People were writing lengthy breakdowns about Barack Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize starting about nine seconds after Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. Between this and Kanye West and Roman Polanski and David Letterman I’m pretty sure I am over the internet, at least as far as personal essays go. (That’s why, incidentally, I haven’t actually presented my opinions about any of them. Though I’m tempted to, of course.)
A California couple lost their teenaged daughter to liver cancer after their insurance company denied her a liver replacement. The angered mother went to insurance company headquarters to ask for an apology, and was literally given the finger.
Swedish group Maskinen have a new video out featuring Marina Gasolina, formerly of Bonde do Role.
A lesbian single mother’s response to gay pride. Despite the fact that I have few inhibitions I pretty much agree with everything she says.
I have no patience for horrorcore as a musical style, but I think it’s pretty shitty that the media’s angling some grizzly murders in Virginia as representative of the genre.
[photo via Flickr; this user--who goes by Morgan--photographs small town high school football games in Montana and Wyoming. As with most Flickr albums, I wish there were only about a third of the photos, because some really great images get lost in a sea of so-so ones. But it's definitely worth browsing. He's got a blog, too. These are some spectators at a game in Montana.]
