I don’t really know why I bother linking to things like this article describing some of the Canadian healthcare myths. Oh wait, yes I do – because I secretly want somebody who reads this blog to make some idiotic fucking comment about what a bad idea single-payer coverage is so I can smash them with [...]
I hadn’t really decided whether or not to see the new Transformers movie. On the plus side, it’s a spectacle, and I love spectacle. On the minus side, it’s bound to be at about the right dramatic level for someone who’s had a pencil stabbed into his brain, or else anyone who likes Nascar. But [...]
You guys may remember that I respect Tyler Cowen enough to have bought one of his books just to get a personalized answer to a question (about how reading speed affects assimilation) and that he is my answer to the thought experiment: If you could sit next to anybody on an airplane, who would you [...]
As someone who’s ranted many a time about the non-transportation issues involved in public transportation and urban development, I found this blurb pretty interesting: But even subtle growth can have a dramatic impact. The environmental activist group Friends of the Earth estimates that just 10 miles of a new four-lane highway create the equivalent lifetime [...]
This is a short video showing a clash between the protestors and the riot police. If you watch to the end you see the protestors routing the police to cries of “Hurrah! Hurrah!” Battle w/ Police – Tehran, Iran – June 20th 2009 by mightier-than
Monica and I came home tonight from father’s day at my parents’ and somebody had mowed our lawn. My first thought was jubilation – I fucking despise mowing the lawn: it sets off my allergies like crazy and hurts my wrists and is just generally miserable, and as I’ve avoided mowing the lawn I’ve become [...]
This is, spectacular, to say the least. In 1993, William Osburne was convicted of kidnapping, assaulting and raping a woman in Anchorage, Alaska. He spent the next 14 years of his life behind bars. Osburne insists that he is innocent, the State of Alaska has in its possession DNA evidence which will once and for [...]
It’s been a year now since I showed up in Seattle for Clarion West. Despite the effect of the feelable unit reduction as you get older – how time slips away faster, with less to show for it – I think this last year might have been the fullest ever, though not, in the final [...]
I like good charts, so here’s one that displays the creeping socialism in the USA: Be very afraid! Frickin commies! (Got this from Conor Clarke‘s blog post for The Atlantic.)
You just have to. Elan will especially appreciate this. (via kottke.)