Sweet Milk Calm Sea (Stedelijk Museum CS, 2005)
This all makes you realize something that has been a longtime thematic undercurrent of “The Colbert Report”: Mr. Colbert is a serious performer playing a silly character, while the media and political world are deeply silly but pretending to be serious.
Colbert has spent the past few months making every part of Justice Anthony Kennedy’s majority opinion in Citizen United look utterly ridiculous. And the court, which has no access to cameras (by its own choosing), no press arm, and no discernible comedic powers, has had to stand by and take it on the chin.
You made me swallow my gum. It’s going to be in my digestive tract for seven years!
Snow in Brabant. Just for the record, this is a colour photograph…
Germany, Greece, and the conspiracy of the technocrats
from Felix Salmon
Super Bowl preview for non-football fans
from kottke.org
Happiness Takes (A Little) Magic | The Wirecutter
Via Jason Kottke.
