Coen Brothers “Clean Coal” PSA
This little ditty was directed by the Coen Brothers. I keep waiting for Javier Bardem to limp out the front door of that house. It looks remarkably the same to me.
Coen Brothers “Clean Coal” PSA [VIDEO]
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Judith Butler on the Election
And the thought of Obama, a thoughtful and progressive black candidate, shifts the historical ground, and we feel that cataclysm as it produces a new terrain. But let us try to think carefully about the shifted terrain, although we cannot fully know its contours at this time. The election of Barack Obama is historically significant in ways that are yet to be gauged, but it is not, and cannot be, a redemption, and if we subscribe to the heightened modes of identification that he proposes (”we are all united”) or that we propose (”he is one of us”), we risk believing that this political moment can overcome the antagonisms that are constitutive of political life, especially political life in these times. There have always been good reasons not to embrace “national unity” as an ideal, and to nurse suspicions toward absolute and seamless identification with any political leader. After all, fascism relied in part on that seamless identification with the leader, and Republicans engage this same effort to organize political affect when, for instance, Elizabeth Dole looks out on her audience and says, “I love each and every one of you.”
Uncritical Exuberance? : Indybay
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330 - From Pickin’ Cotton to Pickin’ Presidents « Strange Maps
The link between these two maps is not causal, but correlational, and the correlation is African-Americans. Once they were the slaves on whom the cotton economy had to rely for harvesting. Despite an outward migration towards the Northern cities, their settlement pattern now still closely corresponds to that of those days.
During the Democratic primary, many African-American voters supported Hillary Clinton, thinking it unlikely Barack Obama would win the nomination, let alone the presidency. When it became apparent that Obama had a good shot at the nomination (and thereafter at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue itself), their support for Obama became near monolithic. As it turns out, president-elect Obama won with the an overall support of 53%, but that includes over 90% of black voters (1).
330 - From Pickin’ Cotton to Pickin’ Presidents « Strange Maps
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Patrick Moberg Obama Tribute
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Obamas’ SS Codenames
Rosebud?
Barack Obama (President-elect) - Renegade
Michelle Obama - Renaissance
Malia Obama - Radiance
Sasha Obama - Rosebud
Secret Service codename - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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“Fox & Friends” Host Steve Doocy Falsely Identifies Barack Obama At Polling Place, Says Of Black Man: “There He Is!”
“Fox & Friends” host Steve Doocy falsely identified Barack Obama while waiting for the Democratic nominee to emerge at his polling place in Chicago Tuesday morning.”There he is, he just walked in,” Doocy said, as the image of a casually dressed, random black man appeared across the screen. “That’s a picture, the back of his head, into the gymnasium to cast his vote. I think we know who he’s gonna be voting for.”
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My Ballot
I was one of the first in line at the polling place in West Hollywood. Here is what my ballot basically looks like. I used the sample ballot from the lavote.net website.
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My Electoral College Prediction
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20 Posters that will make Americans vote
20 Posters that will make Americans vote | The Ad Mad! - Creative Advertising, Art and Design blog
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Palin Hates Science
The retort:
[S]cientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine have shown that a protein called neurexin is required for..nerve cell connections to form and function correctly.
The discovery, made in Drosophila fruit flies may lead to advances in understanding autism spectrum disorders, as recently, human neurexins have been identified as a genetic risk factor for autism.
Think Progress » Memo To Palin: Fruit Fly Research Has Led To Advances In Understanding Autism
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