February 2012
Carnival creeps me the fuck out.
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The first sip is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy.
"Oh, so you're saying we shouldn't burn Qurans if... →
Religious materials — including Qurans that were burned at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan, sparking Afghan protests — were removed from the library of a detainee center “because of extremist inscriptions” on them, a military official said Tuesday.
There was “an appearance that these documents were being used to facilitate extremist communications,” a military...
WatchLinsanity Postgame
People seem to think that being alone for four months means you must be bored, that walking a mile one way to a grocery store is crazy, that reading a book a day is taxing, that cooking on a hot plate is less healthful, that fasting is harmful, that taking cold showers is masochistic, that going barefoot is dangerous, that living without heat and air conditioning is preposterous, that typing on...
Against TED →
When did TED lose its edge? When did TED stop trying to collect smart people and instead collect people trying to be smart?
Started as a one-off conference nearly 30 years ago, the TED (“Technology, Entertainment and Design”) phenomenon has grown to two large annual events and many smaller regional TEDx events, focusing mostly but not exclusively on technology. TED has posted more than 1,100...
It’s guaranteed that if I go to your actual tumblr page I will get confused by the “next” and “previous” buttons. These days it’s up there with death and taxes.
What does a free market in cabs look like? →
But what would London look like without TfL’s regulations and licenses? A real world example of an all-but-free taxi market can be found in that renowned hub of capitalist free-marketeering, Tehran. In the Iranian capital, any car is a potential taxi and anybody who wants to pick up a passenger does.
There are 22,000 black cabs in London and another 49,000 vehicles licensed for private hire....
A life without cheese is not a life.
Many aren’t aware of this, but DJ Shadow has one... →
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Tonight I really wanted to write something. Truly, I did. Instead I simply ate an entire pint of bonnaroo BUZZ, sipped whiskey, and contemplated how my life has gone and how my inability to “get it” has gotten me where I am. Ironically, that led to writing. The universe wins again!
If there is a God, or gods, or even if there isn’t or aren’t, at the very least I’m thankful for what I have and...
Be forewarned: If you have a shitty freezer and you happen to buy a pint of Ben & Jerry’s, you will most likely have to eat that entire pint in one night.
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Like super pissed →
“If we are allowed to deal with our eternity and all that we believe in spiritually, and if we’re allowed to read any book that we want under freedom of speech, why is it we can’t put into our body whatever we want?” - Ron Paul today.
I repeat my urging of Obama supporters and donors that if contacted by the Obama campaign to give them hell on their new war on medical marijuana, and...
Well this is pretty bad, Spain →
Spain’s development ministry estimates there are 687,000 unsold new homes for sale. Other studies put the number as high as 1.6 million in the nation of 47 million, where 80 percent of the population already lives in owned homes, a rate much higher than nations like France, Germany, Italy and the United States. There is no government figure for used homes for sale, but estimates range into...
Andrew really hates Obama's drug war. Really. →
A very helpful piece is in the current Rolling Stone which brings together all the recent developments in this administration’s volte-face on medical pot. It’s a staggering betrayal of the initial pledge to let states administer their own medical marijuana laws without DEA harrassment and intimidation. In fact, Obama’s war on medical marijuana is now worse than Bush’s....
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I’m gonna start a movement of hipster hiking. I’ll shave every day with a straight razor, wear boat shoes, take photos with a pinhole camera, grind my own coffee beans and use a French press, roll my own cigs, carry an axe, and use sheepskin condoms. Irony has never been more delicious. Or more weighty.
It’s a fucking movement, I tell ya!
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“Every date I’ve been on lately has been brutal. Last week I went out with a girl whose favorite band was Glee.” Thank you, thank you, Ted Mosby. I fucking hate Glee.
"Counterterrorism" in Yemen →
The United States “should have never made counterterrorism a source of profit for the regime, because that increased terrorism,” asserts Iryani. “Their agenda was to keep terrorism alive, because it was their cash cow.” The US bombings, he said, were “a bad mistake. Military action often backfires by killing civilians, by the violation of sovereignty. That offends a lot of Yemenis.” For the...
Itty bitty black swans of trading →
The afternoon of May 6, 2010 was among the strangest in economic history. Starting at 2:42 p.m. EDT, the Dow Jones stock index fell 600 points in just 6 minutes. Its nadir represented the deepest single-day decline in that market’s 114-year history. By 3:07 p.m., the index had rebounded. The “flash crash,” as it came to be known, was big, unexpected and scary — and a new study says flash events...
“No, Jez. The absolute worst thing anyone could say about you is that you were a...”
– Mark Corrigan
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