May 2011
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active-ism
I don’t feel like I’m in a rut, exactly, but I feel like I’m at one of those inflection points where if I’m going to accomplish any of the things I want to do then I need to just get going on them, or else life is just going to march right along and I’ll feel like I’ve missed something. It’s been over a year and a half since I moved now, and a lot of times...
Top 10 Bin Laden Porn Titles
After seeing the news that supposed religious zealot Osama Bin Laden evidently was a gigantic hypocrite who kept a stash of porno in his hideout, I figured it would be fun to think up some possible OBL-related titles. Feel free to add some if you want to play along:
Tora Whora Hindu Kush Donkey Riders V Blow Me to Paradise Suicide Gangbang Explosion Improvised Ecstasy Device Hummer Patrol...
February 2011
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test
January 2011
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December 2010
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I have a lot of respect for Mark Twain, but it takes a rather healthy self-regard to think people will care about your autobiography 100 years in the future.
CFB Top 25
I haven’t been posting these as regularly as I’d like, but here’s my top 25 for this week:
1. Oregon 12-0 2. Stanford 11-1 3. Wisconsin 11-1 4. TCU 12-0 5. Auburn 12-0 6. Ohio State 11-1 7. Arkansas 10-2 8. Oklahoma 10-2 9. Boise State 11-1 10. Nevada 11-1 11. Missouri 10-2 12. Alabama 9-3 13. LSU 10-2 14. Michigan State 11-1 15. Oklahoma State 10-2 ...
November 2010
3 posts
GO BEARS!!! BEAT THE CARDINAL
Save the words! →
This is no idle blateration. The sad plight of these lonely, underutilized words will tudiculate your heart. Adopt one today, and you’ll soon be able to phlyarologize with the best of them!
My College Football Top 25
I’ve been putting together a Top 25 ballot for CGB the past few weeks, so I might as well be posting it here too:
1. Oregon 2. TCU 3. Auburn 4. Boise State 5. Stanfurd 6. Wisconsin 7. Ohio State 8. Oklahoma State 9. LSU 10. Michigan State 11. Nebraska 12. Iowa 13. Arkansas 14. Alabama 15. Utah 16. Mississippi State 17. Virginia Tech 18. Nevada 19. Arizona 20. Oklahoma ...
October 2010
2 posts
William McDonough, architect and progenitor of the...
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“isolated and brainless in a blazing world”
– Philip Roth
July 2009
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June 2009
5 posts
Glenn Greenwald pwns NPR on its torture euphemisms →
Now, the criticisms he levels at NPR can be applied to just about all major news outlets. It pisses me off *whenever* I hear phrases like “harsh interrogation techniques” applied to what is very clearly torture, but it bugs me even more when I hear them used by NPR, and for that matter the NYT, which prides itself as “the newspaper of record”. By not using the word...
fuck the supreme court
seriously…. thomas, scalia, alito, roberts, and kennedy can’t retire soon enough. this week, they decided that prisoners have no right to undergo DNA testing that might establish their innocence, even if they pay for it themselves. so what if they might be innocent? they were convicted already, so who needs new evidence, right? no matter that over 200 wrongfully convicted people have...
Iran
It looks like things are coming to a head in Iran. I’ve been glued to the news coming out of there for the entire week. I think the Iranian uprising could be one of the most important events of the year, something of world-historical significance. If you haven’t been following along, here’s a bit of a recap:
1) They held a presidential election last Friday. Of the four...
May 2009
13 posts
“…the Soviet State Bank was replaced by fifteen republic Central Banks, but...”
– a passage describing the monetary insanity taking place in the immediate post-soviet era, from armageddon averted by stephen kotkin, which i’m currently reading.
more on 1 space vs. 2 spaces
so, laura [musikitty on twitter], who apparently is a lightning-quick typist thanks to the surprisingly effective tutelage of a fictional italian plumber, counts herself among the generation-y adherents of the 2-space rule. while it’s natural that you would prefer to do it the way you were taught, whichever way that happens to be, after doing some digging around on the web it seems pretty...
California voters exercise their power -- and... →
this is more or less dead on.
so is this from the economist a few days ago.
between the insane ballot box budgeting that has shown little recognition of past obligations and no regard for future debt, and the absolute ideological rigidity and extremism of our legislators due to safe districts, you have a more or less complete breakdown in governance. so… who else thinks it’s time for...
generational
in conversation with a (40 year old) co-worker today, he asked me that when typing something up (a report, email, memo, or whatever), upon finishing a sentence and started the next, did i put one space or two before the word that starts the next sentence? i told him that i knew our boss (also around her late 30s/early 40s) preferred two spaces between sentences in reports, but that if he was...
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FJM might be dead, but Joe Posnanski does a pretty... →
[link from michaelpop]
i haven’t done this reblogging thing yet, but i figured this was worth passing along. i also miss FJM greatly and think steve phillips is a blithering idiot, so i’m glad to see someone is out there doing the important fisking work that is so desperately needed these days. also, i knew beltran had been very good for quite a while, but i didn’t realize just...
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Watchthis video brings me much joy. make sure you get to the part that starts around 1:30. everyone likes shaq, right? i mean, how can you not.
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m. gladwell and b. simmons shoot the shit. →
i know a lot of people like to slag on gladwell as “captain obvious”, or for being someone who tells good stories but doesn’t really present much in the way of evidence or intellectual rigor to support his theories. as someone who has flipped through a couple of his books, i think those criticisms frankly do hold some water. he’s entertaining and thought-provoking to some...
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