Lessons in achieving consensus.
I like the twinkles.
Lessons in achieving consensus.
I like the twinkles.
Does pregnancy make women stupid? The sacrifices they make. Fortunately, it seems to be temporary.
This guy needs to turn in his man card:
A man used his cellphone to call from Connors Farm in Danvers at about 7 p.m. Tuesday after he, his wife and two children became lost in the maze, police said.
You’d think his wife would have asked for directions.
…from Captain Kirk:
Don’t compare President Barack Obama to Captain James T. Kirk.
That’s what William Shatner told CNN’s Ali Velshi when asked to respond to suggestions that Obama should act less like “Spock” and more like “Captain Kirk”.
Shatner said the comparisons are “unfair” because “Mr. Obama has the onerous burden of obeying the constitution [and] Captain Kirk was captain of everybody’s fate. He was a dictator”.
Funny, I hadn’t noticed that he was all that concerned about that pesky document, myself.
Don’t try this at home, kids — a chili contest sends two people to the hospital.
[Via Geek Press]
A report from the front lines:
In truth, those camped out in Zuccotti Park are running a commune more than a protest. They have established a small communitarian village, which is punctuated by a small cabal of the angry, the insane, and the ignorant. Nothing I have seen is representative of a serious movement, and even less is indicative of any substantive thought. John Maynard Keynes is nowhere to be seen; instead, Occupy Wall Street has become an irresistible magnet for performance artists with generic grievances, and those who consider Stéphane Hessell’s absurd pamphlet, Indignez vous!, to be a serious rallying cry. So prevalent are these types, in fact, that a significant portion of those in attendance might as well be wearing t-shirts announcing, I’m Only Here For The Drum Circle And Organic Arugula.
As he says, they’re not the 99%. They’re not even the one percent.
[Update a while later]
The children of la revolucion are eating their own.
Do they know something we don’t?
I’m not sure that the conclusion follows from this paper.
I haven’t checked all the math, though.
[Update a while later]
Isn’t it funny how a common word can start to look really weird, even foreign and meaningless, when you see it enough times?