THIS MODERN WORLD

From a reader:

Hi Mr. Tomorrow,

I bought your book, mostly just to support you though because I thought I could read all your work on line for free. But after oh, 2 pages, I realized there was a *lot* of your work I hadn’t seen. And your book runs faster than a web page (even on a screamingly fast system like mine).

Please consider pointing out that buying your book is quite a bit different from, say, printing out out Salon.com pages: it’s far better. I would have missed out on that if I wasn’t so susceptible to online pleas from my favourite bloggers.

Duly noted.

A day after making Joseph Wurzelbacher famous, referencing him in the debate almost two dozen times as someone who would pay higher taxes under Barack Obama, McCain learned the fine print Thursday on the plumber’s not-so-tidy personal story: He owes back taxes. He is not a licensed plumber. And it turns out that Wurzelbacher makes less than $250,000 a year, which means he would receive a tax cut if Obama were elected president.

The rest.

“And to somehow intimate that the overwhelming majority of those people, with rare exception, are somehow not good Americans or are motivated by anything but the most patriotic motives is insulting. And I won’t accept that insult,” Mr. McCain added.

More. And via the Sadlynauts, a sampling of those “rare exceptions”:

As noted in the announcements space above, I’ve got a couple of rare posters up for auction on eBay. According to my user history, I haven’t put anything up in more than a year, so don’t miss out.

An animated piece on health care, from 2000 but still sadly relevant. (Note: there’s some pixel distortion in the first few seconds, but it clears up.)

And don’t miss the rise and fall of eBlinky — mentioned this one before but didn’t embed the video …