I Think She Knows Interlude by John Mayer
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May 09
May 01
Reddit community sends Helen Thomas flowers for being the only journalist with the balls to question the Bush Administration on torture.
Apr 24
Apr 22
“ Ignorance in the United States is not just bliss, it’s widespread.
Apr 16
“ He has the depth, the reflectiveness, and the resilience to be our next president. He speaks to the America I’ve envisioned in my music for the past 35 years, a generous nation with a citizenry willing to tackle nuanced and complex problems, a country that’s interested in its collective destiny and in the potential of its gathered spirit. A place where ‘…nobody crowds you, and nobody goes it alone.’
Apr 15
stop the government bailout
“ You tell the truth in a Presidential race, you get in trouble. You lie through your teeth about dodging bullets in Bosnia, you make a joke about it and move on.
Apr 13
Meet Mason, Catherine’s new beagle/dashchund puppy. Adopted from California Underdogs Rescue in Oakland, April 12th 2008. (via andybelike)
Apr 12
Apr 07
Spike Lee on Obama and Clinton
What do you think of Obama?
I’m riding my man Obama. I think he’s a visionary. Actually, Barack told me the first date he took Michelle to was Do the Right Thing. I said, “Thank God I made it. Otherwise you would have taken her to Soul Man. Michelle would have been like, ‘What’s wrong with this brother?’ ”
Does this mean you’re down on the Clintons?
The Clintons, man, they would lie on a stack of Bibles. Snipers? That’s not misspeaking; that’s some pure bulls***. I voted for Clinton twice, but that’s over with. These old black politicians say, “Ooh, Massuh Clinton was good to us, massuh hired a lot of us, massuh was good!” Hoo! Charlie Rangel, David Dinkins—they have to understand this is a new day. People ain’t feelin’ that stuff. It’s like a tide, and the people who get in the way are just gonna get swept out into the ocean.
Apr 05
“ Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, ‘Is it politic?’ Vanity asks the question, ‘Is it popular?’ But, conscience asks the question, ‘Is it right?’ And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because one’s conscience tells one that it is right.
— Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Apr 04
» King's final crusade: The radical push for a new America - CNN.com
Most Americans think of King as the “I Have a Dream” preacher at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. But the man who made his final trip to Memphis, Tennessee, in 1968 had become radical, scholars and activists say. King was gambling his legacy on a final crusade that was so revolutionary, it alarmed many of his closest advisers.
Mar 28
“ Democrats should not have to act like Republicans to pass some test on national security. It’s time to end the politics of fear.