From the AP: A van accompanying bicyclists riding to raise money for families of slain police officers was struck by a truck and spun into the group, killing a state trooper and a retired sherrif’s official, authorities said. Whole thing here. Disagree that a charity ride to raise money for slain police officers actually resulted [...]
Archive for November, 2011
The Ultimate Showdown, for real (click on play video). Read Bush’s vacation reading diary on The Stranger. Finally, have a look at comedian Eugene Mirman’s website and some of his videos, which range from the strange (and here) to the downright absurd.
Send a personalized message from Sam Jackson to your friends and remind them to go see Snakes on a Plane. Honestly, the whole publicity campaign for this movie may be the most brilliant marketing move ever. Link from The Agitator.
Erstwhile conservative and contemporary liberal douchebag Michael Lind is proclaiming “The unmourned end of libertarian politics” today in the pages of the Financial Times. He tells a familiar, if misleading, story: liberalism comes of age in the Great Depression and World War II, reaches its apogee in the 1950s and ’60s, self-destructs in the early [...]
Brian Doss of the Catallarchy gang has an excellent post at his personal blog that really demolishes a CNN piece (via the AP–natch) on how metal has “grown up” recently. I will primarily defer to Doss’ statements, but I must offer a few additional observations. First, metal never needed to grow up. It sprang forth, [...]
Left-handers that is. Not only are geniuses more likely to come from our ranks, but Tyler Cowen also points to a paper showing that left-handers earn more money than their right-handed peers when education level is held constant. Cowen’s explanation? “Left-handers have idiosyncrasies, obsessions, and downright insanities which lift some of them into productivity heaven.” [...]
Only time will ultimately tell whether Israel’s bombing and invasion of Lebanon was as big a fuck-up as I thought it was, but it’s already clear that most Israelis think the war was a failure. From the Independent: While restraining from a direct personal attack on [Israeli Prime Minister Ehud] Olmert, Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of [...]
This is hands down the weirdest thing I’ve read so far this year.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Democracy simply doesn't work.
Posted: August 10, 2006 in UncategorizedAt least not when people are this stupid: Nearly a third of Americans don’t know (or don’t remember) that hijacked jetliners smashed into the World Trade Center towers, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field in 2001. [....] Almost all of those who didn’t know when 9/11 happened were over, 55 with 48% between 55 and [...]
Last year around this time, I wrote a post commemorating the sixtieth anniversary of the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and condemning an asshole who referred to those tragedies as “among the most humane acts in human history.” (Unfortunately, the comments on that post were lost to posterity in the site’s upgrade because that post [...]
