February 2012
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December 2011
2 posts
Twitter cookie! http://t.co/oWdHpSyH
Pretty crappy day for NBA guards with bad knees. #SayYourPrayersRayAllen
November 2011
11 posts
I <3 the library + technology. Online request -> email notification -> 3 minute walk -> pickup from hold shelf -> self checkout. So easy!
“I think it’s about time we redefine what “patriotic” is, because it’s not about...”
– sirmitchell (via grapelet)
Send Winter Weather Gear to the Occupations: http://t.co/evJMItL7. I just donated $500. #OccupyWallSt #OWS #OccupyWinter
Why is the Dept. of Homeland Security wasting time/resources coordinating violent crackdowns on #OccupyWallSt? http://t.co/3hOPH8sE
RT @juliacreinhart: #ows protester: “the cops have occupied #Zuccotti Park, we’re just trying to figure out what their demands are …”
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This is the day we pretend we haven't already...
Picture a high school senior watching the WTC towers fall in 2011. Horrified but soon resolute, he applies to West Point, and despite the competition, he gets in. He starts at the academy in fall of 2002. Four hard years later, he graduates and starts active service as a 2nd Lieutenant. It’s summer 2006, so it’s no surprise that he’s deployed to Iraq. Maybe he would have only...
“What has happened over the past 30 years is the capture of the world’s common...”
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George Monbiot has some stern words for the rich (via birdlord)
Let’s recap that last part for the TLDR crowd: measuring in terms of ability to buy (the time and sweat of) other people, the richest person to live since Jesus is alive today.
RT @flossofer: Why #OccupyWallStreet? Bill Moyers:”They are occupying Wall Street because Wall Street has occupied America.” Can’t say i …
RT @AnonyOps: That’s pretty convincing. RT @Anonmedics #Video proof that #OPD is infiltrating #OccupyOakland: http://t.co/3Fj6MYZv
October 2011
24 posts
“The only people…scared of the “violent mobs” at #OccupyWallSt are the people being paid to call them violent mobs.” http://t.co/Z7G1uJuq
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“20 years ago the 10 largest banks on the Street held 10% of America’s total bank assets. Now they hold over 70%.” - @RBReich #OccupyWallSt
“The Occupy movement is powerful, not because it is fighting for the rights of a...”
– Van Jones
“They’re not mad that these people are rich; they’re mad that these people stole their money.” Wonderfully succinct, @mtaibbi. #OccupyWallSt
RT @HuffingtonPost: Which big bank backed out of a fundraiser after finding out #occupywallstreet was an honoree? http://t.co/38ZXEMkA
Steve Jobs was initially opposed to apps, new... →
It’s worth noting that Jobs wasn’t always prescient. In this case, he actively fought against the aspect of the iPhone that has in fact been its biggest selling point. Not the biggest deal, since he eventually got over it, but interesting nonetheless.
What happens if you try to read the Constitution aloud as your rights are violated? Interesting read: http://t.co/OZUB8WLF
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RT @TheOnion: Nation Waiting For Protesters To Clearly Articulate Demands Before Ignoring Them #OccupyWallStreet http://t.co/ZVmpINnw
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The lump of unfairness fallacy
Once you understand that the problem is a fairness issue rather than a dollars-and-cents issue, the policy space grows wider. Holding constant the level of expenditure, one can make bail-outs more or less fair by the degree to which you demand sacrifice from the people you are bailing out. TARP was deeply stupid not because it meant socializing risks and costs created by bankers. TARP was...
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Best answer ever
STEVE KORNACKI, Salon.com: you’re distinguishing yourself as basically the only Republican I can think of who’s had something nice to say about Occupy Wall Street …
BUDDY ROEMER, GOP PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Yeah, one of the Republican candidates called them un-American.
KORNACKI: …where does your perspective on this come from?
ROEMER: It comes from being 68 years old and loving America.
Krugman: Panic of the Plutocrats →
What’s going on here? The answer, surely, is that Wall Street’s Masters of the Universe realize, deep down, how morally indefensible their position is. They’re not John Galt; they’re not even Steve Jobs. They’re people who got rich by peddling complex financial schemes that, far from delivering clear benefits to the American people, helped push us into a crisis whose aftereffects continue to...
“If the people who were supposed to fix our financial system had actually done...”
– Jon Stewart, right about everything ever.
Douglas Rushkoff: Think Occupy Wall St. is a... →
Great piece. My favorite part:
Anyone who says he has no idea what these folks are protesting is not being truthful. Whether we agree with them or not, we all know what they are upset about, and we all know that there are investment bankers working on Wall Street getting richer while things for most of the rest of us are getting tougher. What upsets banking’s defenders and politicians...
Before saying #iamthe53 look at the 10th graph: % of fed. tax revenue from indiv income, payroll, and corp taxes - http://t.co/xPYP9DE1 #OWS
RT @joeyoga: They only call it class warfare when we fight back #occupywallstreet
RT @SenatorSanders: If a financial institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist. #OccupyWallStreet #OccupyWallSt
July 2011
3 posts
Score Wars
Hope Solo: I'm captain* of the USA women's soccer team. Carli here tells me you're lookin' to bandwagon to the World Cup Finals?
Every-Wan: Yes indeed, if it's a good team.
Hope Solo: Good team? You've never heard of USA women's soccer?
Every-Wan: Should I have?
Hope Solo: It's the team that won the 1999 World Cup in 5 to 4 penkicks. I've blocked Brazilian breakaway shots. Not the bulky cruising midfielders mind you, I'm talking about the big-time Canarinhas now. It's good enough for you old men. Who's the bandwagon?
Every-Wan: All the sports fans. Myself, the girls, two (locked out) leagues... and no questions asked.
Hope Solo: [chuckles] What is it? Some kind of local trouble?
Every-Wan: Let's just say we'd like to avoid watching baseball.
*Not actually captain, but whatever.
“Of all the sins,envy is easily the worst because you can’t even have any...”
– Charlie Munger, Berkshire Hathaway guy
June 2011
2 posts
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Instant Foodie menu →
May 2011
5 posts
“Murdering a journalist is easier than running a red light in Iraq.”
– Muhammad al-Qaisi, Iraqi freelance reporter - as reported in Iraq’s News Media After Saddam: Liberation, Repression, and Future Prospects.
Good thing we’ve spent a trillion dollars on that war, right? Because it’s working? Because wars make things better?
“There comes before us, now and then, a case whose proper outcome is so clearly...”
– So we’re clear: Justice Scalia has officially given up on strict constuctionism. Brown v. Playa, 563 U.S. ____, *59 (2011) (Scalia, J., dissenting)
Let’s see. The FBI conducts surveillance that, at least 15 years ago, would have been obviously, unquestionably, indisputably illegal (today it’s still pretty obvious, but there are some who dispute that). So now some FBI lawyer wrote a memo inventing a justification for the (warrantless, processless, oversight-less) surveillance, which the DOJ Office of Legal Counsel agreed with in a...
Netflix on the nexus s. + 4g + reckless disregard for safety = I can watch the office in the car on the way to the office.
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April 2011
6 posts
Day 1.