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Ben Franklin’s Facebook Status

By ~LS~ On July 4, 2010 · Add Comment · In Fun Facts, Humor, Random Musings and tagged Tagged With: Al Franken, Books, Facebook, For Wordies, Humor, Silliness

Today’s Times Book Review section has a nicely written, humorous article on Ben Franklin and his Almanac: Ben Franklin is a Big Fat Idiot. The title made it mandatory reading for me given my utter adulation of Al Franken. In fact, the author, Joe Queenan, seems to have as much of a crush on Franklin as I have on Franken.

To his disappointment, Queenan discovered that the Almanac was not nearly as inspirational as he remembered it to be and so he laments the resultant bit of tarnish on Franklin’s halo. His claims that Franklin’s aphorisms failed “the acid test of validity and usefulness.” Take this one, for example: “Keep your mouth wet, feet dry.” Ok, I agree, teh stoopid.

The first thing that came to mind as I read the article was Facebook. Ben Franklin seems to have written down whatever [...]

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I heart Al Franken

By ~LS~ On June 30, 2010 · Add Comment · In Politics, Rhetoric and tagged Tagged With: Al Franken, Politics

I’m entirely jealous of the people of Minnesota on a daily basis. I have friended/liked Al Franken’s Facebook page and so I get posts about his work on several times a day. Jealous, jealous, jealous. He does so much good, progressive work, and he’s damned hard-nosed about it.

I get regular emails from Vitter, too, because I signed up for his newsletter for some stupid reason. They are nothing but grandstanding. I hit reply and respond with that statement on a regular basis. Vitter’s last email announcement praised his efforts to pressure “the administration” (by which I assume he means Obama) to send in the Fish and Wildlife folks and to increase the number of people assigned to the Louisiana gulf coast. Of course, in the mean time, Jindal is dicking around on calling in the National Guard.

Anyway, back to Franken. I have always liked Franken. I remember rolling [...]

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Confessions of a Facebook slacktivist

By ~LS~ On March 24, 2010 · Add Comment · In Politics, The Web and tagged Tagged With: Al Franken, Facebook, Politics, Slacktivism

I was playing on Facebook Facecrack tonight when I noticed how many groups, pages, and causes I’ve joined. The accumulated weight of my mouse clicks shocked me not only because of these groups’ sheer purposelessness (i.e., the various Farmville hate groups) but also because joining generally leads to nothing fruitful even when the groups are actually meaningful to me (i.e., Southern Poverty Law Center).

Now, I could justify my joining via the route that says Facebook allows us to construct ourselves in this very strange hybrid space of reality and virtual reality. So that means that I want all these groups/pages/causes in my profile. They are little hyperlinks to represent who I am and who I associate with in the hyper-reality that is Facebook. They actually do mean something — to me, to everyone who fans or joins because I’ve done it, to everyone whose fanned or joined before me [...]

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By ~LS~ On March 10, 2007 · 1 Comment · In Politics and tagged Tagged With: Al Franken, Books, Politics

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Speculative ramblings

By ~LS~ On January 31, 2007 · Add Comment · In The Quotidian (yadda yadda) and tagged Tagged With: Al Franken, Obligatory Links

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