Organization tip
Have a box for everything.
(Hat Tip: Lydia Duffy)
Iron Man 2
Here’s the trailer:
I’m not sure that could look any more awesome. Nice to see Mickey Rourke’s comeback continues.
Correction of the year
The Washington Post snags the award for best correction of 2009. From the Web-site Regret the Error:
This year’s winner is without question amusing — not to mention embarrassing for the news organization the published it — in that it demonstrates a certain amount of cultural/musical ignorance. But it earns Correction of the Year honors because of what happened after it was published. This Washington Post correction inspired an amusing Twitter hashtag, which saw people come together to come up with imagined corrections. It’s Correction of the Year because it communicates that people notice and care about corrections, and because it demonstrates the participatory potential being unleashed by the Internet. The correction:
A Nov. 26 article in the District edition of Local Living incorrectly said a Public Enemy song declared 9/11 a joke. The song refers to 911, the emergency phone number.
Here’s the Twitter hashtag. My favorite gem from the Twitterati:
George Clinton has assured us his roof remains intact and he takes fire safety quite seriously.
This is why I voted for Barack Obama
From the NY Times:
Addressing critics who have likened Afghanistan to Vietnam, Mr. Obama called the comparison “a false reading of history.” And he spoke directly to the American people about the tough road ahead.“Let me be clear: none of this will be easy,” Mr. Obama said. “The struggle against violent extremism will not be finished quickly, and it extends well beyond Afghanistan and Pakistan. It will be an enduring test of our free society, and our leadership in the world. And unlike the great power conflicts and clear lines of division that defined the 20th century, our effort will involve disorderly regions and diffuse enemies.”
In language that often echoed themes struck by his predecessor, George W. Bush, Mr. Obama cited the longstanding moral burden carried by the United States in global affairs, and he celebrated America as a nation “founded in resistance to oppression.”
Had President John McCain made this speech, half the country would have ignored it as the ramblings of a war-mongering neo-con.
As I said before the election:
But, pacifist Democrats would have to accept that the President of the United States must sometimes act in unilateral ways to achieve national security goals. Seven years after 9/11, I think it’s time a Democrat holds the responsibility for the protection of the United States. It will change the tenor of the debate dramatically.
He did.
