A random sampling of what’s in my head.Tumblr (3.0; @jahn)http://jahn.tumblr.com/<embed flashvars="videoId=184086" src="http://www.thedailyshow.com/sitewide/video_player/view/default/swf.jhtml" quality="high" bgcolor="#cccccc" width="332" height="316" name="comedy_central_player" align="middle" allowscriptaccess="always" allownetworking="external" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed><br/><br/>Perfectly summarizes why I don’t have any sympathy for Sarah Palin.http://jahn.tumblr.com/post/48763526http://jahn.tumblr.com/post/48763526Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:13:11 -0500<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/l33ohfzgk9k"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/l33ohfzgk9k" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/>http://jahn.tumblr.com/post/47263489http://jahn.tumblr.com/post/47263489Sun, 24 Aug 2008 22:00:26 -0500<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="225" data="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1213401&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF"><param name="quality" value="best" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="scale" value="showAll" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1213401&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF" /><embed src="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1213401&server=www.vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="225"></embed></object><br/><br/>The Tailorhttp://jahn.tumblr.com/post/43442162http://jahn.tumblr.com/post/43442162Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:27:57 -0500<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vo1LPf9mnyU"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vo1LPf9mnyU" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/>Segment from This American Life about a Chicago hotdog stand that has suspended the normal rules of discourse.http://jahn.tumblr.com/post/43335479http://jahn.tumblr.com/post/43335479Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:34:25 -0500<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/DlR1NijJxV4"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/DlR1NijJxV4" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/>Awesome music videohttp://jahn.tumblr.com/post/42928046http://jahn.tumblr.com/post/42928046Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:35:37 -0500“We had to keep Fannie and Freddie in business, but we could have done this by putting conditions on the bailout. The government uses conditions all the time when it offers help to low and moderate income people. … It is only when it comes to giving money to extremely rich people that we find it impossible to impose conditions.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/07/13/bush_and_congress_want_to_rais/" target="_blank">Dean Baker</a></em>http://jahn.tumblr.com/post/42241930http://jahn.tumblr.com/post/42241930Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:10:43 -0500<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jmR0V6s3NKk"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jmR0V6s3NKk" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/>I met the Walrushttp://jahn.tumblr.com/post/41367699http://jahn.tumblr.com/post/41367699Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:08:26 -0500<a href="http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2008/07/conservatives-a.html">Conservatives And Jesse Helms</a>: Pretty much a Cliffs’ Notes for why I, and many others, continue to remain hostile to American Conservatism.http://jahn.tumblr.com/post/41239098http://jahn.tumblr.com/post/41239098Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:53:06 -0500<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/VO8b-zIKixM"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/VO8b-zIKixM" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/>Wonderfulhttp://jahn.tumblr.com/post/41037598http://jahn.tumblr.com/post/41037598Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:14:57 -0500<img src="http://media.tumblr.com/xnGLLRbABash1c5oTSY4Cbgm_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>A tempting viewhttp://jahn.tumblr.com/post/40233629http://jahn.tumblr.com/post/40233629Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:46:41 -0500<a href="http://gawker.com/tag/magazines/?i=5019689&t=barack-obama-more-popular-than-jesus-angelina-jolie">Barack Obama: More Popular Than Jesus, Angelina Jolie</a>http://jahn.tumblr.com/post/39998994http://jahn.tumblr.com/post/39998994Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:32:03 -0500<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/KJhx2y2mHls"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/KJhx2y2mHls" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/>Can’t tell if this is robbery or larceny. I guess I need to hit those MBE flashcards some more.http://jahn.tumblr.com/post/39998197http://jahn.tumblr.com/post/39998197Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:23:26 -0500<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/mTkp9UqVVHs"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/mTkp9UqVVHs" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/>I guess you’ll dohttp://jahn.tumblr.com/post/39437704http://jahn.tumblr.com/post/39437704Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:25:48 -0500<embed flashvars="videoId=173867" src="http://www.thedailyshow.com/sitewide/video_player/view/default/swf.jhtml" quality="high" bgcolor="#cccccc" width="332" height="316" name="comedy_central_player" align="middle" allowscriptaccess="always" allownetworking="external" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed><br/><br/>http://jahn.tumblr.com/post/38928692http://jahn.tumblr.com/post/38928692Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:40:30 -0500“It’s hard to believe right now, but it was only two years ago — in the spring of 2006, during the midterm elections — that many national Dems were still struggling to persuade themselves that they could win an argument against the GOP on national security. Obama, clearly, suffers from no such confidence deficit. Perhaps more important, he’s saying so. Loud and clear.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/06/obama_blasts_back_on_terror.php" target="_blank">Greg Sargent, TPM Election Central</a></em>http://jahn.tumblr.com/post/38824001http://jahn.tumblr.com/post/38824001Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:38:13 -0500<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/EOrG1r3S6ZA"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/EOrG1r3S6ZA" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><blockquote> <p>If every press conference were like a Tom Waits press conference we’d be a little more than halfway there. - <a href="http://twitter.com/jdickerson/statuses/836590509" target="_blank">John Dickerson</a></p> </blockquote>http://jahn.tumblr.com/post/38708383http://jahn.tumblr.com/post/38708383Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:13:48 -0500<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ldBhDmvWFXE"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ldBhDmvWFXE" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/>Fantastichttp://jahn.tumblr.com/post/37284496http://jahn.tumblr.com/post/37284496Thu, 05 Jun 2008 10:20:39 -0500“Tomorrow I will go to the African American cemetery outside of Chicago where my great-grandparents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, friends, neighbors, and my mother and father are buried. And I will tell them that they were right — that if we studied hard, worked hard, kept the faith, fought for justice, prayed, that this day would come. And it has.”<br/><br/> - <em>An African American reader of Andrew Sullivan’s blog <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/06/the-audacity-of.html" target="_blank">reacts</a> to Barack Obama clinching the Democratic nomination.</em>http://jahn.tumblr.com/post/37094535http://jahn.tumblr.com/post/37094535Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:52:35 -0500<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/_fMNIofUw2I"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_fMNIofUw2I" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/>Apropos for todayhttp://jahn.tumblr.com/post/37092257http://jahn.tumblr.com/post/37092257Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:26:47 -0500<a href="http://www.shirky.com/herecomeseverybody/2008/04/looking-for-the-mouse.html">Gin, Television, and Social Surplus</a>: <p>Fascinating article introducing the concept of social surpluses and arguing that we are currently dealing with one now.</p> <p>What an interesting time to be alive.</p>http://jahn.tumblr.com/post/36647568http://jahn.tumblr.com/post/36647568Fri, 30 May 2008 23:44:00 -0500