colin powell endorses obama on mtp

punishment park on sundance now (wikipedia)

recd flwg email - anything to this?

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plumbing the depths

washington post endorses obama.

two very funny speeches from barack obama and mccain at a ny fundraiser tonight. probably be online tomorrow but will rerun on the rachel maddow show tonight around 11:15 on msnbc.

ship shape

The North Wind Blew South

city winery via tony

i just voted, had to sign up to vote but its a landslide:>)

http://www.economist.com/vote2008/

The Bradley effect, Mr. Greenwald concluded, “has conceptually mutated.” “It’s not something that’s an absolute that we should generally expect, but something that will vary with the cultural context and the desirability of expressing pro-black attitudes.”

its a snap.

debate preview

CNN is diving into the increasingly crowded arena of news-driven comedy, tapping comedian D.L. Hughley to host a show that will offer a skewering take on news and events.

this is not sex

nytree

pork scratchings

buckley endorses obama. sacked from national review.

this was the movie were were talking about, dave, though i have no idea why we were talking about it now. must have been after mark brought out the single malt.

big silver

If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger, There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats

An Ongoing Series of Cultural and Personal Observations

Just great. We're in Spain and Ferran Adria is shopping in the Essex St. Market and cooking in somebody's walkup on the Lower East Side:

I had proposed a kind of stunt in which he would visit the Lower East Side with me, shop in Chinatown and cook a meal.

Frightening flashback - Oct. 2-4 2000 Presidential poll from CNN: Gore 51% Bush 40%.

But things are different this time, right?

well if you had money for risks
you could make almost 20% buying and selling today alone

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