Caption contest
I ran across this photo of VP Joe Biden over at the Wall Street Journal Photo Journal and felt it cried out for captions: My first thought was: “So, whaddya think? Sauteed? Roasted?” ..bruce w..
Archive for February, 2009
OK, this really is scary
Cracked.com has put out one of the frequent lists, this one of “10 Awesome Ads (For Traumatizing Children)” (warning: Cracked tends to use vulgar language a lot). All ten ads were great picks, and several were truly disturbing, but this one (#4) was for me the most frightening: It’s like watching the setup for an […]
Why video games matter
They prepare us for that which is to come: Are Violent Video Games Adequately Preparing Children For The Apocalypse? Heh. ..bruce w..
Why I love the interwebz, part MCXXVI
Things I probably never would have seen without the ‘net: Hat tip to The New Old Thing. ..bruce w..
Why the markets crashed
There’s a great article over at Wired.com by Felix Salmon called “Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall Street”. In it, Salmon traces the history of David X. Li and his Gaussian copula function (see above) that led investment firms worldwide to pour trillions of dollars into complex — and, as it turned out, […]
Play O-Bingo tonight!
American for Tax Reform have released this and three other O-Bingo cards to use during Pres. Obama’s economic address tonight. Fun for the whole family! Hat tip to the American Spectator. ..bruce w..
“Help, help! I’m being repressed!”
As you may (or may) not be aware, a group of students took over a student food court at NYU and issued a list of demands. Gawker gives this brave, revolutionary effort the sensitive, thoughtful treatment it deserves: Brothers and sisters of the proletariat, you must at this very moment drop your bacon egg and […]
“In the black”
For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: “It might have been!” — John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) American Poet For your viewing, with a tip o’ the hat to Phil Plait at Bad Astronomy: The singer/composer/video editor is Marian Call, who has an entire album (“Got To Fly”) in tribute […]
A nation of entitlement-seeking citizens
One of the things that disturbs me the most about Pres. Obama’s campaign and his administration to date is that it appears to be accelerating the trend in US society towards entitlement and government benefits. Of course, this kind of criticism is often seen as a thinly-veiled form of racism and/or classism. Horse crap. I’ve […]
Videos o’ the day
First, courtesy of Wizbang, comes this classic from 30+ years ago, from the movie “Network”: And here’s an equivalent from a few days ago: I’m mad as hell, myself. ..bruce w..
