The maps of St. Louis and Detroit remind me of John Hodgman's quip about Kansas City in "The Areas of My Expertise," in that "No further progress will be undertaken."
As in no further progress from 1964.
As in no further progress from 1964.
Ahem, that creature is 18inches long, and it's scary, jagged teeth were subdued with a rubber band. I've seen pigeons that were more menacing.
It's an impressive feat to channel both Donald Rumsfeld and Spiro Agnew in the same breath.
Soon, I expect we'll see the WaPo print retrospectives on the Pentagon Papers themselves, explaining they too were really more hype than genuine substance, and that most of the papers were just dirty jokes and limericks written on napkins by Nixon.
P.S. We were never at war with Eurasia.
Soon, I expect we'll see the WaPo print retrospectives on the Pentagon Papers themselves, explaining they too were really more hype than genuine substance, and that most of the papers were just dirty jokes and limericks written on napkins by Nixon.
P.S. We were never at war with Eurasia.
The Awl sheds some light on the AIA's direct contribution to architecture, which begins to explain their contorted sense of aesthetics.
@Matt Cherette: And apparently they're run by the GNAA too (which you'll have Google, not repeating it here).
Not sure which is funnier, the group named Goatse or the possibility this is all an amusing hoax.
Not sure which is funnier, the group named Goatse or the possibility this is all an amusing hoax.
@ss_1318: But the passive voice is considered Protected Speech, and it mustn't be trampled down by any reckless, transitive verbs.
While Philbin's article may tell me watching soccer is seditious, his FB profile image is telling me he is prone to such outbursts, and that the polite thing to do is to not stare at him.
Hard to speculate which is more disturbing, that the Facebook CEO enthusiastically supports Illuminati-style secret societies, or that the real Illuminati who govern the planet are populated and run by arrogant nitwits like Zuckerberg.
I fear what Darwinism, social or otherwise, has in store for our species.
@howdini: What, so you mean you don't keep your powdered sugar arranged in neat little lines on the table too? Is it just me then?
@Valkyrie607: Possibly, but then you would only have a disaster comparable to <a href=" [en.wikipedia.org]"Ixtoc I, which actually spilled far more oil than what we witness now. The dispersants, in the volume they're being deployed, seem to be doing a wonderful job of suspending oil throughout the water column, not just at the surface.
Reminds me of that saying about good intentions and Hell.
Reminds me of that saying about good intentions and Hell.
The proposal to seal the well with a small nuke buried in the sea floor, which could have been pulled off possibly w/in a week of the spill starting, was quite possibly the only option that could have prevented oil reaching the shore. That said, I would never advocate using a nuke like that, to give you an impression of how fucked up the whole situation looks to me.
I'm furthermore thrilled to read how injecting massive quantities of dispersant into the oil stream near the well head itself appears to be emulsifying the oil, and causing it to be suspended in huge (miles wide), invisible plumes below the water surface. So, what you're seeing floating on wave tops and washing up ashore now may only be a small fraction of the total oil so far injected into the water column.
My question is: if your intent was to kill the biosphere in the Gulf as cheaply as possibly (nukes are very expensive, for example), would you have acted differently?
I'm furthermore thrilled to read how injecting massive quantities of dispersant into the oil stream near the well head itself appears to be emulsifying the oil, and causing it to be suspended in huge (miles wide), invisible plumes below the water surface. So, what you're seeing floating on wave tops and washing up ashore now may only be a small fraction of the total oil so far injected into the water column.
My question is: if your intent was to kill the biosphere in the Gulf as cheaply as possibly (nukes are very expensive, for example), would you have acted differently?
The singular, oversized eyeballs do seem in keeping with the Brits' obsession over surveillance cameras.
@Daisy_Sage: I would visit Galveston, TX as a kid with my family in the 80's. Scenic beachside city, but right next to country's most dangerous (and appropriately named) refinery town, Texas City. For many years I thought it was completely natural that if you dug your toe deep enough into beach sand, it would come out covered in oil tar. I believe the next generation of kids in the Gulf states will grow up with the same misperception.
"Going a couple years without a bonus isn't a big deal to me. You can survive on $3 million a year, $3-4 million a year. It's not that tough."
If I were, hypothetically of course, to attempt survival on a far smaller figure, say 0.5% of $3Mill per year, does that mean I would have no choice but to resort to cannibalism? Preferably, cannibalism of folks like Immelt. In which case, I think I'm fine with that, actually.
All of this is hypothetical, of course.
If I were, hypothetically of course, to attempt survival on a far smaller figure, say 0.5% of $3Mill per year, does that mean I would have no choice but to resort to cannibalism? Preferably, cannibalism of folks like Immelt. In which case, I think I'm fine with that, actually.
All of this is hypothetical, of course.
@Unsolicited Advice: I would actually be more alarmed at the prospect of Southern fundis taking note of the sky on fire and then proceed with the Apocalypse as rehearsed.
@sarrible: Oy, that one about the Virgin Queen is about as true as that one about VA never tainting itself with slavery during the Confederate years.
Thank heavens Cuccinelli saved Virginia from the fair (yet sinister) sex. Had this gone on much longer without redress, people might start buying into oultandish myths such as the whole state being named after a woman.
I'm mystified why, of all the people one may look up in the aftermath of a bombing attempt like this, you contact an obvious, attention-seeking troll like Younas/Joseph. I think it surprises no one that he would happily spout juicy retorts in exchange for coverage.
An unsettling thought is that I would have just as readily expected the "Darwinist faggot" quip to slip from the lips of a fully home-grown creationist.
