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Obama for America: Why I'm contributing.

barackobama:

clydesbetterhalf sent in this note yesterday:

I am making my first financial contribution to a political campaign tonight. This is a big decision for me, both as I am casting my faith in President Obama in a significant way, and also financially.

I was raised in what is considered to be the…

 May. Or may not. Have teared up again.

 

A few quick questions about Tumblr norms/formatting

1) Footnotes. Any good way to do it?
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3) Publicly posting to someone else’s wall (not reblogging something of theirs).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

ilovecharts: And there were political moments, too. In the heat of the first wave of the Occupy movement, I produced this chart, which addressed the inherent unfairness of the alphabet. I passed it out around New York City. Some people took it with a grain of salt; others, with an entire shaker.Salt, of course, was the source of one of the pieces I created for ILoveCharts that wasn’t exactly a chart. It’s in the book, so I won’t reprint it here. I will only remind you to go out and buy the book, so that you can experience the glory of the chart form in all its rational, irrational, sensible, senseless glory. If this is accurate, it’s incredibly cool. It seems pretty arbitrary, given the range of use of language*, that the alphabet would be exactly ordered by frequency.*That bredth of use being by I take this with an ocean’s-ful of salt. 

ilovecharts:

And there were political moments, too. In the heat of the first wave of the Occupy movement, I produced this chart, which addressed the inherent unfairness of the alphabet. I passed it out around New York City. Some people took it with a grain of salt; others, with an entire shaker.

Salt, of course, was the source of one of the pieces I created for ILoveCharts that wasn’t exactly a chart. It’s in the book, so I won’t reprint it here. I will only remind you to go out and buy the book, so that you can experience the glory of the chart form in all its rational, irrational, sensible, senseless glory.

If this is accurate, it’s incredibly cool. It seems pretty arbitrary, given the range of use of language*, that the alphabet would be exactly ordered by frequency.

*That bredth of use being by I take this with an ocean’s-ful of salt. 

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If a clock gets hungry it goes back four seconds. Once you’ve seen one shopping center you’ve seen the mall. Acupuncture is a jab well done. Jumping off a Paris bridge makes you in Seine. Bakers trade recipes on a knead to know basis. Your calendar’s days are numbered. I break into song if I can’t find the key. A dyslexic poet writes inverse.

  • If a clock gets hungry it goes back four seconds.
  • Once you’ve seen one shopping center you’ve seen the mall.
  • Acupuncture is a jab well done.
  • Jumping off a Paris bridge makes you in Seine.
  • Bakers trade recipes on a knead to know basis.
  • Your calendar’s days are numbered.
  • I break into song if I can’t find the key.
  • A dyslexic poet writes inverse.

(Source: thewhatever, via lesserjoke)

2-infinity-and-beyonce: I’m glad to see such brazenly progressive advertising. Go Ray-Ban! I’m pretty sure pretending that a long time ago you were progressive isn’t brazen. Show me this ad running 30, 40, or as it seems to imply 75 years ago, and I’ll be impressed. It isn’t brave now - it’s not brave now precisely because it was brave 30, 40 years ago and brave people actually came out publicly 30, 40 years ago. Ray Ban is just selling sunglasses - let’s not confuse that with social justice.

2-infinity-and-beyonce:

I’m glad to see such brazenly progressive advertising. Go Ray-Ban!

I’m pretty sure pretending that a long time ago you were progressive isn’t brazen. Show me this ad running 30, 40, or as it seems to imply 75 years ago, and I’ll be impressed. It isn’t brave now - it’s not brave now precisely because it was brave 30, 40 years ago and brave people actually came out publicly 30, 40 years ago. Ray Ban is just selling sunglasses - let’s not confuse that with social justice.

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