[Youtube] Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Upon This Tidal Wave of Young Blood

For John Louie, not that he reads this blog.

[Eugene] Margaret B. Jones

Who knew?

[Autism] "Not damaged. Not dysfunctional. Just different."

Found via BB, this Wired article on autism:
Should autism be treated? Yes, says Baggs, it should be treated with respect. “People aren’t interested in us functioning with the brains we have,” she says, because autism is considered to be outside the range of normal variability. “I don’t fit the stereotype of autism. But who does?” [...]

[Almost Blogtastic Navel-Gazing] The Perfect Summing-up

Atrios encapsulates the absurdity of the last eight years in perhaps the best way I’ve ever seen:
There must have been a moment, at the beginning, where we could have said — no. But, somehow we missed it.
Well, we’ll know better next time.
-Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
My god, he’s good.
I kind of want to [...]

[Youtube] Animator vs. Animation

Hilarious.
Somehow, it seems old-school in its creativity. Simple, unreliant on effects (despite the medium), etc. Fantasia-like, even.
OK, maybe that last was a bit overboard. But it’s neat nonetheless.

[Lebanon Truth] A Response to A Particularly Frustrating Comment

This post is written as a response to a comment on this post over at LT’s.
Anonymous @ 5:30 PM…. I don’t even know where to begin, except to say that my experience does not match your impression of LHS. At all.
I’m going to go through all the claims you make one by one… [...]

[NYT] Diablo Cody in the NYT

She was in there, of course, because Juno won Best Original Screenplay, and she wrote it.
But tell me how, Mssrs. Halbfinger and Cieply, is this relevant:
The indie delight “Juno,” about a pregnant teenager with a mouth on her, won for best original screenplay, by Diablo Cody, who once worked as a stripper. She tearfully thanked [...]

[GDP] Evidence is so 1990s…

I would like this a lot more if the numbers weren’t there and I could pretend is was drawn by someone in kindergarten or first grade. As is, it’s a bit depressing.
Found here.

[Media] Another blog goes into the RSS reader…

From someone named Douglas McLennan, blogging over at the National Arts Journalism Program:
Is there anyone not talking about a crisis in the news industry? The New York Times is dumping 100 jobs. The troubled Tribune Company is offloading 400-500 people. And across the country there are reports of slumping advertising and impending layoffs. Now this [...]

[Hasso Hering] Surrender to the forces of reason? Never!

Face-melting should be caused by guitar solos, not this:
We will never reform or improve our system of paying for health care as long as policy wonks are in charge of the debate.
You know, as asinine and wrong as that statement is, at least it’s clear where he stands.
Oh. Wait. That’s not justification for [...]

[Daily Barometer] Great Editorial on PeaceJam

This is so good it makes me think someone other than the normal editorial board wrote it.
Nevertheless, it’s a great piece. And a great starting point (honestly, the Baro has a lot of work to do with its own staff before it can move to the rest of campus):
Examination of prejudice and preconceived notions [...]

[Iraq] Sick of It – March 19th

Found on the Alt2War website:
Sick Of It Day is a day for everybody who is SICK OF THE LIES, SICK OF THE CORRUPTION, SICK OF THE WAR to make their statement in a way it will really count—CALL IN SICK on March 19, the 5th anniversary of the Iraq invasion!
In our own Declaration of Independence, [...]

[xkcd] Best. Comic. Ever.

Oh, it rings so true… like it was made for me.

… the point being, of course, that it doesn’t matter that someone is wrong on the Internet.
Or, anyway, that it shouldn’t. Certainly it’s not worth not going to bed over.
And yet…

[bz] Because I Am Feeling Uninspired and Because All Five Readers of This Blog Should See This

Found here.

[LCSD] A Commenter at LT Makes a Good Point

From this comment at LT:

Mr. Alexander, Ms. Shimmin, Mr. Wineteer, we will be watching to see if you have learned to listen to the advice of counsel and avoid further violating the rights of employees of the District. I also want an opportunity to evaluate you and the Board and think that the community should [...]