Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Heavyweights



This would be a salty scrap until one of them mentions the Ryan budget.

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Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Because We Deserve It



Mad Men returns March 25th. Get out your rocks glasses.

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Sunday, March 18, 2012

Cyber Civil Rights

My civil procedure professor Danielle Citron (who has fantastic taste in music) is writing a book about online harassment and cyber civil rights (which I believe is tentatively entitled "Hate 2.0," set for an April 2013 release). To that end, I will be serving as one of her research assistants this summer. Here she discusses the recent verdict in the Tyler Clementi online harassment case in New Jersey on All Things Considered.

Update: More insight on this case from Professor Citron.



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Monday, March 12, 2012

Call Your Girlfriend



As my friend Sarah said, "If Katy Perry wrote this song, she'd make a winky video in which she desperately exclaims 'Look at how cute and sexy I am!' Instead, Robyn free-style danced in an abandoned warehouse sporting a backwards goat hair sweater and a bowl cut."

All true, but this song didn't hit full dopeness status until these awesome chics--also from Sweden--did this:



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Saturday, March 10, 2012

Compared To What



Some awesome shit my awesome law prof tells me to listen to and I do.

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Friday, March 9, 2012

Fresh Guacamole

The first time I watched this, it inexplicably made me feel squishy and weird. And then I watched it again. And again.



h/t Jessi Gordon

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Monday, March 5, 2012

The Most Astounding Fact Of The Universe

I particularly love how NDT (my favorite astrophysicist, and yes I have a favorite astrophysicist) answered this question because I believe I would have offered the same, though not nearly as eloquently and poignantly as he does. To be reminded of this knowledge is elevating: your origins are stellar.



Soundtrack provided by Cinematic Orchestra, performing "To Build A Home."

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Sunday, March 4, 2012

You Can Play

Brian Burke, general manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs, tragically lost his son Brendan in a car accident in February of 2010, mere months after Brendan had revealed a deeply-held secret to his father: he was gay. In a sport in which machismo and ruggedness define its players and "casual homophobia" is the operative norm in locker rooms, Brendan had struggled mightily with his decision to go public with his sexual orientation. But his courage to finally do so gave hope to so many other LGBT athletes across the world of sports who fear having their skill and ability undermined by arcane and bigoted perceptions of "softness."

When Brendan came out to his father, one of the most brilliant and respected minds in the game and a man who throughout his career was the epitome of Hockey Tough Guy, he was afraid of a lot of things, but mostly that his father would be disappointed in him. Instead, Brian Burke couldn't have been prouder of his son. To honor Brendan's legacy and to help foster an environment in hockey in which LGBT players do not feel prejudiced, unwelcome, disrespected, or openly reviled, Brian Burke and Brendan's brother Patrick have started the You Can Play project with the assistance of many high-profile NHLers like Rick Nash, Claude Giroux, and Henrik Lundqvist to name a few. It's message is simple and resonates; if you can play, you can play, and nothing else matters:



h/t Puck Daddy.

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