December 2010
superuseless superpowers →
A multimedia list of useless super-powers..
“Another example of the problem with the modeling assumptions is the multiplier...”
– Economics One: Models Used for Policy Should Reflect Recent Experience, But Do They?
Another one for the predictable-fiasco file..
“There’s always tension between freedom and fairness. We want less government...”
– Do We Want to Live in the Libertarians’ World? (via azspot)
This is such a strange quote, since the vast majority of libertarians recognize a role for the state in protecting children and prosecuting fraud. The libertarians I know believe that children are not capable of giving the kind of knowing...
America in Decline: Why Germans Think We're Insane →
All I got for Christmas..
..so far: a broken 48” water main and a boil water order.
Driver Crashes Muscle Car Onto Bush's Lawn →
Not from the Onion.
A man was questioned by the Secret Service Wednesday night after driving a Plymouth Barracuda onto the lawn of former President George W. Bush’s home near Dallas.
“Modern man does not know what to think of the chaotic world in which he lives...”
– “Every Cook Can Govern” by C.L.R. James, an essay on Athenian democracy which is incredible. (via brineman)
QotD: George Orwell - In Front of Your Nose
gilmoure:
The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a...
Study: Fox News Viewers Most Misinformed - The... →
Wil Wheaton playing D&D with the Golden...
greyweed:
Wil Wheaton playing D&D with the Golden Girls…
…framed in bacon
My wife points out one should rather dream of of a session with Dame Judi Dench - evidently she’s the DM for her grand-kids.
No, Seriously. Look it up.
Jalopnik: "Audi Owners Have Always Been Conceited" →
The truth hurts.
“A joke on the streets of Moscow these days: “Everything the Communists told us...”
– John Nellis, World Bank (via americanrevolutionpart2)
Reconsidering Japan and Reconsidering Paul Krugman →
Look at it this way: In the midst of the Great Recession, the United States is suffering through nearly 10 percent unemployment and 50 million people without health insurance. A new report has found over 14 percent of Americans living below the poverty line, including 20 percent of children and 23 percent of seniors, the highest numbers since President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty. That’s in...
Geminid meteor shower expected to be heavenly show →
