… For and Acted Upon Through Diversions might be the most singularly relaxing album I’ve listened to in quite some time. Venice Is Drowning’s Azar comes close (although it does have vocals). Both are complex and not entirely “soft” (although neither goes batshit punk-rock hard either). I’ve also been jamming out to Black Moth Super [...]

… you’re naughty. (NSFW probably)

Cops help dream up high-tech police car “I don’t see any downside to this car,” said Carl Latorre, a Pennsylvania State Police dispatcher who served 35 years as a Philadelphia police officer. “I am so excited about this car. This car rates up there with cops carrying automatic weapons to combat what the criminals carry [...]

He’s one of my favorite actors (hardcore man-crush you could say) and this is fucking hilarious. From what I understand, some actors are very intense and he tends to be more so than some others. Does this qualify as prima donna behavior? Would he act like this if he weren’t one of the biggest and [...]

i was watching a documentary on HBO this morning about a woman from Australia who was apparently caught smuggling a huge 10 pound bag of weed into Indonesia inside a boogie-board bag. trust me when you see the pictures of it, you cant help but notice that you have that much pot just magically appear [...]

I found this blog post about my current philosophy professor. His thesis was titled Nozick’s Non-Libertarianism in Anarchy, State and Utopia: A Reconstruction. Which sounds interesting to me because: First, Nozick’s attempt to cloak the libertarian argument in the mantle of Locke and Kant does not work. And second, when corrections are made it turns [...]

I still find it offensive that there are any bonuses whatsoever simply because a bonus is something you recieve when you do a good job and your company is able to distribute its profits amongst its successful executives. The fact that there are bailouts period are indicative of a job poorly done. A bonus is [...]

Eroding our intellectual infrastructure The University of Florida has reached that point. The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has been told to cut 10% from its budget. Since the biggest chunk of any university’s budget is salaries, that means a lot of people are going on the chopping block — and the administration has [...]