December 2008
Sic Semper Tyrannis 2008: "More difficult than... →
“More difficult than many people anticipated.” Say what? More difficult than anticipated by IDF General Staff Intelligence? If that is so, then things have really gone to hell in a hand basket in the Qirya. You used to do better work. Maybe it is the politicians who have imposed this “goat rope” on the IDF. Maybe.
Remember Lebanon in ‘06. We all really know...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-12-21) →
Die Form (28)
:wumpscut: (24)
E Nomine (11)
Aesthetic Perfection (5)
The Changelings (5)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
They Might be Giants - Seven Days of the Week (I...
John Gorrie, Florida's Greatest Man →
We have a museum (and a statue in the US Capitol) honoring the inventor of refrigeration and air conditioning. That’s Florida, after all. Priorities man.
Daily Kos: Book review: Krugman's "The Return of... →
I’m tempted to say that the crisis is like nothing we’ve ever seen before. But it might be more accurate to say that it’s like everything we’ve seen before, all at once: a bursting real estate bubble comparable to what happened in Japan at the end of the 1980s; a wave of bank runs comparable to those of the early 1930s (albeit mainly involving the shadow banking system...
Fire Walk With Me (1992) →
“A young FBI agent disappears while investigating a murder miles from Twin Peaks that may be related to the future murder of Laura Palmer; the last week of the life of Laura Palmer is chronicled
David Bowie … Phillip Jeffries”
“US TAXPAYERS MONEY IN ACTION: 1000 PALESTINIANS KILLED AND INJURED IN ONE DAY”
– Raed in the Middle: US taxpayers money in Action: 1000 palestinians killed and injured in one day
6 People Who Just Fucking Disappeared →
butterflyeffects:
Somebody posted this earlier (I’ve forgotten who.. sorry!) and I didn’t bother to keep the reblog link because I fully expected to see at least two entries that weren’t included:
Harold Holt, who was the Australian Prime Minster in 1966-67. He went swimming at the beach one day and was never seen again. He was our PRIME MINISTER. Like for instance, if Barack Obama went...
butterflyeffects:
totalblamblam:
snuh:
David...
Learn Basic Japanese with Big Bird: Ichi, Ni, San →
Christmas Logistics with Meg
The last two days Meg has been puzzling why Santa would give gifts from China and Sweden, and how he pays for toy factories, and how he picks them up and redistributes them…
Sigh.. such an analytical mind.
“Groucho : You can have any kind of a home you want. You can even get...”
– Cultural ignorance - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com
Be a Help and Not a Burden
That is all.
naked capitalism: Santa Left Retailers Lumps of... →
From the Wall Street Journal:
….considering individual sectors, “This will go down as the one of the worst holiday sales seasons on record,” said Mary Delk, a director in the retail practice at consulting firm Deloitte LLP. “Retailers went from ‘Ho-ho’ to ‘Uh-oh’ to ‘Oh-no.’”
The holiday retail-sales decline was much worse than...
topherchris:
Spinal Tap _ Christmas with the...
Mabel...mabel, mabel, mabel.
butterflyeffect:
Ok ok ok… wait just a minute here. What’s all this fahrenheit business Ms Mabez? Which country are we living in here? That’s the second time I’ve seen you go imperial today…
Funny to see it still referred to as “Imperial” when we’re (us Yanks) the only people who stick with bushels and rods. Future generations may forget which empire it refers to. :)
“The future is a shoe being thrown at a human face - forever!”
– Crooked Timber
Bad anti-stimulus arguments - Paul Krugman Blog -... →
A number of conservative economists have been arguing against a stimulus plan centered on government spending. Fair enough. But one argument I keep reading bugs me: it’s the claim that spending-based stimulus is bad because economic theory tells us that a marginal dollar of private spending is better than a marginal dollar of government spending.
That’s just wrong; it’s a misreading of basic,...
Henry V: Act 4, Scene 5
Constable
Why, all our ranks are broke.
DAUPHIN
O perdurable shame! let’s stab ourselves.
Be these the wretches that we play’d at dice for?
ORLEANS
Is this the king we sent to for his ransom?
BOURBON
Shame and eternal shame, nothing but shame!
Let us die in honour: once more back again;
And he that will not follow Bourbon now,
Let him go hence, and with his cap in...
Siphonophores →
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-12-21) →
Die Form (28)
:wumpscut: (24)
E Nomine (11)
The Changelings (5)
Aesthetic Perfection (5)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
What's your sign?
bebelestrange:
marychrist:
precis:
For real, I want to know. I think it’ll be really interesting to see how each of your Tumblr personalities relate to your sign. (I already have some ideas about a few of you…)
I’ll start. I’m a Scorpio/Sagittarius cusp.
Technically I’m a Sagittarius (I’m like 0.5 degrees into the sign, if you know anything about that kind of stuff) on the cusp of Scorpio,...
Be still my heart
Meg has hit me with a series of incisive religious inquiries this week.. which I tried to handle without getting me into too deep water with her most catholic grandparents.. but this morning at the breakfast table she turned to me in sudden great concern and spoke in a rush:
“Is there really a Santa Claus? Really? is there?”
Of course there is, kid, of course there is.
Ah, the...
