Hitler's had a rough year.

First he found out about the housing bubble:

  Then he had to be told about Michael Jackson's death:

 He couldn't find Wally for the life of him:

 And now he just found out about Ted Kennedy:

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This is Not My Beautiful Economy, Part 4

Could we have a more dramatic picture of our current economic climate than the displays of outrage in two widely covered news clips yesterday? And how is it that our advanced media culture appears to be exacerbating misunderstandings and miscommunications?

Th… Read full post »

2008 was a pretty good year for music. I think I probably heard more quality albums released last year and in 2006, but there were still some very solid and interesting albums put out this year.

Some of them, I am still digesting as I've only recently heard about them after… Read full post »

I interrupt this series barely in progress to bring up a topic I hadn't planned on when I decided to embark on this sexy endeavor.

That topic would be layoffs. Specifically, it would be MY layoff. That's right, in just 60 days or so, I will be joining the growing ranks… Read full post »

11:39 p.m. - McCain now has a 5,000+ vote lead with 64% reporting. Not sure what to think - there are some rural counties that haven't reported and some others that have only partially reported and are showing a 70-30 margin. But there hasn't yet been one vote tallied from Gallatin… Read full post »

I have great affection for office-wide emails. In my seven years at the job I currently hold, I've kept a file of some of my favorites. You can learn a lot from a person by what they choose to disseminate office wide and I've been blessed with an eclectic crew of… Read full post »

It's with a little fear that I write about author David Foster Wallace because what I have to say runs the very real risk of turning a tragic death into a grossly perveted self-exploitation piece. But I can't rightly put this event to rest any other way at the moment.

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So, it seems wrong to me that we all just assume that Obama is right that if you put lipstick on a pig, it's still a pig. No one even second guesses the built-in assumption.

Because of the importance of this issue, I felt the need to test this theory, hoping… Read full post »

Update: I'm fairly confident that it was NOT Craig Finn that I saw in the audience tonight at the DNC. The man I saw was clean shaven and a photo of Finn just yesterday shows him at a radio station in Minneapolis (!!!) with a beard going on.  I'm pretty sure… Read full post »

In the words of the infamous Frank Rizzo, I have a chest like a shithouse.

 Partly genetic and partly the result of my quasi-slovenly ways, my chest is so inglorious that I always hesitate and visibly wince when I take my shirt off. Even if I'm in the bathroom by myself.… Read full post »

Gregorian Award Nominee For Best Album of 2007

Andrew Bird* - Armchair Apocrypha

Andrew Bird's first commercial endeavor was as an "honorary member" of the swing schtick act Squirrel Nut Zippers, back when the genre grabbed a strangely focused, yet mercifully brief, fascination in the late… Read full post »