Babies in Bars in Brooklyn!

And more specifically in my neighborhood of Park Slope! Not cool babies, not cool.

Read the article here and take the poll to see how people feel about babies in bars.

He's trying

Again and again, I keep on trying to hammer out there that it's not what the president accomplishes it's how.  People keep on forgetting that the founders intended for Congress to handle what the country accomplishes (or doesn't accomplish for that matter).

Here's President Obama's letter to Congress concerning healthcare reform and on his openness to key Republican ideas in crafting and shaping the bill.


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Quote of the Day

“Those who are responsible for training for the Olympics must take responsibility. They must have the courage to submit their resignation. And if they do not have this resolve, we will help them.” - President Dmitri Medvedev, on Russia's poor Olympic performance.

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The beautiful end of white / black culture

This week the girls of Zeta Tau Alpha, a sorority comprised of mostly white members from the University of Arkansas won the 2010 Sprite Step-Off a.k.a.The National Stepping Championship in Atlanta, Georgia.  Just watch how the largely black audience is totally eating up their performance. We are still a racially polarized society, but stuff likes this makes it more and more evident that at least for our generation and those younger than us, the culture and racial wars are largely over and irrelevant.



In case you weren't aware, stepping is an African-American version of cheerleading prominent in high school (and some collegiate) basketball and football games and is heavily used in the Greek system as an initiation practice.  Here's a more offical definition from Wikipedia.

Stepping or step-dancing is a form of percussive dance in which the participant's entire body is used as an instrument to produce complex rhythms and sounds through a mixture of footsteps, spoken word, and hand claps. Though stepping may be performed by an individual, it is generally performed by groups of three or more, often in arrangements that resemble military formations.

For a more eloquent discussion of this event and its cultural impact on the black community, read this article from TheRoot.com.

Awesome

Students at Johns Hopkins peacefully protest the man who authorized torture in the Bush Administration.



We win the war on terror by being as brave as our military, to die for our freedoms and ideals, not to sacrifice them the minute there is some statistical possibility of our own demise. Whatever happened to "Give me liberty or give me death!" If we succumb to the fear that the terrorists are trying to make us feel then they win.

"I believe prostitution is completely wrong for America and my family but...

...if someone sends me a free escort, I will definitely bang her, because I mean come on, you're just not going to turn down a free prostitute. Did I mention it was free?" - Congressional Republicans on the stimulus.

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Look, obviously the stimulus has ruined the American economy.  And taking this money, according to Republican economic theory will only hurt their districts in the long run, "a sugar high" says the American Enterprise Institute.

If you don't believe in the program fine, I salute you.  Stick to your principles and don't take the money with a big smile on your face and take credit for the jobs it created.  Remember this money is really bad for America.  Unless you were prepared to cut spending AND raise taxes then you are a Keynesian regardless of your party!  A stimulus of all tax cuts (proposed by Republicans in late 2008 / early 2009) would still have been Keynesian stimulus!

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