March 2011
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February 2011
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WatchThursday, February 24, 2011: On The Colbert Report, during an interview with Salon.com’s Glenn Greenwald about Anonymous rival HBGary, a Guy Fawkes mask was very briefly superimposed over Stephen Colbert’s face.
It’s at 3’23.
(via thedailywhat)
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WatchIs it junior prom season already?
My junior prom was awful. I asked the hot girl, Lauren, in my neighborhood to go. She said yes, but I think it was just as a pity yes. After about 30–45 minutes, we left the dance. We watched TV at her place with my friend Chris and his date who I kinda liked. Then I went home and never hung out with Lauren again. One time when I visited the old neighborhood I...
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“All of the Lights” by Portland Cello Project...
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Clueless Economists, Smart Ecologists →
Gus Speth, the ecologist who founded the World Resources Institute and for ten years served as Administrator of the United Nations Development Program, directs attention to the upstream system causes of environmental and social breakdown. He prescribes a thoroughgoing cultural and institutional transformation. His recommendations reach far beyond budget tweaks to address values and power.
Speth...
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US Uncut →
Enjoying record profits and taxpayer-funded bailouts as the economy slowly recovers from a financial crisis, nearly two-thirds of US corporations don’t pay any income taxes, instead opting to abuse tax loopholes and offshore tax havens. According to this study from the non-partisan Government Accountability Office, 83 of the top 100 publicly traded corporations that operate in the US exploit...
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“There Is a Mountain” by Donovan
The Allman...
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Be positive; increase negativity.
“It could be worse.”
I hear that a lot. And think it works, too. Like when the significant other texts something passive aggressive, I think: at least we’re not meth addicts with six kids, horrendous debt, poor taste in music and an abortion on the way. Or when the ticketing network at work fails, I consider the infrastructure of the United States and what a cataclysmic earthquake off the coast...
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The rise and rise of the cognitive elite →
Jan Pen, a Dutch economist who died last year, came up with a striking way to picture inequality. Imagine people’s height being proportional to their income, so that someone with an average income is of average height. Now imagine that the entire adult population of America is walking past you in a single hour, in ascending order of income.
The first passers-by, the owners of loss-making...
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WatchYou should watch all of these.
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On Abortion and “Respectful Disagreement” →
Even if all women had access to education, birth control, healthcare, and social programs, there would still be women who get pregnant and don’t want to be. There would still be ectopic pregnancies, failed sterilizations, severe fetal abnormalities, and women whose organs start failing as a result of pregnancy. There would still be women whose birth control fails and they find themselves pregnant...
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“Om du lämnade mig nu (If You Left Me Now)”...
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