October 2008
60 posts
Don’t Mistake Ambition for Entitlement →
What you mistake for entitlement is, in actuality, a differing world-view. We grew up seeing our parents and grandparents work their lives away in a state of near-indentured servitude. Meanwhile the rich grew richer while our elders, in aggregate and especially over the last 8 years, treaded water. They held fast to their puritan ethic, trusting that hard work was its own reward, which we’re sure...
Holy fuck!
WatchSynchronized Debate Video that shows all three debates where they overlapped with the candidates repeating themselves.
Let’s just call it Video Wednesday…
WatchRives continues to be the only spoken word artist that I can’t help but listen to.
Arrived home to fresh baked bread.
Hindenberg thoughts on the walk home.
Cannibal cult mother who skinned son and made him... →
Watchmesmerizing. “Truck Sweat,” directed by Tobacco, for music also by Tobacco from the album “Fucked Up Friends.”
“We grudge no man a fortune in civil life if it is honorably obtained and well...”
– Teddy Roosevelt
McCain’s hero Teddy Roosevelt was more socialist than Obama. - By Timothy Noah - Slate Magazine
“Spain’s new Plan of Voluntary Return, which goes into effect Monday,...”
– Spain Tries to Buy Out Immigrants
- TIME
“Faulk says he and others in his section of the NSA facility at Fort Gordon...”
– ABC News Exposes Secret Government Phone Sex Ring
Apparently American intelligence agencies screen most calls coming from the Middle East and then they have a laugh at people’s phone sex and pillow talk, trading the calls around like we trade youtube videos.
Watchdalasverdugo:
optimisto:
anti-islamic McCain supporters vs. Islamic McCain supporters
This is a must-watch. It’s good to see these people put in their place.
I really do think that the only way we are going to move past a lot of this ignorance and fear is to confront this shit when you see it. I really do hope that people who aspire to have a nation that supports equality and truth will learn...
The Things He Carried | The Atlantic Online |... →
A must read. Sidenote: This page is gorgeous to look at on my new Macbook screen. Great typography.
Twelve Virtues of Rationality →
I aspire to this.
Japan Goes Bananas For a New Diet - TIME →
Something about foreign trend diets points out so glaringly what is ridiculous about the trend diets that show up in this country.
Restricting the variety of my food never sits right with me, I can’t get past feeling like eating many different foods is the best way to go, but in moderation and with a good amount of plain old physical activity.
The heaviest I’ve ever been was when...
Nerd time.
The one and only complaint I have about my new Macbook is that it took 4 hours to transfer my data from the old machine to the new because they removed the firewire port. I had to hook these bitches up via ethernet which required installing some software from a disc onto the old machine and then pairing the two through and adhoc network. Slow as molasses.
However that is done now and I must...
“As of Friday, a $10,000 investment in the S.& P. stock market index would...”
– Tommy McCall
Western Views - The Morning News →
This is so beautiful. Take a break and look through these this morning.
“So, if you are not employed by the financial industry (94 percent of you are...”
– Casey Mulligan There Is No Reason to Panic - Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog
Dick Fuld: Lehman Bros. CEO Totally Got Knocked... →
Not sure why I hadn’t heard about this before. You figure it would’ve been big CNN tabloid style news. Can’t say I’m disappointed one of these bastards got jabbed in the eye.
Taxes, Warren Buffett, and Paying My Fair Share... →
Anecdote about Warren Buffet proving the tax rate problem.