NPRs morning edition did a candy-themed example of where income gains in the US have gone in the past umpty something years. Starting with unequal piles, the poorest people have gained 2 pieces of candy corn. The middle class, 18 pieces of candy corn. The very richest people, 500 pieces. (This was impressive, even as an audio effect.) I'm not sure when that big hoard of candy corn is actually going to cause job creation for the poorest Americans, especially when it can make even more money creating jobs in low wage regions. :::::: grumble :::::::

I'm replacing the phrase "job creators" (um, sure?) with "trickle down creators".
So, I read Mark Bittman's article at the Times about how expensive it to feed a family of four and McD's. And I read some good commentary by Amanda Marcotte and the commenters at Pandagon. Mother Jones has a follow up article that makes a good point. However, the quality of the comments there is really knee jerk and judgemental. I've read better.

http://motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2011/10/cooking-really-cheaper-junk-food-mark-bittman#disqus_thread
Saw this on Twitter: Felicia Day
The Guild Codex Halloween outfit is now in stock FYI: halloweencostumes.com/the-guild-code…

(I'd pay a lot more to dress up and look like Felicia if the costume actually made me look like her.)
Bestsellers that were rejected before they were published. (I've read a lot of them, and bet you have, too.)

http://flavorwire.com/216086/10-best-selling-books-that-were-originally-rejected/10
Some nonfiction recommendations to challenge the brain. From Johns Hopkins, found on Reddit.

http://magazine.jhu.edu/2009/08/the-autodidact-course-catalog/
I just find it faintly odd that it's possible to follow the Dalai Lama on twitter. Enlightenment in 152 chars?
Pretty sure Bachmann's "I'm committed" line is going to echo and re-echo in the political blogospher like Howard Dean's maniacal howls. It probably launched thousands of twitter jokes.
Painted the front hall a shade of peach that almost aspires to be canteloupe.
I'm intrigued to see that Congresswoman Maloney and Senator somebody from New Jersey have re-introduced the Equal Rights Amendment to Congress.

More interesting to me to follow as a story than the one who about the Congressman who tweets with his penis.
This is possibly tongue in cheek, but still worth repeating.

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/06/11/reasons-people-were.html

(Poster about reasons people were arrested outside of the G20 meeting, posted on BoingBoing by Cory Doctrow.)
I looked through a bunch of counter-protest signs against Fred Phelps. The "God is love, hate is stupid" is my favorite.

I don't recommend the link for anyone of tender feelings.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-3o-best-anti-westboro-baptist-church-protest-s

Two words :

May. 4th, 2011 01:15 pm
Wading! Pool!
Am wriggling with excitement because the local library is finally sending me Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss.

Am currently surfing through Game of Thrones series, but will put them aside temporarily.
I'm seeing a lot of jokes ridiculing the idea that a rising tide lifts all boats.

I really loved the crack someone made on DailyKos that the current economic plan is "look here's a coupon for a life preserver "

Say the word "voucher" and I can rant for hours!

Daily Kos

Apr. 16th, 2011 10:39 am
Daily Kos does a hate mail roundup. This was their fifth and final paragraph. The one that actually made me chuckle more and clench my fists less.

Since I am most certainly an elitist, I would like to repeat it here for your amusement.

(Describes the fundamentals of authentic hate mail. Number ONE was heavy usage of ALL CAPS.)

Number 5)
"Horrible spelling. I don't mean the sort of typos that plague everyone: I mean spelling in sentence after sentence that would make your young child blush. A good hate mail has so many misspellings that you should not be able to tell if the writer was drunk or sober when they wrote it. Forget basic spellchecking, of the sort present on every goddamn computer on the planet: it is a tool of liberalism. Any fool can write a hate mail, but only a genius can convey their thoughts through a dense fog of misspellings, transpositions, missing apostrophes and incorrect tenses.

Which brings us to our final and most important rule of hate mail: all of this must be done while conveying, through all the spelling mistakes, uppercased letters, disproven claims and imaginary enemies, an absolute sense of superiority. An intellect of my caliber, the sender must imply, does not need to bother themselves with mundanities such as proper spelling, grammar, or reality."
I have too much free time, so I've been enjoying watching the indecisiveness of the potential Republican candidates. Sometimes I check out the Speculatron on HuffPost.
Today, I found this and the last line made me giggle.

Way back in November, Politico and NBC were so sure that they'd have a race on their hands by now that they enthusiastically planned a debate for May. But, as Alex Pareene points out, they've hit a snag because of the lack of "non-ridiculous candidates"

I have a hard time grasping the fact that Newt G. doesn't understand that he comes across as loathsome. I just want to shout "give up now! nobody likes you!" (But I realize that is mean.)

Woot

Mar. 25th, 2011 08:17 am
Our forecast week of solid rain has been interrupted by an unexpected sunny morning. Must go frolic!
Is Elijah Wood getting a TV show? (I just caught a quick glimpse of the promo.)
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