My house is on fire. Oh my God! Are you OK? I’m good, you know. How are you doing? No, I mean, your house! Where are you? Just watching the game, taking a little break. Where? Are you … Where else? Here on the sofa. Duh. But the fire … Yeah, it’s horrible. The worst thing you can imagine. Wait. I don’t understand. You said your house is on fire. Yeah. It’s a shame. A national tragedy. But, but you’re... Read more
Last month I was surfing a bit at The Blacklisted Journalist — an awkwardly designed website hosting the writings of Al Aronowitz. I was looking for his August Blues, which is a lovely thing: August is the month when wars start. It’s when the water dries up and the spirit begins to wither. Insomniacs pull down their shades and lock themselves in their rooms in August. Lifelong friends have fist fights. People feel like they’re going to burst. Sometimes they... Read more
He pulls prayer book out of his sleeping bag Preacher lights up a butt and takes a drag Waitin’ for when the last shall be first and the first shall be last In a cardboard box ‘neath the underpass Got a one-way ticket to the promised land You got a hole in your belly and gun in your hand Sleeping on a pillow of solid rock Bathin’ in the city aqueduct The highway is alive tonight But where it’s headed... Read more
Everybody knows that the boat is leaking Everybody knows that the captain lied Everybody got this broken feeling Like their father or their dog just died Everybody’s talking to their pockets Everybody wants a box of chocolates And a long stem rose Everybody knows Read more
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Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows that the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich get rich That’s how it goes Everybody knows Read more
My bookmarks folder is overflowing, so to clear out some of these aging links, here’s a collection of cool things. How cool? How about a collection of photos from the Cash family vault? (via) That’s pretty cool indeed. It was also cool to learn via Wikileaks that the Vatican lobbied against Uganda’s anti-homosexuality bill. Good for them. A bunch of Christians in Tennessee had a pretty cool response to hearing that a Murfreesboro Mosque had once again received bomb threats... Read more
Andrew Gelman of Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science brings us the “(Worst) graph of the year.” It’s a graph that purports to show the tendency toward violent militancy of “pious and devout” believers from various world religions. Which is to say it’s a piece of execrable BS tossed together by anti-Muslim bigots who suckered the FBI into paying them for this nonsense. No, really, the Federal Bureau of Investigation paid for this in the name of “counter-terrorism” training.... Read more
Tribulation Force, pp. 407-413 The central theme of this series of books is always the same: You are right and someday everyone else will see that you were right all along. That triumphalism plays out on a cosmic scale throughout this story, but it also pervades even the smaller, more intimately human-scaled scenes of these books. Here, as we finally get to meet the woman Rayford Steele is about to marry, this same theme is replayed yet again. Amanda White... Read more
. Job seekers: Let us know where you are and what you’re looking for. Everybody: Skim through and see if you know something, or know someone, or know someone who knows someone, who might help out one of our job seekers. Read more
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