I hope you don’t mind if I share a few of my favorite pics from the past couple of days:
I’m totally fascinated by Rahm Emanuel for some reason.  Here he is at the inauguration, gesturing with four more fingers than he typically uses (at a roast for the earthy politician, Obama joked that Emanuel’s loss [...]

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All right, fellow Americans in the crowd, ready for a throw-down?  Here’s a civic literacy quiz (by way of Briandy)–try to beat my score of 32 out of 33 (97%). [corrected from my earlier 36 out of 37--thanks, leisurely viking!]
I have some good excuses: I’m a poli sci grad, I studied years ago for the [...]

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When I was a kid, we had the story of Rindercella taped to our refrigerator. I loved reading it. I grew up in a family where the dominant form of humor was puns, including Spoonerisms. While I was first discovering teh Intarwebs, I looked for Rindercella, a candidate for being somewhere online if ever there [...]

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…by looking at who Obama & co follow on the White House twitter feed:

Ooh, the governator’s in there–his tweets would be tought to do, ’cause his name uses up half your allotment. But where’s the love for McCain (I think his id is HelpMyArmsAreStuck)? And I added you–where’s the reciprocal love?
Update 08:30 PST:
Maybe that wasn’t [...]

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