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- Sometimes when politicians lie it's really upsetting and sad. Other times though, it's simply hilarious. What's great is the arrogance of the accompanying statement - we're right, the terrorist sympathizers on the left are misleading you. I love when political hacks try to prove counter-intuitive claims by making stuff up out of thin air. Wasn't with you before, dude, sure not now.
- Anybody recognize the signature on this drawing? I'll give you a hint: if you haven't spent much time at a certain house in South Kingstown, RI, you didn't need to read that last sentence.
- Continuing my theme of annoying commentary on how successfully my law school career is going without me doing anything, the new and infallible US News law school rankings came out. Whereas NYU used to be #5 to Columbia's #4, in an earth-shattering shift NYU and Columbia are now tied at #4. And to think I had thought I got smarter on Tuesday just because I had done the reading.
(On a side note, if any of you buffoons out there want to talk to me about why I chose NYU Law, email me or leave a comment.)
- I saw Thank You For Smoking last weekend, and I'm going to see it again tonight. On the one hand, winning arguments has been an interest of mine for some time (maybe I should say "getting into arguments" ...), but on the other hand, I strongly recommend reading this Roger Ebert review, which should convince all but the biggest moron to go see it. You're not a moron, are you?
- Speaking of being a moron for liking something, I read this American Prospect piece on Al Gore and I almost want him to run for president in 2008. Fortunately, the piece isn't really about politics much at all. Apparently he's an updated version of the Al Gore he was when he was in the Senate; i.e. on the cutting edge of all the issues and generally awesome. There are historical reasons to support him too: the last time a former House and Senate member spent two terms as Vice President before losing a disputed presidential election and then successfully ran for president eight years later was Richard Nixon, and literally everything about that administration was good.
- This is too funny not to watch: a short film (~6 minutes) of every cliche from 80s movie endings. It's called, bear with me here, "80's Ending." Thanks to Galvin for sending me the original link years ago, and for putting in the hours necessary to track it back down.
- Finally, if you're one of those people complaining about the Democrats not having any policies of their own, they just put out "Real Security: The Democratic Plan to Protect America and Restore Our Leadership in the World," which seems halfway decent, with one flaw: no bullet points. People, seriously, come on: we want 3-5 bullet points of the main parts of the plan. We can read the rest, you know, later.
