Bob Barr declares for President…

as a Libertarian… and he has some interesting things to say about the two major parties.

I find it very interesting and very revealing to hear a Southern Republican former Congressman (and Reagan appointee!) say this about the party he was in for decades:

The one thing that matters to Republicans above all else and to the exclusion of virtually everything else — other than raising money — is to elect people to office and keep people in office.

Principle and substance has no longer anything to do with what the party stands for, particularly at the national level.

He also touches on the fact that the “Democrat” [sic] Party has “fallen into the same trap: the trap of incumbency.”

Younger than John McCain

Maybe a riff on Barack Obama is your new bicycle (or at least a very interesting counterpoint), here are some things younger than John McCain. Included are—well, I won’t spoil the surprise. Just visit the site.

I know it’s silly and clichéd and unoriginal for me to say this, but I love the Internet.

RIP, Robert Rauschenberg

“Robert Rauschenberg, dubbed by the New York Times as a “Titan of American Art,” has died, aged 82.

I grew up seeing his work over and over again, and it has had a subtle but lasting impression on me. He was a master of capturing the energy and imagery of the mid- to late-20th century.

All Your Baseball Questions Are Belong To Us

This is a great read for anyone who loves baseball, and I know you do:

Bill James Answers All Your Baseball Questions (from the NY Times “Freakonomics” blog)

I really need to get some Bill James books.

Saving the world, whatever that means

While I’m not blogging or anything, go ahead and read this post detailing The Top Root Causes of Everything Wrong With the World. Let me know what you find out. That is an early entry on a blog I probably want to read. I’m noting it here so that it will enter my consciousness every time I check to see whether or not I’ve posted a blog entry lately [I haven’t]).

I have been commenting on other websites a lot lately, which strikes me as, if not stupid per se, then at best wasted energy. Why should I provide my awesome content and insights to other websites, when I have one right here dying from lack of care and feeding? There is no good reason save sheer laziness. (I think there are other, bad reasons, though.)

Good old King Kaufman got me going on a bunch of tangents tonight by listing a few bloggers he liked a lot. That distracted me from my main task of the moment, which is (shh!) updating my online portfolio. Not just updating it — completely creating a new one almost entirely from scratch, since my current portfolio site was designed sometime around 2001 or 2002 and was last updated in 2004. Now that it’s “time for a change” (imagine me saying that in my best Bill Clinton voice), a new portfolio is due.

an important point you may have overlooked

"To Do"

I guess used bookstore owners don’t really need to make lists entitled “books to be filed.”

heroes

Miranda July is amazing.

So is zefrank, but in a totally different way.

I also added a couple projects to my cafepress page (link in navbar) and even ordered a couple of them. Hmmm.

Oh, shoot! Happy Birthday, Ruthie! I really probably should have planned something for my niece’s fifth birthday but I’m too darn wrapped up in myself to plan ahead. Also, she’s 2,724 miles away at the moment. Crap.

Update!

It’s no longer Leap Day.

Today is…

Some people take this stuff very seriously.

John Nichols on Bill Clinton’s usefulness to Hillary in 2008

John Nichols, a great writer for The Nation, writes that Bill Clinton “has proven to be about as useful to Hillary Clinton prospects in 2008 as former Florida Congressman Mark Foley was to House Republicans in 2006.”

Hilarious. The whole blog post is here.

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