BlogBites

November 30th, 2009

Half naked girls on stilts! This is my kind of party! Twitter / Siiri Mandery  

November 29th, 2009

The Indonesian Minister of Communication and Information (who must be very smart to have a title like that) has determined that recent natural disasters in his country are a consequence of the ubiquity of pornographic DVDs. Porn causes tsunamis and earthquakes : Pharyngula  

The Catholic Church weighs the lives of tens of thousands of sick, homeless people against the chance to slap down the dignity of gay people again, and obviously the most important thing is to make sure the primacy of heterosexuality is preserved. Catholic priorities must be maintained! : Pharyngula  

November 28th, 2009

While I understand that Afghanistan’s multi-ethnic character means multiple languages, there’s no reason that the American trainers couldn’t give simple commands in at least one of them…after eight years. Not only is the ANA expected to defeat the Taliban on half Taliban pay, but they get to do it while taking EFL classes. Scholars and Rogues » When getting high just isn’t “cool”  

Windows is like herpes. Or genital warts. Nobody chooses Windows. People get Windows. The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs : Borgtard blurts out truth, gets spanked in public  

November 27th, 2009

If you find yourself chewing the memory card in your cellphone to destroy any record of your misconduct, something has gone terribly wrong with your character. An Insider-Trading Scheme That Brought in $20 Million - NYTimes.com  

November 26th, 2009

Making taxpayers help pay for people forced to buy crappy health insurance because four senators want to preserve their Daschle retirement option is not good policy or good politics. Eschaton  

Remember that it is far better to eat turkey than to be eaten by them… Happy Thanksgiving : Mike the Mad Biologist  

We’re all doomed. We are currently survivors by luck, sustained by selfish processes, and I don’t thank luck, because she (if she were an autonomous self-aware agent, and she isn’t) will turn for me or against me without concern for my feelings. Nature is not appeasable, get over it. Happy Wary Vigilance Day! : Pharyngula  

My eyes are burning, my throat and lungs are raked raw and it looks like a brown sunset all day long, but we are a modern nation. On the Silk Road: “Betterment”  

November 25th, 2009

I didn’t know we had so many scared conservative leaders. Commentary: Why not throw the whole Constitution out while we’re at it? | McClatchy  

When I was running for President, no one knew exactly what ‘Change You Can Believe In’ meant. One year later, I am proud to say that that is still the case. Andy Borowitz: Obama Says He Has Fulfilled Campaign’s Vague Catchphrases  

November 24th, 2009

It’s time we stop cutting this administration any slack. It’s abused the slack we’ve given for the past ten months. cab drollery: Shut Up! Shut Up! Shut Up! Cut Her Mic!  

Gay Talese describes the tobacco-filled and liquor-drenched newsrooms of The New York Times in the sixties—where men passed out on typewriters, and no one was quite sure just how the paper actually got out. Getting Drunk at The New York Times | Gay Talese | Big Think  

November 23rd, 2009

Millions of copies will be sold of a book written by someone who can’t write, intended for an audience that doesn’t read, about the thoughts of a person who doesn’t think. ginandtacos.com » Blog Archive » GOING ROGUE