Today's Moment of Happiness: Presidential Edition!

Putting aside my guilty pleasures for a day to bring you a three Moments of Happiness from a day filled with so much joy and hope.



YO-YO MA, ITZHAK PERLMAN, ANTHONY McGILL, GABRIELA MONTERO PERFORM "AIR & SIMPLE GIFTS" ARRANGED BY JOHN WILLIAMS.



YES WE DID!!



RICK WARREN CAN SUCK IT.

We dodged a bullet, folks.

Is anybody else breathing a sigh of relief?

Gina Loring: Somewhere there is a poem

Awesome, awesome, awesome!

Mr. Savage Goes to South Carolina

Speaking of The Slog, our very own Dan Savage, editor of The Stranger and it's nationally syndicated sex columnist, went on the road before the South Carolina Caucus and reported the story on Real Time with Bill Maher.

Tissues required

This was posted this morning The Strangers Slog. I'm not kidding when I say break out the tissues, you will need them.

Shock Doctrine, Pt. 2

I so want to read this book.

The Shock Doctrine

While driving around taking care of a bunch of errands last night, I heard snippets of a talk by Naomi Kline on KUOW about her new book "The Shock Doctrine" in which she outlines the history and thesis behind the term "shock doctrine" and it's relationship to disaster capitalism. Going in and out of stores it wasn't possible to hear the entire segment but what I did catch was both distressing and intriguing.

The above short film is the result of the collaboration between Naomi and Alfonso Cuaron, director of such films as "Children of Men" and "Y tu mama tambien".

Bill Moyers: Who decides what's news?

One more for the road.

Thanks to Crooks and Liars for links.

Olbermann, water boards and I still hate GWBush.

It's been far too long since I've posted here, but I can see a light at the end of the tunnel when I'll have more time to do more of the things I love. In the mean time, here's something that made me very happy today. Not that I have great hopes for the future of this country, but at least I still have hope.