America’s War on the Overweight Practically the minute President Obama announced Regina M. Benjamin, a zaftig doctor who also has an M.B.A. and is the recipient of a MacArthur “genius grant,” as a nominee for the post of Surgeon General, the criticism started. The attacks were vicious—Michael Karolchyk, owner of a Denver “anti-gym,” told Fox [...]

Straw Dogs is probably one of my favorite flicks, ever. It peels away the layers of human weakness in all sorts of fucked up ways. The film does move a bit slowly, but is worth the wait (kinda like Caché, but less so). I’m not quite in the mood to b-b-break it down, so I [...]

Little guy gets stuck with homeless camp in Sacramento: “Merin said he has no ‘animus’ toward Hernandez. He called it a coincidence that he had filed the prior suit against Hernandez and now has sited a homeless camp behind his home.” I’m not sure if it’s more in poor taste or simply unprofessional to single [...]

Why Craigslist Is Such a Mess The axioms of this worldview are easy to state. “People are good and trustworthy and generally just concerned with getting through the day,” Newmark says. If most people are good and their needs are simple, all you have to do to serve them well is build a minimal infrastructure [...]

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Philospher Zero: “Reality can’t lie. A thing either is, or it is not. And whatever it is, unless it is sentient and deceptive, cannot be hidden from observation. Reality does not bend, nor does it (or can it) use symbolic manipulation to deceive. Perceptions, however, can deceive. The nature of human perceptual frameworks and mechanisms [...]

Trends over the last 200 years – in the economy, technology, and society – clearly point to the decade between 2015 and 2025 as heralding a similar economic and exploration boom as the 1960s, accompanied by a Camelot-style zeitgeist.When the 1960s wave of space exploration is viewed in the context of other major science, technology, [...]

Ted Kennedy is dead. He probably did more damage to this country in all his years of service through liberal asshattery than anyone else I can think of. However, his flagrant give-a-fuck attitude always warmed my heart. Not enough to make me respect the man in any sort of professional sense, of course, but in [...]