So, FfaF is still lacking in food. I just don’t have any ideas about what I want to eat all the time or what you all want to eat all the time. Cheese was out there for a while, but wow, that’s a huge category. So, you know, still working on that.
Meanwhile!
- Meowmania!
Speaking of cats, would you like one? I have several spare. Like, 6 spare, plus several two-day old kittens that will be ready for homes in a few weeks. Help me not become a crazy cat lady, please!
- Harrison Bergeron, by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal.
- Israel and the Surrender of the West, by Shelby Steele:
It doesn’t matter that much of the world may actually know better. This template has become propriety itself, a form of good manners, a political correctness. Thus it is good manners to be outraged at Israel’s blockade of Gaza, and it is bad manners to be outraged at Hamas’s recent attack on a school because it educated girls, or at the thousands of rockets Hamas has fired into Israeli towns—or even at the fact that Hamas is armed and funded by Iran. The world wants independent investigations of Israel, not of Hamas.
- Long-exposure photography
- How to Drink Like Mad Men: the rules, the booze, the gear and the recipes. I’d just like to take this opportunity to say, “Ha! Tanqueray! IN YOUR FACE, SKILLZY!”
That right there is not an example of being smooth like a mad man or like Joan Holloway, but it felt good.
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Related:
- Toward an Entitlement Society. What do you think?
- A Brief History of Computer Icons
- Diversity and the Myth of White Privilege
- How to Wear White, tips from 1948
- A Brief Flowchart History of Lolcats
- From Apollo, Five Second Film: Hipster Superman
- One man’s thoughts on the redefinition of the word “justice.” I think a lot of what he has to say has merit, especially this:
When someone is trying to change the meaning of a word, it pays to perk up one’s ears and ask why.
- Via Honu Girl, Whooping Cough: Back with a Vengeance.
California’s epidemic has blossomed in a state that gives some of the most generous “personal belief exemptions” from vaccination — and the epidemic’s worst hot spots neatly correlate with the most concentrated areas of vaccine refusal.
Just like the measels!
- Are you a cosmetics hoarder? Here’s a handy checklist. I’m not. I can’t imagine buying pretty makeups and not using them!
- Why Edward Cullen Sparkles: A Scientific Paper of True Facts of Science.
- The Year America Dissolved
When hubris sent America in pursuit of overseas empire, the venture coincided with the offshoring of American manufacturing, industrial, and professional service jobs and the corresponding erosion of the government’s tax base, with the advent of massive budget and trade deficits, with the erosion of the fiat paper currency’s value, and with America’s dependence on foreign creditors and puppet rulers.
Phew. Little political today. But boozy, with a tasty Harry Potter finish.
To the “country of entitlement” thing: I’ve been saying since we hit the “bad finanical times” people have been going through that there ARE jobs available, it’s just a matter of sucking it up and doing those jobs. The only people who want those jobs, or really who are willing to work those jobs, are immigrants (illegal or otherwise) and the occasional high school student. People on unemployment are making more money per hour than many people who do the jobs lowest on the totem pole, and they see no reason to not be on unemployment but want the right to complain about being jobless.
I punch them in the face!
Fuck yeah “Harrison Bergeron”! I think about that shit all the time!
I am doing the same thing with “Mad Men” that I tried to do with “Sopranos” which is avoid anything and everything that might spoil the storyline should the day ever come that I want to actually finish watching the show.
Sarah we will get together soon for gin drinks. It’ll happen.
In the scientific article on “Twilight” they refer to the fact that vampires reproduce using “horizontal gene transfer.” I read that and thought it was a clever euphemism for making sex like SOOKEH and BEEEEL but no, apparently it isn’t. Sad.
The literal HP trailer made me have to close my office door so everyone wouldn’t know I was laughing my ass off and not working.
I will gladly put some Tanqueray in my face if you’re buying! I’m not anti-Tanqueray, it’s just not my first choice. Those poor saps back in the Mad men days didn’t even have Bombay Sapphire, which explains their choice in gin.
As far as that article, Canadian Club? Really? They still make that? Sorry, Canada’s not the first place I think of when someone mentions whiskey. They were making it in Scotland and Ireland when there were still mastodons in Canada.