are retarded, or at least these kids who thought chewing mothballs to get high was a good idea are. Now, I’m sure that this isn’t going to become a big craze–whether the media try to blow it up into one is another matter: anyone remember the morning glory seed scare?–but that doesn’t change the fact [...]
Archive for November, 2011
So I’ve put off posting on the Israeli re-occupation of Lebanon for some time, mainly because I wasn’t entirely sure what I thought about what had been going on, but events in the last few days have clarified my thinking: Israel is in the wrong and they’ve made a terrible mistake. I think Israel has [...]
Yesterday, I was brushing my teeth, when I started to wonder how long it had been since I had seen the dentist. I realized that I couldn’t remember, and that likely meant I was still in high school (i.e. five years ago, at least). Then I wondered “why hasn’t my health insurance company hounded me [...]
Here is a recording of Cab Calloway playing the song “Reefer Man” back in the ’30s, most likely before the passage of the 1937 Marihuana Tax Act, which, for all intents and purposes, criminalized weed. I wonder who the audience for this recording was. Hat tip to Jesse Walker at Hit and Run for the [...]
Check out this video of Stephen Colbert totally wailing on the clowns that make up most of television news in this country. These “journalists” have been looking to get even with Colbert ever since he tore into them at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner (video here). Too bad he just shamed them even worse than [...]
Tim Harford of Undercover Economist fame has an excellent and very brief article up at Slate on why the incredibly stupid attempts by many schools to ban junk food will, like all prohibitions, inevitably fail. I actually have some very direct experience with this issue. When I was in high school candy could only be [...]
So, the jackass who brought us that steaming pile of dogshit called The Village has a new movie out. Why do people like this guy? Every movie has a less inspired twist at the end than the last one. If you’re films are entirely predicated on a surprise ending, you’re making crap. I’ve watched plenty [...]
The Washington Post reports that a number of conservatives–especially those of the neo variety–are angered with Bush’s failure to attack a whole host of countries, but primarily Iran and North Korea: Bill Kristol and colleagues associated with his Weekly Standard have been agitating for years about what they see as inadequate troop levels in Iraq, [...]
This is even weirder than the Ali G interview of Chomsky: a site filled with pictures of the most bizarre statues in the world. Link from The Agitator.
