Depending on what the codec/resolution was of the video he uploaded (and how long it was), YouTube can take a good long while to process before it'll show up on the site.

Second picture down KILLED me.

PUPPY.

After stressing and fretting over a report that was due today, I have been told that the person won't be ready for the report until the end of the month. Head explodes!

Christopher Buckley resigned from the National Review.

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Reader backlash over Christopher Buckley's blogged endorsement of Obama ended up convincing the political novelist to leave the magazine that his father, William F. Buckley, founded.

Christopher Buckley resigned from the National Review.

Wow. Seriously. Wow.

If anyone missed it last night, check out Rachel Maddow's smackdown of David Frum when he tries to attack her show. He had no idea of what he was getting himself into!

That was awesome! You can tell by his reaction that he just wasn't expecting his accusation against Rachel's show to be so vigorously challenged. Maybe if more hosts acted like Rachel the political discourse in this country would be better.

Plus the clip makes me want to gay-marry Rachel Maddow even more.

Some developers have been renovating the old Carson Pirie Scott building in the Loop, and they've discovered Louis Sullivan-designed facades on two post-Fire buildings on Wabash. There's some interesting photos, including a closeup of beautiful detail in photo #6.

Thanks for the table link, Hec. That's gorgeous.

My car is in the shop, and so far Geico has made it so I don't have to think much. Downside is I'm driving a Toyota Yaris, upside is it's not out of my pocket.

I'm just going to sulk and apply for jobs and watch lots of TV.

Christopher Buckley, in an exclusive for The Daily Beast, explains why he left The National Review, the magazine his father founded.

I had gone out of my way in my Beast endorsement to say that I was not doing it in the pages of National Review, where I write the back-page column, because of the experience of my colleague, the lovely Kathleen Parker. Kathleen had written in NRO that she felt Sarah Palin was an embarrassment. (Hardly an alarmist view.) This brought 12,000 livid emails, among them a real charmer suggesting that Kathleen’s mother ought to have aborted her and tossed the fetus into a dumpster. I didn’t want to put NR in an awkward position.

Since my Obama endorsement, Kathleen and I have become BFFs and now trade incoming hate-mails. No one has yet suggested my dear old Mum should have aborted me, but it’s pretty darned angry out there in Right Wing Land. One editor at National Review—a friend of 30 years—emailed me that he thought my opinions “cretinous.” One thoughtful correspondent, who feels that I have “betrayed”—the b-word has been much used in all this—my father and the conservative movement generally, said he plans to devote the rest of his life to getting people to cancel their subscriptions to National Review. But there was one bright spot: To those who wrote me to demand, “Cancel my subscription,” I was able to quote the title of my father’s last book, a delicious compendium of his NR “Notes and Asides”: Cancel Your Own Goddam Subscription.

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My point, simply, is that William F. Buckley held to rigorous standards, and if those were met by members of the other side rather than by his own camp, he said as much. My father was also unpredictable, which tends to keep things fresh and lively and on-their-feet. He came out for legalization of drugs once he decided that the war on drugs was largely counterproductive. Hardly a conservative position. Finally, and hardly least, he was fun. God, he was fun. He liked to mix it up.

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While I regret this development, I am not in mourning, for I no longer have any clear idea what, exactly, the modern conservative movement stands for. Eight years of “conservative” government has brought us a doubled national debt, ruinous expansion of entitlement programs, bridges to nowhere, poster boy Jack Abramoff and an ill-premised, ill-waged war conducted by politicians of breathtaking arrogance. As a sideshow, it brought us a truly obscene attempt at federal intervention in the Terry Schiavo case.

So, to paraphrase a real conservative, Ronald Reagan: I haven’t left the Republican Party. It left me.

But the whole thing is good....

Eight years of “conservative” government has brought us a doubled national debt, ruinous expansion of entitlement programs, bridges to nowhere, poster boy Jack Abramoff and an ill-premised, ill-waged war conducted by politicians of breathtaking arrogance.

THANK you!

I just had a hectic hour or so that I think (hope) cleared up my fuckup from earlier with the federal government. Fingers crossed!!