i have a few things to say about Obama’s commencement address at ASU this week.
First, i think the address itself was really good. I like how he keep’s it real. Even though he now officially part of “The System” he can still talk about short-term election-winning activities and doing what’s good for the country. That [...]
I heard a great podcast yesterday on NPR about the iconic Obama poster (seen above). The poster is done by a fascinating artist named Shepherd Fairey. It’s a little known fact that Fairey is also responsible for the Andre The Giant “OBEY” sketches that i remember from the 90’s. He really gets around.
In this case, [...]
Check out this image of Obama’s inaugural speech. It’s a 1400 Megapixel photo. This allows you to do some ridiculous zooming in. You can even check out Bush’s sour face. Pretty cool. Here’s the article where the photographer explains how it was done. Click on the photo below to see the sweet details
i just realized this:
Obama’s chief of staff is a guy named Rahm Emanuel. Two interesting facts about him i learned from his Wikipedia entry:
He was the inspiration for the character Josh Lyman on Aaron Sorkin’s The West Wing. My sister would know better but i believe he was pretty cool
Rahm’s brother, Ari Emanuel, is [...]
Last night we elected Barack Hussein Obama to be president of United States. I’m incredible excited about this – much more so than i thought i would be. I find that i’m constantly wedged between people who are overly optimisitic about the political situation in American and people who are consistenly negative and pessemistic. Listening [...]
I’m at work and trying to figure out who’s winning the election and what i notice is that every site is different. Some have called over 15 states already whereas others have only called 2. How can this happen? It can happen b/c lots of sites are just making the news up.
The NYTimes however has [...]
I thought this was a good article by David Sedaris in The New Yorker:
I don’t know that it was always this way, but, for as long as I can remember, just as we move into the final weeks of the Presidential campaign the focus shifts to the undecided voters. “Who are they?” the news anchors [...]
who thinks that if McCain is elected that he’ll pass away and Palin will become President? I know everyone knows that it’s a possibility but i’m SURE it will happen. It’s almost destiny. Here’s someone who was in city council until 1996 and then mayor from 1996 – 2002 of Wasilla, a town of 5500 [...]
During my trip to Maui, i brought along the book “The Post-American World” by Fareed Zakaria. It’s a good read (not done yet). One part i really liked at the begging was when he was talking about how war and organized violence have declined substantially over the past 60 years – and dramatically [...]
Got this from here and it gave me a chuckle.
Donald Rumsfeld is giving the president his daily briefing. He concludes by saying: “Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed.”
“OH NO!” the President exclaims. “That’s terrible!”
His staff sits stunned at this display of emotion, nervously watching as the President sits, head in hands.
Finally, the President looks up [...]
