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It’s taken 8 weeks and two movies unwatched from Netflix, but the first post-Lio movie we got to watch was No Country for Old Men, which was outstanding. There is no shortage of good things to say about it, but I feel like Barry Corbin deserves an accolade or two for the few minutes he was a part of it. I thought he did an amazing job.

Fact: Barry Corbin has been inducted into the National Cowboy Hall Of Fame in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Another fact: For no good reason whatsoever, while doing yardwork last weekend, Barry Corbin and his work on Northern Exposure entered my head and kept me occupied for the next two hours. Seeing him in No Country was a huge surprise.

The $40 coupon from the government arrived yesterday. I’m going to pick up the digital-to-analog converter box today.

That is all.

UPDATE: My God. It’s full of stars.

This article has so many good points expressed well, good ideas made accessible, you really should take 10 or 15 minutes and read it:

The “cheap-energy mind,” as Wendell Berry called it, is the mind that asks, “Why bother?” because it is helpless to imagine — much less attempt — a different sort of life, one less divided, less reliant. Since the cheap-energy mind translates everything into money, its proxy, it prefers to put its faith in market-based solutions — carbon taxes and pollution-trading schemes. If we could just get the incentives right, it believes, the economy will properly value everything that matters and nudge our self-interest down the proper channels. The best we can hope for is a greener version of the old invisible hand. Visible hands it has no use for.

Michael Pollan: Why Bother?

Would be The Bugle. Also in iTunes. Like The Daily Show turned to 11 by Sir Nigel.

Almost 10 minutes long, but you've got to watch from 7:50 on. "If the job goes well, they'll carve your head into the side of a @#$@#$@ mountain." It's not right to give the "elitist" argument (if you want to call it that) any leg to stand on; to make it is just to have a knee-jerk reaction to a politically charged buzzword. Give it and Obama's remarks just a smidge of thought and you'll realize A) he's absolutely in the right to make such a statement and B) Stewart's dead on in this clip.

If you think you've seen that face before, there's a good chance you have.

Reminds me of another pic that came with some version of MS Office with a black, college-age girl, holding a pencil and looking thoughtfully into the camera that I've seen in a couple of places, including a billboard along I-35 in OKC.

I never saw this level of commitment in the English department.

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Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton, author, and professor injects some reality and sanity into this bullshit brouhaha over Obama’s “bitter” remark:

We’re heading into the worst economic crisis in a half century or more. Many of the Americans who have been getting nowhere for decades are in even deeper trouble. Large numbers of people in Pennsylvania and across the nation are losing their homes and losing their jobs, and the situation is likely to grow worse. Consumers are at the end of their ropes, fuel and food costs are skyrocketing, they can’t go deeper into debt, they can’t pay their bills. They aren’t buying, which means every business from the auto industry to housing to even giant GE is hurting. Which means they’ll begin laying off more people, and as they do, we will experience an even more dangerous downward spiral.

Bitter? You ain’t seen nothing yet.

I had no idea he had a blog. Fantastic. His commentaries on Marketplace are well worth the time, too.

If you have a Mac, you owe it to yourself to get 1Password. It'll change your life. It's just an amazing password manager, and today it's on sale because one of its developers is celebrating his birthday. I think you can get it for about $20 -- a bargain.

1Password's on sale

This is beautiful.