March 2010
31 posts
“Earlier this week Gawker held an online vote to pick the replacement for the...”
– Brownstoner: Closing Bell: So Long, Hipster
Why Strong Female Characters Are Bad for Women →
Pretty much, yeah.
Facebook’s Plan To Automatically Share Your Data...
Of course they’re doing it again.I doubt they ever stopped. People just don’t care enough about it to make them quit. http://www.11digitprime.com/post/475890699
Stuff on Your Food
I’m not a particularly scared person about what I ingest, but this is a little gross. The full list of fruits and vegetables and their ranking here —> 47 Fruits and Veggies.
I’ll also note that my dad used to sell pesticides in his job, which was petrochemicals, and my uncle was a crop sprayer his whole life. Pesticides of large-scale agriculture are often oil by-products,...
National Social Worker Month
Social Workers might be some of the most crazy people I know. I’m related to some of them. I work with others. This is an excerpt from a social worker I know talking about the sorts of patients she sees every day.
…Maybe someone with mental health issues, someone so depressed they have difficulty getting up in the morning. Or maybe someone whose substance abuse has cost them their...
It's not morning unless something goes wrong
This morning, I wrestled the dog into his leash after chasing him around for 10 minutes, becoming increasingly loud and incoherent.
Exhausted, we went for a short walk. That’s when I discovered there was a hole in my pants. I might have been mad, but it was already the second pair of pants this morning. A rather important button fell off the first pair.
A bit later, I managed to leave for...
WatchConservative Libertarian | The Daily Show | Comedy Central
Jon Stewart is good at pointing out logical fallacies.
This is why I hate politics. I doubt conservative or liberal fits me or fits a lot of people. Attaching names to things - conservative libertarian, communist, socialist - it allows people to point fingers and inappropriately pigeonhole everyone. And it misses what people really...
This is a real magazine --> Garden & Gun: Soul of... →
I’m speechless, somewhat horrified and yet curiously unsurprised by the kind of things the South continues to churn out.
Cardinal Brady will not resign over abuse... →
The defenses that I’m hearing from clergy about this are very reminiscent of Eichmann in Jerusalem.
Of course it was serious … BUT … It wasn’t my job! I was doing my job! I thought I was doing the right thing! I was told to! How was I supposed to know?! I gave my information to my superiors! It wasn’t up to me! It wasn’t that bad! I would have gotten in...
“I work with children a lot and some of them think milk comes from a tiger or a...”
– BBC News - The rise of lazy foods
Why would kids know about food unless they’d seen a food item produced?
This article is rather over the top in its tendency to laugh at specific “lazy” food items, but as it does point out that grocery stores in general creates lazy food. We...
The Hard and the Soft of the Norwegians →
I swear, I’m never going to whine about anything ever again. Ever.
Fear & Loathing On Sesame Street
pbh3:
We can’t stop here… this is Cookie Monster country!
“The new antinucleus, discovered at RHIC’s STAR detector, is a negatively charged...”
– From two-trillion-degree heat, researchers create new matter — and new questions
You don’t often get to say “anti-strange quark.”
me: http://gofugyourself.celebuzz.com/go_fug_yourself/2010/03/oscarballot2010.html
Jeff: !!
me: I know!!!!!
Jeff: hahahahahaha Lucida Console
me: I voted for Comic Sans
Jeff: I voted for Papyrus. Both need to die.
me: you would rather the world continue to be subjected to Comic Sans over Papyrus? I DON'T KNOW YOU ANYMORE.
Jeff: hahaha. I figured enough people would vote for Comic Sans, so I might as well toss one to another eyesore just to get the dig in.
“Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.”
– Harry S Truman, Lecture at Columbia University 4-28-59
The State of Texas: Third-World Justice →
Yeowch. This is just depressing.
Bluebonnet Cam - Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower... →
Geeking out on upcoming wildflowers here. It’s the one thing that sort of reconciles me to the end of winter and the upcoming Death Valley-esque summer.
An hourly pictorial update on bluebonnets growing at the Wildflower Center.
