Wow. Some people are so dumb it would take them an hour to make minute rice. I want to get that site’s customer list so I can do a tour and just slap people upside the head. Or possibly sell them them my air purifying apparatus, which takes advantage of non-commutative loop space in M5-branes [...]
While I’m at it, here’s a little something Will clued me in to. There are other human rights that the UN is trying to craft declarations of, as part of its continuing efforts to establish some baselines for civilized national behaviours.
These are two quotes from what are essentially meeting minutes from a committee meeting wherein [...]
Did you read where earlier this month, as part of the celebration of the anniversary of the U.N.’s 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, France and the Netherlands sponsored a new non-binding UN declaration extending the rights guaranteed in the UDHR to homosexual and transgender people?
Out of the 192 countries in the UN, only 66 [...]
That’s a screen cap from the video for Amanda Palmer’s tune Leeds United.
(As an aside, that video was directed by sometime comic book writer Alex DeCampi, and I found out today that at least two of my online acquaintances1 are actually part of the audience in the video.)
Anyway, looking at that screen cap, do you [...]
Manipulation and self-interest suffused relations between the sexes even when gentlemen strode the earth; a few pages of Edith Wharton should disabuse any doubters on that score.
The lengthy article on modern dating, Love in the Time of Darwinism, at City Journal raised several reaction in me while I was reading it.
The only thing I reacted [...]
Very regularly since the American presidential race was set, and with more and more frequency over the last month, I’ve found myself astonished by how McCain seems ready to throw away every vestige of honour in what seems to be a “do anything to win” campaign of sleaze.
It makes me think of Campbell.
And the more [...]
And now, a few observations about things completely unrelated to either North American election:
That Wisdom book showed up today. Totally worth the money. It’s been a long time since I bought a “coffee table book”, but if I had a coffee table I’d be proud to leave this out on it.
You know where I’m find [...]
What may end up disgusting me the most is actually the turnout number.
Here’s some background from an article, “Voter turnout: democracy’s dirty little secret“, that ran during the campaign:
In 1988, a healthy 75 per cent of the voters cast their ballots, but no turnout since then has come close to that level.
— 1993: 70.9 [...]
You know the drill, this is the miscellaneous tab closing ceremony. Since I’m tired of politics today, there will be none in this list.
I have had several discussions about this recent article on a particular form of elective surgery. All that I can conclude from these discussions is that I have different aesthetic than many [...]
I am filled with rage at our offensive, crypto-Republican right wing minority government today. Let’s look at few things in order of ascending offensiveness.
First we’ll start with financial irregularities, disregard for the rule of law, and good old talking points spin:
Elections chief counters Tory defence on expenses practices
Elections officials found no evidence that other political [...]
Just because yours is smaller doesn’t make you less of a man. Unless we’re talking about your brain.
Tired of paying through the nose, Americans try praying at the pump
“Lord, the prices at this pump have gone up since last week. We know that you are able, that you have all the power in the world,” he prayed, before former beauty queen Rashida Jolley led the group in a modified version of the [...]
Seriously?
I mean, seriously?
Republicans picked Huckabee?
Even in crazy Jesusland, isn’t “I won’t sign this bill because calling a tornado an ‘act of God’ makes God look bad” crazy enough to make someone unelectable?
I expected some ludicrousness from Americans, especially Republicans, but my expectations have been exceeded.
And I thought the TSA facecrime thing would be the dumbest [...]
Bush hits record disapproval ratings on the same day that oil gets within spitting distance of $100 a barrel?
Sure, he can fake a country into a war, run a torture prison, admit that he tortures people, run a special program to extradite people for torture, remove all civil rights, spy on citizens without any warrants, [...]
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