Start your Memegines

Jolly Roger at Reconstitution 2.0 passes on that, “Technorati and Google don’t count blogrolls but DO count links in posts.” Randel from L’ennui Mélodieux ups the ante with the observation, ” Nothing beats lazy man blogging…” In light of these developments I feel I am charged with producing the following:

Beau Monde
Atrios’s Eschaton
BAGnewsNotes
Balloon Juice [...]

Hey, what’s the point of this…

Nader Announces Run for President
By HOPE YEN
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ralph Nader on Sunday announced a fresh bid for the White House, criticizing the top contenders as too close to big business and dismissing the possibility that his third-party candidacy could tip the election to Republicans.
The longtime consumer advocate is still loathed by many Democrats who [...]

The wounds linger on.

Via Billboard:
“The songs collected here are the sounds that have helped to inspire me and keep me going as I struggle to find the strength to deal with my new physical limitations while trying to find the energy to fight when many parts of my body and brain are telling me to stop,” Young says. [...]

Light reading on the Sabbath

Notes on the State of Virginia: Query XVII: Religion
Thomas Jefferson
1781
The different religions received into that state?
The first settlers in this country were emigrants from England, of the English church, just at a point of time when it was flushed with complete victory over the religious of all other persuasions. Possessed, as they became, of the [...]

Are you ready for the weekend?

I am.

Enemy Sited!

February 20, 2008, 12:36 pm
Bottled Water Is the Enemy
By Freakonomics
Mayor Ken Livingstone of London is urging his citizens to forego bottled water in light of the drag it puts on the environment. Mayor Mike Bloomberg of New York has done the same. Others, meanwhile, have taken the further step of an outright ban on [...]

…and now that we’re done with Gender,

Let’s move on to Race:

“Laura, look at the spear on that one…”

I’m not ready to make nice.

NavySwan says to, “get over it already,’ to, “move on to more important things already.” Maybe I will, but I have to say my piece first. *Warning, the rest of this post does not get any less “inside blogball.”* This wont be short, either.
My first clue came down from the heavens like a lightning bolt [...]

You never forget.

Update: The Drive By Truckers, “The Man I Shot” has been pulled from Youtube, although you can still see the compelling video at the above link. In it’s place I give you a bit of foreshadowing with Tool’s “Schism.”

Here’s your sign.

“Disappointed” Huckabee Keeps “Marching On”
…even better.