hey, check out this link (Romney & Big Bird):
'Ariel'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
The Syria-Turkey situation gives Obama a chance to show whatever foreign policy chops he's got and to walk on the big stage Romney doesn't have access to.
Plus, Obama can drop the nugget that he'd been in a NATO meeting the day of the last debate. Something like "I almost wish that the subjects of the debates had been switched. The day of the last debate, I spent the day meeting with NATO about the Syria-Turkey situation. I would have been able to work on the debate like my opponent did that day."
Library porn!
A tower of books is encased inside a glass pyramid at this public library that Dutch firm MVRDV have completed in Spijkenisse, the Netherlands (+ slideshow).
there are arguments that the debate was indeed significant in Kennedy v Nixon and Carter v Reagan.
Both of those took place before intensive debate prep was a standard part of the campaign process, though. (And in the case of Kennedy/Nixon, before people really understood how important it was to look good on television.)
I think these days, debates matter much less because there aren't going to be any surprises. Which is why I skipped last night's and watched Survivor instead.
Which is why I skipped last night's and watched Survivor instead.
We should have stuck to Mythbusters DVDs.
We should have stuck to Mythbusters DVDs.
Hey, what's one more fact-checker?
people in my office talking about how good the debate was. twitch twitch twitch
Library porn!
Not. To this librarian it doesn't look like people can actually use it as a library, and that the architects didn't care.
Grump.
To this librarian it doesn't look like people can actually use it as a library
Why not?
I didn't know there was a projected 4 year lifespan for library books. Is that true in the US as well?
To this librarian it doesn't look like people can actually use it as a library, and that the architects didn't care.
Funny -- I was going to say it looks like it's just for people, not to maintain the books.