September 2010
August 2010
“Though the Army screens out the seriously obese and completely unfit, it is...”
– NYT: Army revises training to deal with unfit recruits - Health - Fitness - msnbc.com
And lazy reblogging. Let’s not forget lazy reblogging.
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12 panels I want to see at SXSW 2011.
I put a ton of time into reading a ton (over 400 of ~3000 available) of proposals on the SXSW Panel Picker site this year, and it was overwhelming. I don’t know how people do it. I bet I voted for more than 50 of what I read, at which point I was all tuckered out. But, before I retired from my SXSW voting activity, I also wanted to share some of the ones that interested me - in a non...
“Evangelical Christians have won the public-relations war in the United States....”
– Tux Life: Everything That Rises Must Converge, or, How I ‘Got’ Religion on a Friday Afternoon (via Instapaper)
It’s funny to think of it as ironic that fundamentalist Christians are repulsed by fundamentalist Muslims. As Julie reminds me, almost too often, we tend to be triggered by other...
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Synchronicity
Early summer, 1983. I was about to...
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Hurt & Healing, revisited
I just made private my previous post on hurt & healing. I wanted to share it with you guys, and I’m very glad I did, but my kids read this thing occasionally, and I don’t want them stumbling onto that post and being upset by it. They’re still little kids, and even though that was once their life too, it’s a little heavy to re-expose them to it so abruptly and in such...
"Eat, love, fish, swim, boat, hike, nap, nap, nap,...
Julia Roberts should probably play Julie in the movie version of our cathartic, just-ended summer vacation. Beyond the obvious reasons like how similar their names are, there’s the fact that Roberts has recent experience with this type of role- and quality is way more important to me than star power.
I wonder if Brad Pitt could handle playing my role. He does presently have a beard, right?
“The world has actually been wired together by digital communications systems for...”
– 4.12: Mother Earth Mother Board
Vacation reading extraordinaire
It’s a bit absurd, how long it took me to read this truly epic article in its entirety, but a testament to its awesomeness that I persevered.
(via Instapaper)
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Robert Reich: Confessions of a Class Worrier →
From 9 percent in 1980, the top 1 percent’s take has increased to 23.5 percent in 2007. CEOs who in the 1970s took home 40 percent of the compensation of average workers now rake in 350 times. Financiers who forty years ago made only modest fortunes today, even after the Great Recession they helped bring on, routinely earn seven and eight-figures. In 2009, when most of the nation’s middle...
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“It’s become a running joke now, actually. People wear shirts with why they’re...”
– everything in the sky - After the Rapture
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Voting and Consequence
First, my dashboard was all, “You should totally vote!” and then “Whatevs, your vote doesn’t matter!”
Then I was all, “ugh I love my friends and all, but [groannn]… ‘I, too, have opinions pertaining to whether or why there exists a moral obligation to vote!’ [Create post]”
Then Matt was all, “GO ON.”
So I’m all...
Forum sigs LOL.
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I, too, have opinions pertaining to whether and...
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“Quick, somebody reblog this and call me an idiot! Neither of us will ever know...”
– I’m going to just start reblogging all kinds of shit and disagreeing with everything, just to ruin the effectiveness of the validation system entirely.
This is so stupid. All this does is make things worse. It’s easier to destroy than to improve though, right? Just burn it all down,...