March 2009

Day 1293: Evil Eye

March 13, 2009

“The world is full of tragedies enough without [people] having to resort to curses for explanations.” These words jumped out of Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao and slapped me awake. Too educated for their own good and cosmopolitan, equally religious and superstitious.  That’s my family to a tee.  For most of [...]

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Day 1291: The Dark Side Of HinJewism

March 11, 2009

I’ve often opined that Hindus are the lost tribe of Israel.  Our self-righteousness, paranoia, orthodoxy, financial parsimony and big noses are too eerily similar to overlook.  Just the way both parties keep kosher is a dead giveaway.  Once this SatireWire piece came out, it was only a matter of seconds before I plotted world domination via [...]

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links for 2009-03-10

March 10, 2009

A Brief History Of The Apocalypse Immanentize the eschaton already. (tags: reference history humor religion disaster philosophy christianity calendar future) The Telegraph | Dr. Who Dalek Found In Pond Who fans rejoice and say, "I told you so." (tags: article news culture tv ScienceFiction) Web 2.0 Weenies and Bullshit Social Media Economics Have warned for [...]

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Day 1290: Glug Glug (The Sounds Of Drowning)

March 10, 2009

You know today’s incarnation of the Republican party is in trouble when it receives repeated criticism from  its very own George Wills and David Frums.  Read this latest from Frum in Newsweek: … At the peak of the Bush boom in 2007, the typical American worker was earning barely more after inflation than the typical American [...]

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Day 1289: “Move Your Whiskey Before You Start Shooting”

March 9, 2009

D’s been invited to a bachelor party.  At a firing range.  This is a video response. (Here’s the link if video doesn’t load.) Tweet

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links for 2009-03-05

March 5, 2009

MacWorld | Yahoo CEO Likes Google Maps Better Than Yahoo Maps Mmmmokay. Good on you for calling a spade a spade, but what does your board think? Well, I like Mapquest better than Google Maps and Yahoo Maps, the latter hardly ever used. So there. (tags: maps google GoogleMaps mapping) Location Intelligence Conference | 3D [...]

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Day 1285: Taxing Gulf Of Mexico Oil & Gas Production

March 5, 2009

Reuters | US Treasury Secretary Attacks Oil, Gas Tax Breaks (last paragraph emphasized by me, before some of you have a seizure) “We don’t believe it makes sense to significantly subsidize the production and use of sources of energy (like oil and gas) that are dramatically going to add to our climate change (problem). We don’t [...]

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Day 1286: Pretty

March 5, 2009

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links for 2009-03-04

March 4, 2009

History.com | How The Earth Was Made: Loch Ness History Channel geology show with Loch Ness, an amazing natural school of geology, as example. Watched the show twice because this locale has everything – compressional tectonics, thick-skinned thrusting (pre-Cambrian gneisses and gabbros on Paleozoic sedimentary rock), preserved Jurassic dinosaur footprints, continental rifting, strike-slip tectonics, and [...]

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Day 1285: How To Cut Off Nose To Spite Face

March 4, 2009

Thanks, Blagueur! For people AND THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA are this stupid. A 63-year-old attorney based in Lafayette, La., who asked not to be named, told ABCNews.com that she plans to cut back on her business to get her annual income under the quarter million mark should the Obama tax plan be passed by Congress and [...]

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