September 2008
56 posts
Everything hits at once
Not that this set of emails is surprising, but it seems as if there is finally some movement in these investigations. If we are gonna hit rock bottom, might as well be in everything.
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Best Debate Analysis Ever →
“The trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can...”
– RIP Paul Newman (via youngna)
“We have trade missions back and forth, we do. It’s very important when you...”
– Sarah Palin
Naptime! Timeout! Or Whatever!
Can I haz break?
I didn’t even know this was possible or what it means. This is oh so maverick-y.
Family Tree - TV on the Radio
Digging the new...
I just watched
6 consecutive episodes of Mad Men.
This thread is not about Sarah Palin
Word of the Day: Epizootic
Main Entry:
epi·zo·ot·ic
Pronunciation:
\ˌe-pə-zə-ˈwä-tik, -zō-ˈä-\
Function:
noun
Etymology:
French épizootique, from épizootie such an outbreak, from épi- (as in épidemie epidemic) + Greek zōiotēs animal nature, from zōē life — more at quick
Date:
1748
: an outbreak of disease affecting many animals of one kind at the same time ; also : the disease itself —...
“The recipient of the produce contained in this package agrees not to propagate...”
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My new haircut (and in particular, the way it was styled when I left) kind of makes me look like, venerable mayor of San Francisco, Gavin Newsom.
smalter:
Ed Hochuli has been getting an unbelievable amount of grief for his missed call, but what about the refs that blew the DeSean Jackson call? I could be wrong, but shouldn’t it have been ruled a fumble, and only because the play was whistled dead (presumably) when Jackson stepped into the end zone was the ball marked on the 1 yard line? Hochuli’s mistake was being so contrite.
This is all...
It was just a while back
I mentioned virtue ethics with respect to two articles about Michael Pollan and the values of traditional food systems and now there is this. Can I get a gold star?
No End in Sight: Part 2
deepalc:
sequentialist:
smalter:
sequentialist:
Time to make another movie about the total and headspinning incompetence of the Bush Administration?
I thought yesterday you wrote that no one understands the economy. Now you’re going to blame it on the Bush Administration?
What I said yesterday was that no one at all seems to understand it right now. I don’t know how that is at odds...
Watch
No End in Sight: Part 2
smalter:
sequentialist:
Time to make another movie about the total and headspinning incompetence of the Bush Administration?
I thought yesterday you wrote that no one understands the economy. Now you’re going to blame it on the Bush Administration?
What I said yesterday was that no one at all seems to understand it right now. I don’t know how that is at odds with blaming the Bush...
No End in Sight: Part 2
Time to make another movie about the total and headspinning incompetence of the Bush Administration?
John McCain: Inventor of the Blackberry
All you losers who thought you invented the world’s most popular personal digital assistant (that’s right, step off, Al Gore), now you know it was put together on the Straight Talk Express.
UPDATE
Sarah Palin installed a tanning bed at the... →
youngna:
Sarah Palin spent $35,000 on a personal tanning bed.
One thing I will never make an unnecessary expenditure on as an elected official is a tanning bed.
“But do you know what the difference is between a dead moose with lipstick on and...”
– George Saunders
The Streets
1. Maybe the trope, “Wall Street and Main Street” or the many variations of that used by commentators, represents a) an alienation on the part of financial commentators from reality, and/or b) the total, troubling disconnect between the haves of the financial world and the have-nots in small towns across the country.
2. A corollary: Regardless, it is a stupid trope.
deepalc:
While the liberal project of toleration and the postmodern emphasis on diverse perspective still pervade our national consciousness, perhaps with more urgency than before, we aspire to reclaim a unity of purpose that would fulfill the promises of our national myth … America seeks not only to absorb the authenticity of its constituent communities but also to achieve its own internal...
smalter:
How funny is it that during these times we don’t have a presidential candidate that seems to understand the economy?
What’s funny is that no one at all seems to understand it right now.
When the going gets tough, the tough get going?
Do we even have a president anymore? Haven’t heard much from him in a while.
Fourth time is not a charm
Unfortunately for Lehman, it’s apparently the fourth taxpayer funded bailout of a financial giant that would have confirmed the federal government’s willingness to shoulder near-infinite liability for unconscionable risk-taking and led to moral hazard. Really? I gotta say for me it would be the sixth one. After that there is no turning back.
“The fundamentals of our economy are strong.”
– Presidential candidate Sen. John McCain on September 15th, 2008
And you thought import substitution was dead?!
This might just be what ISI was trying to accomplish. It’s possible, had both sides not been so ideologically driven or doctrinaire over the last 50 odd years, that this solution might have come sooner. Plus, now one can see that there are added benefits (though not made explicit) such as environmental conservancy/protection of biodiversity, movement towards local, sustainable economies,...
Breaking News! - Moustaches Suck Edition
Can this stupid theory be put to rest now? Or at least be given a better name?
Yes or No? →
“In the same emphatic, empirical, dominating way that Lendl drove home his own...”
– DFW R.I.P.
WatchYowza!
What I learned in law school today
deepalc:
If you act negligently, you are not necessarily an unreasonable person. We all make mistakes, it’s just that the reasonable person you’re being compared to is extraordinary in his consistent reasonableness. If I ever meet this person, I will shake his (or her) hand.
Welcome to the first of many meetings with the reasonable person. Reasonable person, as I often found it, was ultimately...
The Federator Returns
Apparently
deepalc:
It’s not important for vice presidential candidates to be dignified.
Exhibit one: Dan Quayle
SF: Bizarro World
Today has revolved around a series of rather strange and fortuitous incidences. Not going to provide further detail.
smalter:
The phrase “footsolider in the Reagan revolution” makes me think of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie.
As it should for all persons of our generation.
Well which one is it, Peggy?
This or this?
Additionally, excerpts from Mitt Romney’s speech tonight:
We need change all right — change from a liberal Washington to a conservative Washington! We have a prescription for every American who wants change in Washington — throw out the big government liberals and elect John McCain.
and
It’s time to stop the spread of government dependency to fight it like...
Edmund Burke was a foodie? What?
1. Unrelated to the article: the term “foodie” is an idiotic one. In fact, the whole idea, as I understand it is totally stupid and bizarrely fetishistic about food.
2. This is the second article about food and Michael Pollan that relates it all back to Burke and/or other such conservative thinkers. This is no longer intellectual coincidence. Plus, if one thinks about it from a...
Thanks, Garrison Keillor. →
“God only made one John McCain, and he is his own man.”
– Joe Lieberman speaking at the Republican National Convention.