The Dark Knight soundtrack - Like a Dog Chasing Cars
I haven’t seen the movie yet, but the soundtrack is already tickling my ears. This particular track showcases the hero theme pretty well, along with sliding in some of the Joker’s music there at the end. Good stuff, and I have no idea what sort of on-screen action it accompanies.
This also marks the beginning of my internet-hibernation as I try to avoid all possible Dark Knight spoilers before I get to see it Saturday afternoon.
I’m also seeing it Saturday afternoon. Just bought the soundtrack to tide me over.
10. More. Days.
Obama criticizes the right-wing media for negative attacks on his wife.
It always baffles me why the media chose to attack Michelle, who is in my opinion all-caps AWESOME. I love her. She’s smart, hard-working, well-spoken, and very cool. She has accomplished so much in her life, and I feel she is someone I can really admire and respect. Currently, she’s on a short list of amazing female role models. Even on her own merits, I feel she needs no defending. She’s an incredible lady.
However, the fact that she has gotten so much flack, while Cindy McCain has received none, is what really galls me. Cindy McCain, who was born an heiress to a beer fortune, who ran around with a man who was married and had children, and who as a privileged adult became a prescription drug addict…and you want to sling mud at Michelle Obama? I’m not saying Cindy McCain is a bad person at all or that she deserves anywhere near the kind of criticism Michelle has received in the media…but if she doesn’t deserve it, then Michelle certainly doesn’t. Just my two cents.
For clues about who might be next to get a show on MSNBC, viewers need not have looked further than “Countdown” earlier this month. For eight nights beginning just before the Fourth of July, Rachel Maddow, the host of a program on Air America, the liberal talk-radio network, served as a substitute for the vacationing Keith Olbermann.
“At some point, I don’t know when, she should have a show,” said Phil Griffin, hours before he was promoted on Wednesday to president of MSNBC. “She’s on the short list. It’s a very short list. She’s at the top.”
“Now in Living Rooms, the Host Apparent
Sooner rather than later would be great, Phil!
(via jessicalouise)
aw, cute.
Letter to HHS from Senators Clinton and Murray
Secretary Michael O. Leavitt
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
200 Independence Avenue, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20201
Dear Mr. Secretary:
It has come to our attention that the Department of Health and Human Services may be preparing draft regulations that would create new obstacles for women seeking contraceptive services.
One of the most troubling aspects of the proposed rules is the overly-broad definition of “abortion.” This definition would allow health-care corporations or individuals to classify many common forms of contraception – including the birth control pill, emergency contraception and IUDs – “abortions” and therefore to refuse to provide contraception to women who need it.
As a consequence, these draft regulations could disrupt state laws securing women’s access to birth control. They could jeopardize federal programs like Medicaid and Title X that provide family-planning services to millions of women. They could even undermine state laws that ensure survivors of sexual assault and rape receive emergency contraception in hospital emergency rooms.
We strongly urge you to reconsider these regulations before they are released. We are extremely concerned by this proposal’s potential to affect millions of women’s reproductive health.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Sincerely yours,
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton
Senator Patty Murray
(via Shakesville)
seriously, they are going to make sure that i have a baby
everyone’s been talking about the bush administration’s regulations that would define abortion to include contraception. while it’s funny in a haha our leaders are so wacky with their total disregard for logic and reason way, it’s also scary in that it would directly affect me. (and in all likelihood, you, regardless of your gender.) as an upper middle class white woman who doesn’t have any family in the military, it’s rare for something to affect me this directly. rhrealitycheck explains:
“Here are just four examples of how the Bush regulations could affect women’s access to contraception:
- This regulation could affect good state laws that require hospitals to provide emergency contraception to rape victims.
- The regulation could undermine laws that ensure pharmacies fill women’s prescriptions for birth control.
- The proposal could allow health-care corporations (hospitals, HMOs, and health plans) to refuse to provide services or make referrals not only for abortion but also for birth control.
- Twenty seven states have laws requiring health-care plans to cover contraception on an equal basis with other prescription medications. This draft regulation could threaten that guarantee, on which millions of women rely for their birth control.”
what kind of bullshit is this? coming right on the heels of mccain’s condemnation of adoption by gay couples and longtime support of abortion restrictions, i cannot understand what the plan is! force me to get pregnant and add a child to the foster care system? because that seems like a stupid and offensive plan.
And don’t forget: under McCain, insurance companies wouldn’t pay for contraceptives. They would, however, pay for Viagra.
eatsleepdraw:High Fidelity quote.
Aintitcool News (via peterwknox)
All this hype makes me nervous that I won’t like it. But I don’t think that’s possible.
(via kaiticalamity)
I’m actually kind of hoping for nightmares, even though I’m not a child.
First World Progress (via mdumlao98)
Juxtaposition at its finest.
“In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of.
In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.” - Confucius
To this day, Jerry Kennedy only does laundry when it rains. For the first 54 years of his life, he lived without running water, and rainstorms were the only way he could collect enough water to wash his clothes. But Kennedy isn’t from some far-off rural outpost. He was born and raised in the Coal Run neighborhood of Zanesville, Ohio — a former coal-mining center of 25,000 in the eastern part of the state — just a few hundred feet from a municipal water line. Kennedy, now 58, is black. His neighbors, who did not have running water for more than 50 years, are also black. On July 10, the U.S. District Court of Ohio awarded them almost $10.9 million, ruling that they had been denied access to public water because of their race.
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Last Thursday’s verdict represents a sweeping acknowledgment of the Coal Run community’s suffering. “This case is a throwback to the type of discrimination everyone thinks is long gone,” says John P. Relman, a Washington civil rights attorney who represented the Coal Run residents. Relman calls the case a “landmark” because of the number of individual plaintiffs found to have suffered discrimination at the hands of their own government. “You lift up some rocks and find a couple of pretty ugly things,” he says. Kennedy, Hairston and the other plaintiffs will receive between $15,000 and $300,000 each in damages, depending on how long they had lived in the neighborhood. “This has been a long saga for lots of these people,” says G. Michael Payton, the OCRC’s executive director. “The humiliation, the feeling of being treated like second-class citizens — that shouldn’t happen today. We’re supposed to be past that.”
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