Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Ask any school-kid how decisions get made in a “Democracy” and you’ll get the classic two word answer: “Majority Rule.” Or, if the kid went to school during the Bush administration, “The Vice President tells the President what to do and he orders the army to do it.” But I digress. Many people think that [...]
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
I think I might have ejaculated after reading this entry. This chunk, though a bit long, took my breath away. Here’s the thing about Americans. You can send their kids off by the thousands to get their balls blown off in foreign lands for no reason at all, saddle them with billions in debt year [...]
Monday, September 29, 2008
In light of the bailout bill’s failure today and the subsequent 777 point loss to the DJIA I find this HL Mencken quote quite fitting: Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
Monday, September 29, 2008
So I graduated high school in 92, from Elk River, which means that most people I graduated with were shitbags and retards. (No offense.) Then, in the years that followed, I had to endure an avalanche of stories about how some oaf or other who couldn’t even read was making 14 billion dollars a year [...]
Sunday, September 28, 2008
My mom used to tell me that if I wanted to get high it was better to get high on life. Considering that life is dangerous and depressing, and that this summary of a study will tell you the drugs in order of dangerousness, I think I could make a more informed decision. High on [...]
Saturday, September 27, 2008
So I’m sitting here glancing through The Shield of Achilles and getting depressed. There’s no sensible reason to be depressed, but that doesn’t really mean very much. The problem is that even in the course of a handful of pages it’s become very clear how little I know about almost everything. From time to time [...]
Friday, September 26, 2008
So today I did my first round of neighborhood canvassing for Barack Obama. Pretty interesting. First, his website is awesome. They have this “Neighbor to Neighbor” tool where you sign up with your name, address, email and then they give you a list of 25 people that live nearby you that you can go talk [...]
Friday, September 26, 2008
You know how everybody’s been trying to get you to eat a lot of green, leafy vegetables, less meat and processed foods? And you know how you don’t want to, and you fucking refuse? And you know how you’re in crappy physical condition? Well, the glorious market might solve this for you, though not quite [...]
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Fixing a bunch of long-standing cruft. LSH is now _really_ at http://www.longstraighthighway.com – no more redirection. So if your RSS readers were pointed at the wp directory, please adjust that. I have somehow managed to botch it so that all the posts say “0 comments” but rest assured that the torrent of comments that you [...]