While hilarious and adorable, this is good way to run a computer monitor. From the are-you-fucking-kidding-me file: a Charles Dickens theme park. I’ve been meaning to post this for what seems like months but keep forgetting to, but here is what Wired refers to as “The Best Five Seconds the Internet Has to Offer,” an [...]
Archive for November, 2011
Just a few more things on Vonnegut before we move along. I posted Vonnegut’s NYT obit below, and here you can find a bizarre story from the ’50s involving Vonnegut, Sammy Davis Jr., Ronald Reagan (tangentially), and an America just beginning to acknowledge that blacks were people too. (Thanks to the Agitator for the link.) [...]
Senator Joe Biden (D-DE) has now made clear that he wants to intervene militarily to stop the civil war in Darfur. He has also been very critical of the Bush Administartion’s policy in Iraq, and he voted to set a deadline for the withdrawl of American troops. Now, to anyone who isn’t a partisan hack, [...]
This is a list of history’s 100 most influential people as selected by the Japanese. Although it shares the bias towards people closer to the present that almost all surveys of this sort have, I think it reveals a dramatic difference between Americans and the Japanese in what we consider to be historically important. However, [...]
I typically title entries on someone’s death more respectfully than this one, but Kurt Vonnegut could appreciate jokes about his own mortality and death, so it seemed appropriate. Kurt Vonnegut, creator of Billy Pilgrim, Harrison Bergeron, and Kilgore Trout is dead. Here is CNN’s article on his death, but I’ll try to hunt down some [...]
Last month, I wrote in a post criticizing the decline of American conservatism that “[t]he modern American conservative movement was formed following World War II by a number of fundamentally decent people like Russell Kirk, Richard Weaver, and Frank Meyer.” Today, my friend Dan McCarthy provided me with some more evidence for that proposition. Dan [...]
The Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel was on The Colbert Report just now, and she claimed that the Iraq war is the greatest foreign policy mistake in American history. This claim has been made by a number of well-informed commentators with diverse political viewpoints over the last few years and, frankly, it needs to stop. [...]
Oh Lord, on this Good Friday, please protect us from this fish. From the Agitator. If this actually happened, it wouldn’t shock me; I would just find it amazing anyone can understand more than 50% David Ortiz’s English. I’m sure some of my readers won’t think these links are very fun, but I highly recommend [...]
I fucking knew it! Power Point, at least as most people use it, actually detracts from presentations. The Sydney Morning Herald has the whole story: If you have ever wondered why your eyes start glazing over as you read those dot points on the screen, as the same words are being spoken, take heart in [...]
Someone finally ballsed up and asked Keith Richards a question we’ve all pondered: what is the craziest thing he’s ever snorted? From the Independent: “The strangest thing I’ve tried to snort? My father. I snorted my father,” said the 63-year-old in an interview with NME. “He was cremated and I couldn’t resist grinding him up [...]
