February 2008
Somewhere Matt Mattucci is reading this and having... →
http://nintendo8.com/ is all the nintendo you could want … on your computer.
If you don’t vote for McCain you hate the Irish
alexbalk: I know it’s a waste of time to get worked up about a feministy-but-written-by-a-dude! article from Salon, but this one makes the same remarkably stupid point twice: Men “don’t object to a woman in the White House, they say. They just object to Hillary. Even though, in this election, that’s the same thing.” It’s like saying that if you don’t vote for McCain you hate the Irish. (Which,...
A Note of Caution →
A new five dollar bill, we has it.
“They weren’t spies, they were gigolos, in uniform, cruising the suburbs for...”
– http://www.viceland.com/int/v15n2/htdocs/skinema.php
“If I were to distill one main lesson from the research described in this book,...”
– What Was I Thinking?: Books: The New Yorker Economic irrationality really brings the sun into my life. (via hellofriend)
John Stuart Mill rolls over →
The Danish cartoons of Mohammed are back in the news again. Chris Hitchens, who is wrong about everything except religion (on which he is God — pun intended), nails this one. The object of the satire was to break the largely self-imposed taboo on the criticism of Islam and its various icons. The satire was wildly successful, in that it resulted in hysterical Muslims making public idols out...
Something's happenin here -- A quick history of...
So… back at the alma matter, Indiana’s shot at a return to national glory was probably just shot in the head, metaphorically. See, IU is a basketball school in the heart of a basketball state. We had Bob Knight, but it turns out, he’s a real ass. So in a backalley power play, IU got rid of him (to do it in the open would have incited too many hicks to mob violence). Then we...
