2008

Oct

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Political Correctness Gone Mad
Oct 11th
Warch Watch
Zombies in Plain English
Oct 9th

Will al Qaeda try to influence the...

In 2004 Osama bin Laden released a tape shortly before the elections bashing George Bush.  The Bush...
Oct 6th
“Finally, at long last, I have something in common with...”
— Spying on a Sportswriter by...
Oct 2nd
Warch Watch
Sports As Battleground For Dissent: Dave Zirin talks about his new book A People’s History of...
Oct 2nd

Sep

Mosque in Ohio gassed
Sep 29th
Warch Watch
I Hate Banks - By Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper
Sep 27th
Warch Watch
I am a Scientist - Guided By Voices
Sep 27th
BuyMyShitPile.com: Hey Washington, can you...
Sep 24th
The cost of ending hunger around the world:...
Sep 22nd
Red staters scare more easily than blue...
Sep 22nd

McCain has a lot of experience with bank...

but it’s not the good kind. You’re John McCain, a fallen hero who wanted to become...
Sep 16th
Warch Watch
I, for one welcome our new wind powered overlords.
Sep 16th
My Hobby:  Sitting down with grad students and timing how...
Sep 13th
Warch Watch
Country Music Stars Commemorate 9/11 With Patriotic New Song ‘Bomb New York’
Sep 12th
Warch Watch
Get Your War On is animated!
Sep 11th
What's the difference between Palin and...
Sep 10th
“On another occasion, a robot was locked in a room and forced...”
— MIT Fraternity Accused Of...
Sep 9th
“The torture that was deployed against McCain emerges in all...”
— Does Bush Believe McCain Was...
Sep 9th
Warch Watch
Dwight Schrute speaks to the RNC.
Sep 5th

Aug

Jack Bauer is so tough that ...

the lawyers designing interrogation techniques cited Jack Bauer more frequently than the...
Aug 26th
A photo of Senator Robert F. Kennedy with a bellboy trying...
Aug 18th

The Definition of Irony

“It was just interesting to me that here we are trying to promote peace and harmony and we’re...
Aug 17th
“For these reasons, we should be on our guard not to...”
— -Albert Einstein in “Why...
Aug 16th
They don’t make them like they used to. At the 1968...
Aug 16th
“But what is perhaps more deeply evil and unforgiveable in...”
— Hendrik Hertzberg: RACE, LIES,...
Aug 8th
“The Financial Times is doing what it usually does -...”
— The Opposite of Science
Aug 1st

Jul

“I should say that the place where I am most feared and...”
— -Noam Chomsky
Jul 29th
“Borrowers who are in trouble on their mortgages have seen...”
— Fair Game - Borrowers and...
Jul 21st
“This handout from the SEC can be real money. For example,...”
— Dean Baker
Jul 21st
Warch Watch
Trailer for Sleepwalking Through The Mekong 
Jul 8th
Warch Watch
Video for Sni Bong by Dengue Fever
Jul 8th
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Bush Tours America To Survey Damage Caused By His Disastrous Presidency
Jul 4th
“The United States have adventured upon a great and noble...”
— President John Tyler in a...
Jul 4th

Jun

“The result is a group of unlikely-sounding Husseins: Jewish...”
— Obama Supporters Take His...
Jun 29th
Seven Steps to a Cooler You
Jun 29th
Pastor Who Officiated at Jenna Bush Wedding...
Jun 27th
Warch Watch
John McCain called his wife what? 
Jun 21st
“I hated the gooks. I will hate them as long as I live.”
— Sen. John McCain
Jun 21st
Warch Watch
From Brighton MA Mr. Lif - Live from the Plantation
Jun 20th
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From Brighton UK Evilnine - Crooked with Aesop Rock
Jun 20th
Speaking Ill of the Dead
Jun 20th
The Celtics are a good team, no doubt.  Too bad they represent Boston.  
Jun 18th
Bumper stickers reveal link to road rage :...
Jun 17th
“‘I think (Obama) just wants to be president...
Jun 10th
Warch Watch
A scene from Jesus Camp. Christian nationalists/fundamentalists were blowing things up (e.g. federal...
Jun 10th
“Since the vast majority of economists failed to recognize...”
— Financial Bubbles, Recessions...
Jun 6th

May

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WALTZ WITH BASHIR From Haaretz:  A daring new animated documentary follows Israeli director Ari...
May 28th
John Hagee is from San Antonio. Which probably makes him a Spurs fan. I wonder if he thinks the...
May 25th
“From 1995 to 2005, 25% of start-up engineering and...”
— The Amazing Diaspora...
May 25th
Warch Watch
The Dhamma Brothers Trailer
May 22nd
“Over 70 years ago in Manchester, New Hampshire, children...”
— Benezet Centre
May 21st
Warch Watch
Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early | The Onion 
May 20th
“Funding for physics increased greatly after World War 2....”
— Physics Education Research: Or...
May 19th
“The student beginning professional training is usually...”
— From DISCIPLINED MINDS by Jeff...
May 17th
How to Bake Fractal Cookies Or you could make a fractal...
May 16th

The physics of chocolate

Chocolate, like steel, has multiple crystal structures.  Unlike steel some of these crystal...
May 15th
John Edwards follows my lead and endorses...
May 15th
Warch Watch
Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros
May 9th
“I actually discovered irony when I was seven. That was when...”
— Morgan Murphy
May 9th
Warch Watch
The Start of Something by Voxtrot  
May 5th
“Semco doesn’t have a mission statement, its own...”
— Workplace democracy in...
May 1st
“What there wasn’t, though, was any use of...”
— May Day 2008: Strike Against...
May 1st

Apr

The recent Pentagon pundit scandal isn’t the first time the U.S. government...
Apr 26th
“As former CNN vice President Frank Sesno stated to...”
— Pentagon Pundits
Apr 23rd
Apr 17th
Warch Watch
More fun with small town America.  The trailer for the new Harold and Kumar movie.
Apr 17th
I really don’t see what’s so wrong with criticizing “small town America.” ...
Apr 16th
“One might say that the last great exercise of New Deal...”
— John W. Dower Hopefully one...
Apr 8th
“Q: Given the differences between Japan and Iraq, could the...”
— Occupation Preoccupation
Apr 8th
“NREL’s research showed that one quad (7.5 billion...”
— UNH Biodiesel...
Apr 1st
“When you have a bejeweled, buckle-shoed duke willing to pay...”
— Report: Nation’s...
Apr 1st

Mar

“In 1963, with the draft board ramping up, Cheney enrolled in...”
— Dick Cheney - Dickipedia
Mar 31st
“Elmer: Can you talk a little bit about your years in the...”
— Violence is the Symptom
Mar 24th
“One of the unique features of China is that, notwithstanding...”
— Martin Jacques: Spotlight on...
Mar 24th
I arrived in New Orleans last Sunday in the afternoon. Rachele and I went to look around the French...
Mar 18th
This is the poster I’m presenting next week in New...
Mar 7th
The Hidden Buddhist Threat In Our Midst
Mar 6th
Warch Watch
George Bush doesn’t care about black people by The Legendary K.O.
Mar 6th

That's one (very) small step for...

A couple of weeks ago in the New York Times there was an article titled Race Matters Less in...
Mar 6th

The Radical Roots of the Republican...

How did the Republican Party go from this: Historians of the Republican Party have not recognized,...
Mar 4th

What should I do in New Orleans?

If you have any suggestions for stuff to see in New Orleans add it to my map.
Mar 4th
Warch Watch
1 70’s Bollywood song + 1 Sri Lankan refugee + 1000 hands of Buddha = Video for Jimmy by...
Mar 2nd

Feb

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Chomsky on Marijuana Why did marijuana come to be criminalized in the U.S.? It’s the same...
Feb 28th

The Socialism of Fools

In 19th century Germany August Bebel, a founder of the SPD, called the tendency to combine populist...
Feb 26th
Warch Watch
Baron Davis hits the game winner vs the Celtics How does he keep doing that? 
Feb 23rd
Warch Watch
Expert On Anteaters Wasted Entire Life Studying Anteaters
Feb 22nd
The Soiling of Old Glory taken by Stanley Forman This...
Feb 21st
“I’ve written about Clinton Rules, under which anything a...”
— Paul Krugman
Feb 21st
Dragon Waiting in Line
Feb 19th
“On June 4, 1989, having heard that the Tiananmen...”
— Confessions: An Innocent Life...
Feb 11th
Warch Watch
“The king stay the king.“  Just finished watching the first season of The Wire this...
Feb 11th
“Kulashekhara was an Indian King from modern day Kerala and...”
— Entry about Kulashekhara from...
Feb 11th
This would not be a huge mistake.
Feb 8th
Warch Watch
Great Dictator (of the Free World) by Kula Shaker.  They’re back from the dead.  What was the...
Feb 8th
The Magnetic Fields - Too Drunk To Dream
Feb 6th
The Financial Times Says That Bankers are Too...
Feb 6th
This morning I voted so that tonight I might sleep the sleep of the just.  Also I didn’t want...
Feb 5th
I say any Super Bowl you make $100 on is a good Super Bowl.
Feb 4th
Warch Watch
The War Prayer by Mark Twain “God’s servant and yours has prayed his prayer. Has he...
Feb 3rd

Jan

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Video for “Cazador” from Pistolera Apparently this song by Pistolera is an...
Jan 30th
Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Deportee)-performed...
Jan 29th

Delusions of Grandeur

Y: Why would someone set a bomb off in front of your house?
R: I think they're trying to send me a message.
Jan 23rd
Explosion under car sets off probe
Jan 23rd
“I am disturbed by how little attention the topic of economic...”
— Martin Luther King III in a...
Jan 22nd
“We must develop a program that will drive the nation to a...”
— Martin Luther King, Jr., On...
Jan 22nd
“Nothing that a candidate has said or done during a campaign,...”
— The 13 Keys to the White...
Jan 20th
This Sunday I won’t be cheering for the San Diego Chargers when they play the New England...
Jan 16th
“Illusions are a favorite tool of perception scientists for...”
— The Moral Instinct
Jan 15th
“Why would otherwise-similar black and white households have...”
— A new way of looking at race...
Jan 15th
“On the Democratic side, John Edwards, although never the...”
— Responding to Recession
Jan 14th
Summer is less than one Friedman Time Unit away.
Jan 14th
Warch Watch
The Malayalee Terminator I guess this kind of like a Malayalam MST3K using Terminator 2. ...
Jan 13th
“EK: I was speaking to another economist about this a while...”
— Ezra Klein and Paul Krugman...
Jan 13th
“In August this year, the officially atheist Chinese regime...”
— Permission to reincarnate,...
Jan 8th
Warch Watch
Wilco - California Stars“Yes, I’d give my life to lay my head tonightOn a bed of...
Jan 8th
“While it’s true that the big three have similar...”
— Note to Iowa: Only One Top Dem...
Jan 5th
Compare the postmodern philosopher Richard Rorty’s ideas about truth: Rorty is very clear:...
Jan 4th
Warch Watch
Feel I’m goin back to Massachusetts I’ve got till Saturday to figure out a way to stay...
Jan 4th
“Greenspan failed disastrously in dealing with the housing...”
— Greenspan and the Housing...
Jan 4th
“The increase in incomes of the top 1 percent of Americans...”
— Report Says That the Rich Are...
Jan 4th
Warch Watch
We used to be friends. Another Dandy Warhols song.  Stuck in my head because I’ve been...