Just North of Something Important

2009

December
October 49
August 92
July 40
June 68
May 43
April 83
March 113
January 114

2008

December 145
November 154
October 178
September 170
August 128
July 57
June 103
May 19
April
March 3
February
January
On Day for China Pride, Little Interest in...
Oct 1st
“Did not mean to climb it, but got excited, and soon was on...”
— John Muir. Or, to put it...
Sep 30th

Our inglorious Constitution

In the fundamental differences of opinion that divide committed conservatives from committed...
Sep 30th
Bless you, Colbert Report writers, for making an obscure...
Sep 29th
Warch Watch
I don’t really understand how to use webcams, so this looks like I’m using a...
Sep 25th
hedgieshedgieshedgies: erizo (via titín) I am annoyed by a...
Sep 25th

Denby was right

Until yesterday, I had not had any significant meatspace human contact (aside from like “your...
Sep 23rd
igather: I’d never worked before with such a large section...
Sep 23rd
(via czupcaks)
Sep 23rd

An alternate explanation for the "indie...

When we (and by “we” I mean you, me, us, the ones here reading this) describe something...
Sep 23rd
“President Barack Obama’s daughter Sasha hides...
Sep 23rd
“The important thing is to keep stumbling in the right...”
— Bill Clinton, on policy.
Sep 22nd
hatethefuture: whythefuckdoyouhaveakid: becuz god loves...
Sep 21st
This is where I currently am, the reading room of the...
Sep 21st
Warch Watch
If you saw the new crop of SNL men a few years back and thought Bill Hader would turn out to be such...
Sep 20th
S A TUR DAY - NIGHT!
Sep 20th
The Dirty 3 at the Crocodile last night.
Sep 19th

Believing their own press

The GOP is feeling its oats, Adam Nagourney says.  Of course, as he points out, nothing has really...
Sep 19th

Monopoly City Streets = Awesome

winkmit: Last week, Monopoly and Google Maps launched a site that allows people to buy and trade...
Sep 18th
(Liars - Drum’s Not Dead) Hadn’t really liked...
Sep 18th

Kooky activist types

I can’t quantify this or anything, but an awful lot of female characters on TV and in movies...
Sep 18th
Aw, roomies!  Are you sitting around the living room...
Sep 18th

Surprise me, Trebek

There’s something primally satisfying about watching Andy Richter kick Wolf Blitzer’s...
Sep 18th

Let's look on the bright side

We on the left all got sorta freaked out about health care reform this summer, and while we’ve...
Sep 18th
I’m putting together a big Flickr set of the trip now,...
Sep 17th
wellrespected: raptoravatar: “A fun Liefeld drinking...
Sep 16th
Warch Watch
A Facebook friend posted this, and it’s a good point.  How quickly our standards have risen! ...
Sep 16th
dorkismo: a special kind of dork: God Loves...
Sep 15th

The ANTM Event Horizon

lastbutnotleast: I’m a little ashamed to even be posting on the MTV VMAs. I’m 31 for Pete’s sake!...
Sep 15th

Why you need to vote

mikehudack: ohhleary: When I went to my polling place this morning, the polls had already been...
Sep 15th

The only people who think the...

youngmanhattanite: maura: (via youngmanhattanite) Define “enjoy,” pls. (Three sentences or...
Sep 15th

I am back

Dropped Rachel off at the airport (a bald eagle cries a single tear, etc.) where I saw a story about...
Sep 14th

Oh good

Socially conservative Americans, having previously decided to worship a literal interpretation of...
Sep 11th
And here we are.
Sep 11th

Representative exchange from the final...

Me: Testicle festival. Rachel: Testicle festival? Me: Testicle festival!  Testicle festival! ...
Sep 10th
Wilson Wyoming.
Sep 8th
Our prarie schooner at Devil’s Rock, WY.
Sep 6th
Scottsbluff, Nebraska.  (Unexpectedly, it turns out the song...
Sep 6th
Me at Carhenge, Alliance, NE.
Sep 6th
A rainbow, seen from WY-135 northbound.
Sep 6th
The view coming down the side of a mountain on WY-135...
Sep 6th
World’s largest covered wagon, Lincoln, IL.  (Yes, it...
Sep 3rd
Russell Stover outlet store, Lincoln, IL.
Sep 3rd
Baby Bull’s Restaurant, Pontiac, IL.
Sep 3rd
Nebraska radio: where you can scan from one station playing Whitesnake to a totally different one...
Sep 2nd
At LC’s BBQ in Kansas City pork-drunk out of our...
Sep 1st
Warch Watch
It’s actually more autumnal in Topeka right now, honestly.
Sep 1st