Daily Archive: February 12, 2016
Bill Kristol is wrong about things | Idiot Joy Showland
The respected American political commentator Bill Kristol is consistently wrong about things, and it’s funny, until you start seeing dead bodies on your lawn. This week, he predicted that Marco Rubio would win the...
P. G. Wodehouse Interview
When I first went to see him, I telephoned P. G. Wodehouse and asked for directions from New York to his house on Long Island. He merely chuckled, as if I had asked him to compare Euclid with Einstein or attempt some other laughably impossible task. “Oh, I can’t tell you that,” he said. “I don’t have a clue.”
From P. G. Wodehouse, The Art of Fiction No. 60Interviewed by Gerald Clarke — The Paris Review
Erica Garner’s Commercial Endorsing Bernie Sanders for President
The Senator didn’t reach out to me all of a sudden because he needs help with Black people. He didn’t put out a press conference announcing that we would be working together. He didn’t force me to frame my support of him around a subject matter that special interest groups that support him can get behind. They said we are glad to have your support, how do you want to plug in. You will see a lot of Black leaders handing out endorsements, think to yourself, have they historically been a rubber stamp for the establishment? I hope this expresses why I think Bernie is our guy!
From: Erica Garner’s Commercial Endorsing Bernie Sanders for President – Erica Garner
{Via Vikram Bath}
How Google Searches Pretty Much Nailed the New Hampshire Primary – Bloomberg
Google’s ability to look into the future of political contests just notched another win: New Hampshire. Searches of presidential candidates conducted by Google users in New Hampshire on Feb. 9 corresponded closely with the voting results...
The Destatuification of a Justice
Or, an opportunity to meditate upon our ambiguous legal history and its uncomfortable place in contemporary political life.
