Category Archives: 50

Not Getting It

http://wtfqrcodes.com/post/18730127220/my-throat-hurts-from-sighing-the-hardest-ive-ever#notes

The Electoral Map, or Texas Messes with Itself

Don’t Mess with Texas, cause we’ve got all the trouble we can handle just messin’ with our own selves. http://www.lettersfromtexas.com/2012/02/redistricting-status-in-texas-from.html

How Oligarchy Works

I love the punch line at the very end. In case you couldn’t read between the lines. Nudge nudge, wink wink, know wh’a’a mean?

Wisconsin Itself is a Subversive Idea

Somebody ought to look for the actual flag of the state before making comments like this. Via Crooks and Liars, where an interesting video commentary can be seen.

Phone Companies

Sigh… Transcript from an online chat. So far this has cost us several hours and probably a few customers. Please hold for a Verizon Wireless sales representative to assist you with your order. Thank you for your patience. You are now chatting with ‘Lawrence’ Lawrence: Hello. Thank you for visiting our chat service.  May I help…

Boids

  Friend 1: We’re going to count birds  tomorrow. Me: Where I come from, counting birds is very easy this time of year. Friend 2: Because there are so many of them?    

Kosher, Hallal, and Intolerance

An interesting rant at an unlikely site. For those who follow this sort of thing, there is a slowly building “outcry” by some corners that Butterballs Turkeys are Halal. For those unfamiliar with the concept, it means that they are permissible for consumption by religious Muslims. Some people have found this offensive. The thing is,…

The Burzynski Clinic

Someone acting approximately  lawyer defends someone claiming to have a cancer treatment, who charges enormous amounts of money to people for being in clinical trials. These clinical trials have been going on for decades without any published result. It seems to me that charging people to be part of clinical trials is the sort of…

Germany Reconsiders the Growth Imperative

A three part series in Der Spiegel examines the growing disconnect between national growth and national well-being. Excerpts: “Our affluence has quadrupled in the last 40 years. But at what price?” asks Kurt Biedenkopf, a member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the former governor of the eastern state of Saxony. The growth rate…