February 2010
newsweek:
jongroat:
Noticed some buzz about The Pains of Being Pure at Heart in the Tumblrverse. Here’s a video a couple of my producers shot of them in their Brooklyn practice space last summer.
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Lady Gaga and Elton John At The Grammys
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Beyoncé At The Grammys
Winning a Grammy is the highest honor a musician can get, second to having the...
– Stephen Colbert
(via popculturebrain) (via fuckyeahstephencolbert) (via bringmethathorizon) (via apsies)
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Obama to propose sweeping changes to No Child Left...
The Obama administration is proposing a sweeping overhaul of President Bush’s signature education law, No Child Left Behind, and will call for broad changes in how schools are judged to be succeeding or failing, as well as for the elimination of the law’s 2014 deadline for bringing every American child to academic proficiency.
Educators who have been briefed by administration officials said the...
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January 2010
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“The only time [the Obama] administration ever cites the previous administration...
– Leading Republican in the Senate Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky. via
fine but where were your criticisms then? were you asleep? did you not care about the security of our country then?
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I mean everybody hates her who’s ever written a book because they...
– Fox News Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes on Sarah Palin.
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Howard Kurtz, Joan Walsh, Chip Reid & David Frum debate the State of the Union address and Obama’s visit to the GOP retreat.
afghanibanani:
Scott Brown’s first day on the job
killer funny!
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And so it is with finance. Those who think that “too big to fail” is the essence...
– Paul Krugman
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At the time Obama appointed his economics team, he was focused on getting a team...
– Joe Stiglitz explains why he isn’t serving in the Administration, but gosh, what else does this tell you? - via CW of realitychex
entire interview here
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SNL’s Weekend Update. - Obama’s Q&A
Actor ‘Rip’ Torn, 78, is charged with breaking into a Connecticut bank and...
– BreakingNews
Artie? Artie? (via skybarn)
Sen. Al Franken Announces Bill to Keep Foreign Interests Out of Elections...
– crooksandliars
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it’s like that
"The things you love annoy me."
dailyhuff:
From: How to be a Tumblr Contrarian, by most Tumblr users at one time or another.