Thursday, October 23, 2008
I’m back from NYC and you know what I saw a lot of? People who had merged with machines. Yes, a few of these were freaky cyborgs, like cars with human heads, or cats with little computers embedded in their brains and controlled remotely by their human owners. Vastly outnumbering these folks, though, were more-or-less [...]
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
From the “I wish I had written it” deparment: …but rather than wailing about the perfidy of the defectors and demanding to know what side people are on one might want to consider what it is about one’s own side that seems to have become so radioactive. It’s all very well to say that the [...]
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
So I was reading the .pdf file of the poll just released by NBC/WSJ this evening and I found this little nugget: 28a. I’m going to read you several things that some people have said concern them about John McCain’scandidacy. Please tell me which TWO of these, if any, cause you the most concern. (IF [...]
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
People say we are at war but we almost never see it on tv anymore. Well, I don’t. I don’t have a whole lot of time for tv. And on the tv I do see, I see people talk about it, show maps, and show recycled footage from a year ago. Every once in a while I [...]
I just wanted to drop a quick note to let ya’ll know that the reason I’ve been not updating is cause I’ve been in NYC. I’ll be back in a few days, and the torrid pace of LSH will re-assert itself. On another note, I took a job. In New Hampshire. It’s a one-year contract, [...]
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Sometimes the lukewarm endorsements are the best. Plus, Hitchens is always entertaining. I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization against its terrorist enemies and their totalitarian protectors, and on that “issue” I hope I can continue to expose and oppose any ambiguity. Obama is greatly overrated in [...]
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Norm Coleman wants you to hop on the positivity train.
In a paper published in the August issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Norman identifies vitamin D’s potential for contributions to good health in the adaptive and innate immune systems, the secretion and regulation of insulin by the pancreas, the heart and blood pressure regulation, muscle strength and brain activity. In addition, access [...]
I would link to this but it’s just some dude in a comment-thread on Lifehacker, and so not really relevant to anything. But it’s beautifully said, by Teddy Roosevelt, and worth reporting: “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of [...]
Because I’m a petty son of a bitch I get jealous when other people do cool stuff that I wish that I had done, or was doing. This can be the source of bitter moments. Or bitter years, actually. Anyway, bitterness, where the internal narrative is something like: ‘I could do that, you fuckwit. Why [...]