I have a lot more time for Ralph Nader than most people I know who’ve given money to the Barack Obama campaign. I don’t have any intention of voting for him, and I find a lot of what he’s about to be personally distasteful, but I’ve never begrudged him his right to run for President, [...]

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It’s Saturday, and everybody pretends that they don’t use the Internet on weekends for some reason, so I’ll bash out one of those posts about books and things, since nobody cares much about those. This is part of the ongoing project of recording all of the books I’ve read this year, so everyone can know [...]

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I just got really excited after checking my Wordpress stats, which tell me, among other things, which search terms lead people to dansolomon.com. This is how I discovered that, if you google rkelly pees on girl, my website is fifth(!) on the list. Which is awesome, and something anyone would be proud of. It was [...]

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This is just something I sent to McSweeney’s last week. I put it together for fun one night, because I’m a nerd in very many ways.
A Barack Obama Vice-Presidential Vetting Team Memo Debating The Relative Merits Of The Characters On ‘Lost’ In The Event Of Their Selection To Serve As The Candidate’s Running [...]

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An early morning screening for a drug study this morning put Sublime in my head while I slept, the way that happens sometimes. You can get haunted by songs, they chase you in your dreams- I spent two months when I was nineteen hiding from "Getchoo" by Weezer for a reason I can’t fathom. Today [...]

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I just spent the past half hour looking up potential alternatives to Amtrak in regard to passenger rail travel in the United States, which is hilarious and tragic. I knew that there were no legit alternatives (not counting GrandLuxe Rail Journeys, which, no shit, used to be called the american orient express and costs $8,000 [...]

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The FISA thing is more or less a done deal now; the we’ve been waiting to turn on obama crowd has turned, while the obama can do no wrong types are hoping against hope that, um, each leap of logic will be the leap… home.
It’s kind of sad, really, watching progressive-minded people I agree [...]

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Have y’all been following the FISA thing at all? It’s some interesting stuff. The backstory is that the Bush administration, in a typically executive power is ultimate power move, insisted that the telecom companies could- and, indeed, must, if they were to be patriots- allow them to spy on American citizens without oversight or warrants. [...]

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