God Awful Things

I can’t even hear what this lady(?) is saying over the noise of her eyebrows.

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Funny, I wasn’t thinking this would be the subject of my first post-holiday post, but having just heard on NPR about our Mayor talking to congress about the new full body scanners.  Having seen the images (which leave nothing to the imagination) I thought “Welp.. Gonna get a lot of pedophile screeners at the airport [...]

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Over at The New Scientist, they’ve got a nice little article about then things humans do that we don’t really understand why we do it. 1. Blushing: Even Darwin struggled to explain why we would evolve a response that lets others know that we have cheated or lied. I think this is easy, blushing was [...]

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Those who know me surely know that I am a bit of on amateur economist… and full time liar. Brad DeLong has written up a nice FAQ over on his blog about the Geithner Plan to purchase the distressed assets and all.. It’s a good read, but we know what will always jump out at [...]

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Voting went smoothly today, I had the sample ballot filled out and was ready to cruise through it.. i removed the cap from the ink-a-vote pen and placed the ballot in the receptacle when a poll worker turned on the radio, which was a bit surprisingly in the quiet polling location of the Barlow Respitory [...]

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George Saunders, over at The New Yorker: There are two kinds of folks: Élites and Regulars. Why people love Sarah Palin is, she is a Regular. That is also why they love me. She did not go to some Élite Ivy League college, which I also did not. Her and me, actually, did not go [...]

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Can I just mention how dumb the notion of dropping the national gas tax is? that’ll save you 18 cents a gallon, thats like 2 bucks per 10 gallons.. except IT WONT EVEN SAVE YOU THAT. You know what lowering the price of a good does? It increases demand, you know what happens when demand [...]

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