Oct
24
11:34pm
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Human Resources Poetry

Since I’m now an employee of Harvard University, I get to enjoy all the trappings of a major bureaucracy. Like the Harvard 2008 Staff Survey, which was distributed this week along the with the free gift at left. Yes, those are magnetic-poetry tiles filled with the jargon of human resources.

It is the rare set of words that can not be arranged into something vaguely akin to literature. But I’ve given it a lot of thought this week, and I think these tiles are immune to eloquence. They may very well be the 54 dreariest words in the English language. This is all I could muster:

life is a balance, I think
work, values, relationships
our best is enough

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Oct
17
7:57pm
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“A lot of people think the world will end in 2012. I don’t believe that. I just think there’s gonna be like an asymptote.”
- Guy behind the register at Berryline

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Oct
17
7:10pm
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The Al Jazeera English channel on YouTube has more subscribers than any other news organization — more than the Times, the AP, the BBC, all of them. This video demonstrates why.


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Oct
16
11:52pm
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Meet the Wojahn Brothers

Cam’ron’s latest track, which Nah Right posted tonight, is a remix of the Mercenaries 2: World in Flames theme song, which was made by, uh, these guys:

But, no matter, the Cam’ron single is great! It would have the been the song of the summer if his record weren’t so badly delayed.

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Oct
16
9:37pm
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Sex-offender registration has always bothered me — I gave a speech opposing Megan’s Law in eighth grade! — but wow: The Scarlet Letter for Maryland sex offenders this Halloween will be a bright orange pumpkin. That is the symbol on a sign they are required to post on their doors with a warning, in capital letters, to trick-or-treaters: “No candy at this residence.” The paper signs began arriving last week in the mailboxes of the roughly 1,200 violent and child-sex offenders across the state with a letter explaining how they are to comport themselves on Oct. 31. […] In addition to posting the sign, the offenders must stay at home, turn off outside lights and not answer the door, according to the letter obtained by The Washington Times. I desperately want one of these signs. Will pay top dollar. (via Tapped via Simon)

Sex-offender registration has always bothered me — I gave a speech opposing Megan’s Law in eighth grade! — but wow:

The Scarlet Letter for Maryland sex offenders this Halloween will be a bright orange pumpkin.

That is the symbol on a sign they are required to post on their doors with a warning, in capital letters, to trick-or-treaters: “No candy at this residence.”

The paper signs began arriving last week in the mailboxes of the roughly 1,200 violent and child-sex offenders across the state with a letter explaining how they are to comport themselves on Oct. 31. […]

In addition to posting the sign, the offenders must stay at home, turn off outside lights and not answer the door, according to the letter obtained by The Washington Times.

I desperately want one of these signs. Will pay top dollar. (via Tapped via Simon)
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Oct
15
11:27pm
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Here’s a Joe we can all believe in.


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Oct
15
5:29pm
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Everything Seemingly Is Spinning out of Control

In retrospect, this absurd AP piece was eerily prescient.


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Oct
14
10:42pm
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via Questlove via Simon


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Oct
13
1:32pm
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Campaign Season

This new ad by Democratic senatorial candidate Jim Slatterly of Kansas…

 

…clearly owes a debt to the opening scene of “Killa Season,” the 2006 Cam’ron biopic:

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Oct
13
9:17am
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Music from the car ride to New Hampshire


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