Creepy coincidences.

Quoted: Original Release Date: September 11, 2001
Quoted: 18. NYC's Like a Graveyard

Quoted: Vampire Weekend - The Raconters - Tokyo Police Club - Justice - Spiritualized - TV On The Radio - Aesop Rock - Amon Tobin - Fleet Foxes - The Kills - CSS - Hot Chip - Tegan and Sara

Quoted: John McCain's choice to manage the GOP convention this summer is lobbyist Doug Goodyear, whose firm once represented Burma's repressive regime.

kind of an interesting read, linked from shane's fake steve jobs post.

Quoted: “If the typical Gore event was 20 people in a living room writing six-figure checks,” Gorenberg told me, “and the Kerry event was 2,000 people in a hotel ballroom writing four-figure checks, this year for Obama we have stadium rallies of 20,000 people who pay absolutely nothing, and then go home and contribute a few dollars online.”

Quoted: There is some irony in the fact that the architect of the most recent campaign-finance law also happens to be the Republican presidential nominee. John McCain likely views all that has happened with considerable trepidation. Contrary to the widespread assumption at the time the McCain-Feingold Act became law it has not hurt the Democratic Party

Quoted: May 12th: Report from Myanmar

1. No foreigners allowed in any of the disaster areas.
2. No cameras allowed in disaster areas.
3. Donation / charity groups are springing up all over the country and the world. Many are raising cash. Many are collecting items (clothing, etc). Some items are being delivered to disaster areas.
4. Some areas are still off-limits, as survivors are over-eager to get their share of the distribution that sometimes it can lead to looting. People have reported being stopped at knife-point and asked to give more food / items, in some areas.

Man...

Quoted: An international relief operation was being mobilized as the government raised its estimate of the death toll and reported 41,000 people still missing... The United States, which has led a drive for economic sanctions against Myanmar’s repressive regime, said it would also provide aid, but only if an American disaster team was invited into the country.

Poor guy has been in jail my entire life.

Quoted: A Dallas man who spent more than 27 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit was freed Tuesday, after being incarcerated longer than any other wrongfully convicted U.S. inmate cleared by DNA testing.

Quoted: He even stopped attending his parole hearings because gaining his release would have meant confessing to a crime he didn't do. "It says a lot about your character that you were more interested in the truth than your freedom," the judge told Woodard after making his ruling.

Sofa King We Todd It.

Quoted: It is great to see that we finally have some national unity on energy policy. Unfortunately, the unifying idea is so ridiculous, so unworthy of the people aspiring to lead our nation, it takes your breath away. Hillary Clinton has decided to line up with John McCain in pushing to suspend the federal excise tax on gasoline, 18.4 cents a gallon, for this summer’s travel season. This is not an energy policy. This is money laundering: we borrow money from China and ship it to Saudi Arabia and take a little cut for ourselves as it goes through our gas tanks. What a way to build our country.

Hm.

Quoted: Three detectives were found not guilty Friday on all charges in the shooting death of Sean Bell, who died in a hail of 50 police bullets outside a club in Jamaica, Queens, in November 2006. The verdict prompted calls for calm from the mayor, angry promises of protests by those speaking for the Bell family and expressions of relief by the detectives.