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NPR did a piece on the movie. You couldn't invent a story that cool, I don't think.

But I just read he only has 6-8% body fat. How does he do that? All I really knew about Ryan was his budget proposal, which was way too damn extreme for me. The more I've learned the more I've come to see him who's pretty damn smart. He will make the campaign more interesting for a while at least. I've already been to the Iowa State Fair, otherwise I'd be off to see him there today. Also, I just checked. Palin was born in '64, which would put her at the older end of my definition of gen X.

Quite a few conservatives who are lukewarm on Romney will now be a bit more excited about the ticket making them more likely to show up in Nov.

Probably not, but the debates would've been the most entertaining television ever!

Interesting choice... Not as "safe" as Pawlenty or Portman. Doesn't seem to have mass appeal, except to the base. I don't see much of an upside except exciting the tea party. I was really, really looking forward to seeing the Christie/Biden debates.

Romney announced VP candidate at 9 AM ET tomorrow... Can't win the election with a good pick, but can certainly lose it with a clunker.

Ricky Gervais tweeted today that he and Karl Pilkington are honored that they were used as the models for the soccer game. That was a good laugh once you look at them.

Via Chicago: An Acceptable Level of Distraction

That's a rather conservative notion.

Steve Earle creeping people out probably isn't front page news.

Kinda breaks up that idea of Mormons as some sort of monolithic secret society...

Ragged Glory is fantastic. Glad that's getting some action. I totally would have skipped this tour because I cannot really make it through Americana. Good setlists though.

Maybe not, but Canada benefitted more from a lack of yellow cards.

Great soccer game on now. U.S. women v Can tied 3-3. Almost done in regulation. Breathless.

Also a demonstration on how little "waste" is actually part of our deficit problem. These are the worst offenders a deficit hawk like Coburn can find And it adds up to about 1/4 billion. Not even a drop in the bucket.

Fucking idiots.

I have friends on the left and right. I ignore many of those who make FB a mainly political forum, especially when they're mostly posting empty rhetoric. I have a few friends on both sides of the aisle I like to engage because we can do so in a constructive manner. One FB friend went from being a pretty liberal guy in HS to a raging tea partier now. I used to argue on the right of him, now I argue (probably hard for many to believe hear) way to the left of me. We keep it mostly civil and it hasn't affected our relationship adversely.

Oops, lazy reading on my part. Didn't get a lot of sleep last night. TWL by a mile. It's in the canon. SBS is good, though

For me, it's almost the opposite. SBS is every bit as much of a statement as YHF. W(TA) seems like it was an attempt to capture all of Wilco's phases in one LP, but not many of the songs are as great as the originals from those phases -- e.g., BBN is a watered down Spiders to my ears. I'm not a big W(TA) hater, but I do actively dislike Everlasting Everything and feel there's only 3 or 4 really solid songs on it.

Like comparing Michael Phelps and me in the pool. SBS.

First time I've heard someone who likes Everlasting Everything. I know people who tolerate it, but never really considered someone requesting it.

Do you really think anyone has ever been shut up by an opposing comment on FB?

This made me chuckle.

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But the main reason the budget looked great was the smoke and mirrors of the internet bubble. I think Bush missed a HUGE opportunity (not that he was looking for it, unfortunately) following 9/11 to bring discussion of sacrifice back into the political realm. People would have been willing to or shamed to pay more taxes or buy something like war bonds to support the fight in Afghanistan (if not Iraq). Tom Friedman at the time was calling for a $1/gallon gas tax. That would have been politically more difficult than Friedman let on, but the idea was in the right direction. The tax cuts the