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class="entry-content"> <p>Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo beautifully captures why every progressive in the south thinks the idea of Haley Barbour running for national office is a hilarious joke:</p> <blockquote><p>You have to be deeply, securely, and <em>no doubt permanently</em> encased in the DC cocoon ever to have thought that Haley Barbour was a serious presidential candidate. <em>Really</em>, people. Any number of things would have to change to make Barbour a remotely credible presidential candidate — starting with erasing the image of Boss Hogg from the cultural memory of every American over the age of 30.</p></blockquote> <p><em><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101230201311/http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2010/12/can_haley_recover.php">Can Haley Recover? | Talking Points Memo</a></em></p> <div id="geo-post-1587" class="geo geo-post" style="display: none"> <span class="latitude">30.882963</span> <span class="longitude">-87.773047</span> </div> </div> <div class="entry-utility"> <span class="comments-link"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101230201311/http://mattnt.com/2010/12/28/boss-hogg-and-the-gop/#respond" title="Comment on Boss Hogg and the GOP">Leave a comment</a></span> </div> </div> <div id="post-1515" class="post-1515 post type-post status-publish format-default hentry"> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101230201311/http://mattnt.com/2010/11/28/paw-eye-coordination/" title="Permalink to Paw-Eye Coordination" rel="bookmark">Paw-Eye Coordination</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author">Posted on</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101230201311/http://mattnt.com/2010/11/28/paw-eye-coordination/" title="11:29 am" rel="bookmark"><span class="entry-date">November 28, 2010</span></a> <span class="meta-sep">by</span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101230201311/http://mattnt.com/author/iammattthomas/" title="View all posts by Matt Thomas">Matt Thomas</a></span> </div> <div class="entry-content"> <div id="x-video-0" class="video-player"> <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="640" height="360" id="video0" standby="Loading video..."> <param name="movie" value="http://s0.videopress.com/player.swf?v=1.02"/> <param name="wmode" value="transparent"/><param name="seamlesstabbing" value="true"/><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"/><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"/><param name="overstretch" value="true"/> <param name="flashvars" value="guid=3eMZ2Os3&javascriptid=video0"/>  <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="https://web.archive.org/web/20101230201311im_/http://s0.videopress.com/player.swf?v=1.02" width="640" height="360" standby="Loading video..."> <param name="wmode" value="transparent"/><param name="seamlesstabbing" value="true"/><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"/><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"/><param name="overstretch" value="true"/> <param name="flashvars" value="guid=3eMZ2Os3&javascriptid=video0"/>  <img alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101230201311im_/http://videos.videopress.com/3eMZ2Os3/20101128-103405_std.original.jpg" width="640" height="360"/><p class="robots-nocontent">This movie requires <a rel="nofollow" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101230201311/http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer">Adobe Flash</a> for playback.</p>  </object>  </object> </div> <p>Trying out video uploading in WordPress for iOS for the first time. Pretty cool.</p> <div id="geo-post-1515" class="geo geo-post" style="display: none"> <span class="latitude">30.882963</span> <span class="longitude">-87.773047</span> </div> </div> <div class="entry-utility"> <span class="comments-link"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101230201311/http://mattnt.com/2010/11/28/paw-eye-coordination/#respond" title="Comment on Paw-Eye Coordination">Leave a comment</a></span> </div> </div> <div id="post-1505" class="post-1505 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-general"> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101230201311/http://mattnt.com/2010/10/27/a-hero-for-every-site-via-vaultpress-blog/" title="Permalink to A Hero for Every Site (via VaultPress Blog)" rel="bookmark">A Hero for Every Site (via VaultPress Blog)</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author">Posted on</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101230201311/http://mattnt.com/2010/10/27/a-hero-for-every-site-via-vaultpress-blog/" title="5:05 pm" rel="bookmark"><span class="entry-date">October 27, 2010</span></a> <span class="meta-sep">by</span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101230201311/http://mattnt.com/author/iammattthomas/" title="View all posts by Matt Thomas">Matt Thomas</a></span> </div> <div class="entry-content"> <p>Yep, I’m reblogging my own post from the VaultPress blog. :) I really enjoyed working with <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101230201311/http://ghostco.org/">Matthew Woodson</a> on the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101230201311/http://vaultpress.com/hero/">new illustration</a> he did for us. We’ll be continuing to work together over the next few months, as we lead up to (and celebrate) the public release of VaultPress.</p> <p>To make room for the hot new art, I busted open the design of the site, getting rid of the borders and background colors, bumping the text up to Twenty-Ten-huge levels, and adding a ton of subtle touches for the Webkit, Opera, and Firefox 4 users to appreciate. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101230201311/http://typekit.com/">Typekit</a> serves up <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101230201311/http://www.josbuivenga.demon.nl/calluna.html">Calluna</a> for headlines and body copy, the typeface we liked so much we used it right in the logo. It’s been lots of fun concentrating on VaultPress over the past few months, and the stuff that’s yet to come is even cooler.</p> <blockquote cite="http://blog.vaultpress.com/?p=538" style="overflow:hidden;"><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101230201311/http://blog.vaultpress.com/?p=538" title="VaultPress Blog"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101230201311im_/http://vaultpress.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/hero-tease.jpg?w=158&h=100&h=100" width="158" height="100" alt="A Hero for Every Site" class="align-left thumbnail alignleft left" style="max-width:100%;"/></a> Yesterday, we began rolling out a fresh round of advertising, and we wanted to take just a minute to talk about the story behind it (we are bloggers, after all). Deciding how to advertise a totally new product is a tall order. When your job is providing security and peace of mind, there's two pretty obvious marketing strategies: fear or empowerment. You can scare your users into using your product, or you can make using your product feeling empow … <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101230201311/http://blog.vaultpress.com/?p=538" title="VaultPress Blog">Read More</a></p> </blockquote> <p>via <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101230201311/http://blog.vaultpress.com/?p=538" title="VaultPress Blog">VaultPress Blog</a></p> </div> <div class="entry-utility"> <span class="cat-links"> <span class="entry-utility-prep entry-utility-prep-cat-links">Posted in</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101230201311/http://en.wordpress.com/tag/general/" title="View all posts in General" rel="category tag">General</a> </span> <span class="meta-sep">|</span> <span class="comments-link"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101230201311/http://mattnt.com/2010/10/27/a-hero-for-every-site-via-vaultpress-blog/#comments" title="Comment on A Hero for Every Site (via VaultPress Blog)">1 Comment</a></span> </div> </div> <div id="post-1482" class="post-1482 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-general tag-coming-out tag-hrc tag-human-rights-campaign tag-it-gets-better tag-lgbt tag-national-coming-out-day"> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101230201311/http://mattnt.com/2010/10/11/it-gets-better/" title="Permalink to It Gets Better" rel="bookmark">It Gets Better</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author">Posted on</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101230201311/http://mattnt.com/2010/10/11/it-gets-better/" title="6:37 pm" rel="bookmark"><span class="entry-date">October 11, 2010</span></a> <span class="meta-sep">by</span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101230201311/http://mattnt.com/author/iammattthomas/" title="View all posts by Matt Thomas">Matt Thomas</a></span> </div> <div class="entry-content"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101230201311/http://mattnt.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/logo_ncod_lg.png"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1483" title="Logo_ncod_lg" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101230201311im_/http://mattnt.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/logo_ncod_lg.png?w=200&h=226" alt="" width="200" height="226"/></a> Today is <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101230201311/http://www.hrc.org/ncod/">National Coming Out Day</a>, an event founded in 1988 to bring attention to LGBT issues and to foster a sense of community among gay people by celebrating the act of coming out. In the years since then, we’ve made incredible progress. While the pace may sometimes seem unbearably slow, the world is a much better place to be gay than it was in 1988, the year Coming Out Day was founded, and the year I realized that I was gay.</p> <p>But despite the progress, growing up gay is still an incredibly difficult thing to do. The feelings of isolation and persecution attached to being a gay kid are pretty terrible, and no one delivers the abuse better than one’s peers. Even in this more progressive new century, gay kids are being bullied to the point of taking their own lives, in heartbreaking numbers. And so<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101230201311/http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/SavageLove"> Dan Savage</a> did something about it: he started the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101230201311/http://itgetsbetterproject.com/">It Gets Better Project</a>, a place for gay people to share their stories and to say what we wish we could have said to the gay kids who have ended their lives: that it <em>does</em> get better. Every person, gay or straight, holds the potential for a happy life.</p> <blockquote><p>We are the kids who have been bullied for being gay, lesbian, bi or trans. We pledge to stay open and strong. We are also the friends, family members, teachers, mentors, and allies of anyone who’s ever felt like they didn’t fit in, gay or straight. We pledge to talk to the kids in our lives to put an end to the hate, violence, and tragedy — and to offer advice on coping, strategies to make it better, and to remind kids that It Gets Better.</p></blockquote> <p>I’m an extremely private person, and so while I hate talking about personal life, and <em>really</em> hate talking on camera, I’ve added my voice to the site. My life is living proof that no matter how terrifying growing up gay can be, it does get better; that life is so much more than the adversity you might face growing up. 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