in music. 2 Comments Tags: Allen Toussaint, iPhone, Lee Dorsey, obama, ringtone, Tana Sokolow, Yes 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 [...]
