I nearly choked on coffee due to laughter when I got to the highlighted line: 
At the same time, the campaign cost itself a lot of credibility — certainly with the media, and to a lesser extent with voters — with some of their shenanigans of the past week, most notably Lipstickgate, “Thanks, but no thanks”, and the Obama kindergarten commercial. To use a crude metaphor, the McCain campaign may have blown its wad too early. Organic shifts in the momentum of the race can and probably will still occur, but …

RT mentioned in the comments section of the Stanford University post that MIT has been offering free online coursework for years. I wasn’t aware of that before last night so I’m going to do a post for anyone else that might have been in the dark. 
MITOpenCourseware has lecture videos (with notes), assignments and exams included for each course. No registration is required and you obviously receive no college credits for your work nor can you communicate with the professor. MIT offers courses (1800 in total) across a wide range of …

John McCain conducted an interview with the Spanish press in which he got confused as to who President (coffee first, post second) Prime Minister Zapatero (of Spain) is. The reporter was more than generous in providing McCain an explanation but McCain sticks to answers that make it clear that he thinks Zapatero is the ruler of a Latin American country that is our “enemy”. McCain’s frequent mentions of Latin America and Mexico while discussing Spain suggest he either doesn’t know where the latter is located geographically or he thinks all Spanish speaking …

I’d like to recommend following this studio both at the homepage and at the etsy shop. Photographer Irene assembles both winsome self-portraits and faux vintage polaroid snapshots and landscapes with an eye for delicate beauty and the sometimes blurry lens of recollection. “Faceless photography” has always been interesting to me, since it has the ability to both allow the viewer to project themselves into the shot but can also function to present “bodies without identity,” which has a more disturbing element to it. I’m always interested to …