If you are in San Francisco tonight and are desperate to see a shortened version of the performance-lecture, “The Tiger and the Philosopher” that Brandon Woolf and I delivered at the UCIRA State of the Arts Conference a few weekends ago, then come to the SF Hilton, Yosemite Room B for the annual meeting of […]

from the nytimes:
JIDDA, Saudi Arabia — Pirates captured a Saudi-owned supertanker loaded with more than $100 million worth of crude oil off the coast of Kenya, seizing the largest ship ever hijacked, United States Navy officials said Monday.

but remember, clowns are the new pirates:

from McSweeny’s by Evan Johnston:

In 1981, singer, actress Olivia Newton-John is performing in a musical video for her song “Physical.” Olivia Newton-John is in the gym, not sweating, wearing headband and leotard, doing aerobics. Why is she not sweating? To answer this question, we need to reverse it and ask: Why are we not wearing […]

in an interview with fox news, sarah palin assured fans:

“I’m like, OK, God, if there is an open door for me somewhere, this is what I always pray, I’m like, don’t let me miss the open door. Show me where the open door is… [I]f there is an open door in [20]12 or four […]

one of the nation’s most important thinkers weighs in on Obama’s election:

Uncritical Exuberance?
Judith Butler
Very few of us are immune to the exhilaration of this time. My
friends on the left write to me that they feel something akin to
“redemption” or that “the country has been returned to us” or that “we
finally have one of us […]

i guess it’s ironic (or rather telling) that on the night the US gets its first black president that california strips same sex couples of the right to get married.
old discriminating ways die hard.

the image on fox news (yes the same news network that referred to Michelle Obama as his “baby mama”) at 8:00 PM:

quote of the night- from a CNN GOP pundit:
“We only need 9 Supreme Court Justices to win this thing”