Twitter Tracks: Heat Wave, Iraq, Football

Twitter tracks from August, 2010:

• 2010 08 01 - Texans discussing weather: Him: "It sure is hot today." Her: "It's only 99."
• 2010 08 02 - Headline: "Lindsay Lohan released from jail, goes to rehab." What, is that the name of some new trendy LA nightclub?
• 2010 08 03 - News coincidence: Brett Favre says he's quitting football for the 3rd time. Same day, Bristol Palin says she's quitting Levi for 2nd time.
• 2010 08 03 - You Can't Take It With You: Quirky 1938 Oscar-winning Frank Capra comedy. Tired of "It's a Wonderful Life?" Try this for the swellest time.
• 2010 08 04 - Headline: "Google Bails on Wave" http://goo.gl/q3o3. Sometimes, my procrastination in picking up a new tool saves me time in the end.
• 2010 08 04 - Cheering for today's Prop 8 ruling will be short. This SCOTUS won't uphold any ruling based on due process and equal protection clauses.
• 2010 08 05 - Mark's Stylebook: When a column isn't worth the paper to print it, feature it online as a "Web Exclusive"
• 2010 08 06 - Earmarks are "a symbol of a broken Washington." -- Pete Sessions. His own contribution to breaking DC? $50,965,500. http://goo.gl/KrEZ
• 2010 08 06 - I correctly answered 11 out of the 11 possible questions, on the Pew News IQ Quiz! http://pewrsr.ch/9U8jNF

After the jump, more Twitter tracks.

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• 2010 08 07 - Joe Keohane: "It's never been easier for people to be wrong and at the same time feel more certain that they're right." http://goo.gl/fUrA
• 2010 08 07 - The Informant: Fictionalization of ADM price-fixing case, and the oddest govt witness you'll ever encounter, a real-life Michael Scott.
• 2010 08 09 - Broken Embraces: Penélope Cruz. Love quadrangle with a lot of heartache. Movie within a movie. "People only fall down stairs in the movies."
• 2010 08 10 - One of history's ironies is that, with free elections, people often choose repressive regimes. Liberty is more popular in the abstract.
• 2010 08 11 - Mark's Stylebook: Be sure to check the current exchange rate before using the expression, "Dollars to donuts" http://goo.gl/fELx
• 2010 08 11 - Who does Stefani Carter (JD/MPP 2005, Harvard Law) think she's kidding, using phrases like "that dog just won't hunt here in Dallas"?
• 2010 08 12 - Headline: "Perry will skip editorial boards." No questioning by newspapers. No debates. No accountability. http://goo.gl/duSw
• 2010 08 12 - Irony: Man drives on public roads and uses public GPS satellites to scrawl "Read Ayn Rand" across USA with GPS ‘pen.’ http://goo.gl/V8fg
• 2010 08 13 - Mark's Stylebook: If you're running for Congress and think Obama is an "evil muslim communist USURPER", add that no malice was intended.
• 2010 08 13 - Headline: "D-FW consumer prices decline." Can you define deflation? You're going to hear a lot more of it in future. http://goo.gl/Tc2Q
• 2010 08 13 - > @UT_Dallas must not be a party school. Its "All-Night Madness" party ends at midnight. http://ht.ly/2plo3
• 2010 08 13 - Headline: "Senate candidate indicted on porn charge." Best line of story? "Greene is considered a long-shot candidate." http://goo.gl/r0xw
• 2010 08 13 - This just in... President Obama supports the Constitution, specifically freedom of religion. Wait... why is this news?!?
• 2010 08 14 - On the Road, by Jack Kerouac: Classic portrait of postwar America, irresponsible youth and the urge to travel. Dialog as American as Twain.
• 2010 08 14 - A Serious Man: Coen brothers black comedy. Man seeks advice from rabbi (and Grace Slick) when his life begins falling apart. I love quirky.
• 2010 08 15 - RT @budkennedy: "Column: Gohmert goes gaga over terror babies." http://t.co/1TOuAqR My favorite comment? "Barry is proof of this theory."
• 2010 08 15 - Ostrov (The Island): Russian movie recommended by Rod Dreher about sin, death, guilt and penance, but being Dreher, mostly guilt. See it.
• 2010 08 16 - Mayor Slagel and the car wash - a different version of the story: http://goo.gl/dmoa
• 2010 08 16 - Headline: "'Miracle' in Colombia crash: Woman dies, 130 live." Somehow, I doubt her family sees it that way.
• 2010 08 18 - Mark's Stylebook: When writing about the WAC and the Mountain West and which conference BYU and Utah end up in, pretend you care.
• 2010 08 18 - The Road: Haunting, post-apocalyptic movie about a man and his son. Deeply depressing and still heartening. See it and "carry the fire."
• 2010 08 18 - Headline: "Last US combat brigade pulls out of Iraq." Thanks to all troops for your service. To those who remain, our support continues.
• 2010 08 19 - Because lots of voters are dumber than a box of rocks??? RT @JeffreyWeissPD: " 'Obama is Muslim' -- Why more people believe it."
• 2010 08 20 - "Investors aren’t worried about deficits; they’re worried about stagnation and deflation." There's that word again. http://goo.gl/IeTh
• 2010 08 20 - What Just Happened: More to the point, why? Implausible showbiz comedy that's not really a comedy. De Niro phones it in ... with Bluetooth.
• 2010 08 21 - TIME Magazine cover story asks: "Is America Islamophobic?" What's with the question mark? http://goo.gl/xVDY
• 2010 08 22 - 105 in Richardson, tying a record set in 1980, a weather year I'd hoped never to hear about again.
• 2010 08 22 - Headline: "Indicted Collin County Clerk Subpoenas Bill Baumbach of the Collin County Observer" http://goo.gl/rcb5 Sounds like a SLAPP to me.
• 2010 08 23 - Headline: "Americans confused about healthcare reform: poll." Gee, I wonder where the confusion came from? Death panels, anyone?
• 2010 08 23 - Mark's Stylebook: Like Ticketmaster, if you want to better explain your annoying fees, do it on Sunday ... on Twitter. http://goo.gl/B80k
• 2010 08 23 - He probably wouldn't be divorced if his name were still "Eldrick." But then, he probably wouldn't have had a stunning Swedish wife, either.
• 2010 08 23 - Watch out for ongoing costs of any EDMS systems. And grill the vendor on the ability to escape the handcuffs and migrate to other systems.
• 2010 08 23 - Rod Dreher implies that his blogging is not "forward-looking, positive, constructive." In other words, same old Rod. http://goo.gl/zrmh
• 2010 08 23 - Headline: "Sammy Sosa says Cubs don't care about him." He should be thankful. Roger Clemens is wishing baseball didn't care about him.
• 2010 08 24 - "The blog that used to be here is now at http://www.pourmeanothersuburban.com/." Um. No, it isn't. Another one bites the dust.
• 2010 08 25 - Fight the secular government's War on Duanwu. Put the "woo" back in Duanwu. http://goo.gl/Qoyw
• 2010 08 25 - Headline: "Credit card debt drops to lowest level in 8 years." This is a debt-induced recession. Long-term, good news. Short-term, bad news.
• 2010 08 25 - Are we all just dopes? Congress approval rate: 20%. Incumbent re-election rate: 94%.
• 2010 08 25 - "[GOP Rep. John] Boehner is blaming the Democrats who are handing out umbrellas for the rain that's falling." -- John Dickerson
• 2010 08 25 - Burka on latest from Perry: "The level of political discourse in this campaign is about as bad as I have ever seen it." http://goo.gl/JRse
• 2010 08 26 - Mark's Stylebook: Go ahead, torment readers with words like this: "orthoepy: the study of correct pronunciation."
• 2010 08 26 - Headline: "Carol Kent gets endorsement from rival Stephani Carter's law firm." http://goo.gl/qBPI Ouch!
• 2010 08 26 - "Death from the Universe", Sunday, Discovery Channel. "A lot like Armageddon, but science instead of complete nonsense." http://goo.gl/mzCE
• 2010 08 26 - Headline: "Tiger Woods shoots 65..." Oh, the humanity. Woods is taking his divorce hard.
• 2010 08 27 - She's good, but doesn't stay in one place long. Conserve&Protect: comatose. 28Square: stillborn. PourMeAnotherSuburban: Moved. What's next?
• 2010 08 27 - Long live http://destinydelarosa.wordpress.com. Keep the suburban flowing.
• 2010 08 27 - It's almost impossible to prove a student-athlete moved for athletic reasons, but it's easy to prove the family didn't really move at all.
• 2010 08 27 - Final. Berkner17, South Garland 24. Overtime. #HSGT
• 2010 08 28 - Doesn't Glenn Beck know that the Lincoln Memorial is sacred ground? Why can't he move his rally a few blocks away? Or to Murfreesboro, TN?
• 2010 08 28 - Where the Wild Things Are: Get inside head of a boy with social problems and a vivid imagination. See it. Warning: there's not much there.
• 2010 08 30 - The End of the Free Market, by Ian Bremmer: State capitalism on the rise. Multinational corporations challenged. More facts than insights.
• 2010 08 31 - Diplomacy, by Henry Kissinger (1994): 300 yrs of history taught by master of Realpolitik. So smart, you wonder how he screwed up so badly.
• 2010 08 31 - "A local blogger shows his ignorance of how tax rate increases are reported under State rules." http://goo.gl/qz1J Ouch!
• 2010 08 31 - Mike Wise's suspension will be lifted in lieu of lifetime assignment to Redskins/Wizards/Nationals beat, according to Tahoe casino source.