Monday, January 31, 2005

Talking Points Memo: GOP Social Security playbook

You may have already seen this, but if you haven't, TPM has posted a copy of the Republican "playbook" for selling their plan to take the "security" out of social security. An excerpt:

Keep the numbers small: Your audience doesn’t know how trillions and billions differ. They know these numbers are large, but not how large nor how many billions make a trillion. Boil numbers down to “your family’s share.” Also avoid percentages; your audience will try to calculate them in their head—no easy task while listening to a speech—and many will do it incorrectly.


(from p.6 -- but I thought the president was already on board with this....)

From page 35-40 almost every single word is capitalized. It's almost unreadable. Whoa. It stay like that till page 45.

There are two canned speeches at the end of the document. If you like, you can put on a nice suit and pretend that you, too, are a mouthpiece of the Bush administration. I'd recomment going out to a nearby public park and convincing the squirrels that we are facing a crisis.

The NFL Stadium Guide - Future NFL Stadiums

Dream of the future of football. Vikings stadium, when built, will be off the hook. It is a little thugly, though (see below).

Sunday, January 30, 2005

A Definition, and other hot new slang for oh-cinco

You might have heard about the hot new words for '05 from who let the blogs out, who introduced about a month or two ago the concept of getting "iced."

Here's another one:

thugly (adj.) [thuhg*lee] - 1) characterizing attire or attitude that, in trying too hard to be "down" with the "street," ends up just looking really silly or stupid; 2) of or relating to preposterous gangster rap fashion.

also, "thuggs" are dumb looking furred boots work by rappers.

Friday, January 28, 2005

we make money not art

a quick and dirty link. everything there is "holy smokes" level cool and fascinating....

Monday, January 24, 2005

MSNBC - Jan. 24 called worst day of the year

good morning. it's all downhill from here.

also, I am the guacamole king of university city, mo. pics later.

Tuesday, January 18, 2005

and misadventures of

Look: Are you paying attention to this? Click above, because in the years ahead it will be either a book or a legend and, well, these sorts of things don't happen in law school.

I am planning something new, which will be both amazing and funny and famous and will more or less run itself. But that is for the future.

Tonight I make sure that all facts which I reference in analysis paragraphs are introduced in precedent case discussion paragraphs.

And that is why, for now, my stories aren't quite as interesting.

This friday, I will compete in an Iron Chef guacamole battle. That's about as good as it gets for a while.

Wait for me then, with a touch of cilantro on your breath, and read well what I linked above.