[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] Above is a “word cloud” by Wordle, created via manipulation of the CSV file included in my personal Twitter archive, showing the 350 most frequently used words in the 79,787 tweets that I published – “new-style retweets” excluded – between August 26, 2008 and July 25, 2013. You can get… Read more »
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] Later today, the U.S. House of Representatives will vote on an amendment that would repudiate and defund the executive and judicial branches’ secret, lawless abuse of the Patriot Act’s “business records” provision. It needs to pass. I don’t use words like “lawless” lightly, nor do I regularly throw around allegations… Read more »
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] VICTORY. Good riddance, #DOMA.
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] The sunset in Denver last night was absolutely stunning, because of smoke from the Lime Gulch Fire. (The wildfires are awful. But they do create a certain perilous, bittersweet beauty at times, and this was the ultimate example of that.) I was heading to Walgreens to pick up prescriptions when… Read more »
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] Two quick announcements about my Twitter “hiatus”: 1. In order to alleviate ongoing terminological confusion about the intended scope of the hiatus – which was never designed to result in literally zero or near-zero tweets; my original goal was 200 tweets in 30 days, and I’d be within striking distance… Read more »
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] The @midmajority reaches the Final Four!! Again!!
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry nerds! It is the music of a people Who want accuracy in words When the NCAA lies And the sports media succumbs There is an outrage that will spread Till correction comes Will you join in our crusade? Who… Read more »
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] Totally juvenile observation: anyone see the resemblance between Mitch Daniels and Dobby the House-Elf? TNR commenter “bmoodie”
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] Mommy, when I put my hand on my heart, I can hear it beeping! Loyette
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] Today I am announcing my candidacy for President of the United States. You can watch my announcement here. http://bit.ly/kEbh7d Newt Gingrich, on Twitter