A little Americana

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Sunday September 18, 2016 · 12:47 AM PDT

2016/09/18 · 00:47

Today I witnessed a beautiful bit of Americana. Consider, if you will, Union City, CA. Out of a liquor store runs a black teenager and, following him, the owner, a vaguely Asian middle-aged dude (very, very vaguely Asian…). They almost get into a fight, with the black dude dropping a 2-liter red soda bottle adopting a pretty pro boxer stance (I’ve seen that shit before at San Mateo Caltrain station by the way). That’s when I ride onto the scene to really just get a bottle of water from the store, but telling them to chill it. So for whatever reason the black dude runs away. The Asian dude stands on the corner yelling “Nigger, nigger, nigger” for a while. Comes back inside, gets a pepper spray bottle, stands on the corner yelling “Nigger, nigger” some more.

Tells me he has a gun too.

It was beautiful, as a character from the Usual Suspects put it.

Isn’t it?

Bush v. Gore by Obama

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Saturday December 20, 2008 · 6:15 AM PST

2008/12/20 · 06:15

I decided to spend some time captioning Obama's latest Weekly Address (results below), and it was less of a chore than a pure enjoyment.

Obama delivers a nice, just-subtle-enough re-examination of Bush v. Gore - not the legal process, but the substance.

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Thursday March 08, 2007 · 1:39 PM PST

2007/03/08 · 13:39

"Vanilla-soy-latte-drinking" Starbucks customers are not necessarily "tofu-eating", "Birkenstock-wearing", but probably "NPR-listening". The yuppies (ok, I called myself a yuppie) can afford the coffee, like the "ambience", bla-bla-bla. We all understand the branding here. The Starbucks crowd doesn't necessarily want to free Tibet, but obviously tend to be educated and socially liberal. I think...

But what with the recent worrying about the brand's future, maybe the company wants to, Dean-like perhaps, to open up their tents to, uh, another demographic?

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Wednesday November 01, 2006 · 11:15 PM PST

2006/11/01 · 23:15

I haven't followed the story of Dick Morris's break with Clinton and all that jazz, and I don't really care why he now writes for outfits like NewsMax (perhaps the answer is "because they pay him"). But check out his latest piece. In "Dig Through Zogby Numbers, he says:

If talk-radio show hosts, cable news stations, and the White House do what they do best - talk to their base - they should be able to turn the situation around.

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A little Americana

Bush v. Gore by Obama

Starbucks: Fair and balanced

Did Dick Morris just say what I thought he said?