December 2008
36 posts
Apple is so fucked.
muppetpants:
Windows 7 is amazing. Now if they can make it so I can make a Zune I can sync without their propriatary software I’ll never have to touch any shitty Apple stuff again.
keep dreaming
Rerun
beansy:
It’s back. The pain under my left rib. In true form, it disappeared for about a week and a half and it snuck back into the mix slowly the past couple of days. I was awake all night last night thinking about this pain: what could it be? Where is it? What organ is hurting exactly? My heart? My stomach? I was spinning all night long. I am in this all too familiar state of wired slash...
The NonSociety Trucker Hat →
frangry:
Like most ‘trends’ these three talk about, it’s about 10 years too late.
hideous
The Fundamental Fallacy of Expertise
jeffmiller:
I don’t really believe in Global Warming Climate Change.[1] Yes, I’m aware of the “studies” and the “consensus” and the long list of credentialed and honored experts that argue that the debate is over. I think they are probably all wrong. It’s not that I’ve studied all the data. (I haven’t). It’s not that I’m trained in climatology. (I’m not). I guess I’m operating mostly on a...
Sam in the hospital. Yay drugs! →
Still on that soda tax
robot-heart:
squashed:
Jeff Miller compares the tax to a premarital sex tax, which many would object to.
If sex and economics were related, we could talk about this. However, sex — unlike food — isn’t necessarily driven by economics. We could talk about how contraceptive methods, protection and education are driven by economics, and explain how negative effects of pre-marital sex are...
Behavior and Taxes
jeffmiller:
robot-heart:
The medical cost of obesity in this country is almost $80 billion/year. If you consider just how many of those people are poor and either uninsured or receive government aid for healthcare, you can begin to see how the financial burden of health problems related to obesity and to poor diet generally cost the government and the American people. Encouraging healthier...
God damn it! what the fuck are we doing?! →
“This problem is larger than Goldman Sachs,” Doggett said. “With the right hand out begging for bailout money, the left is hiding it offshore.”
“As Warren said when introducing the president, “No man in history, no world...”
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Dubya deserves our scorn for most of what his administration has done, but he deserves real praise for what he’s done in Africa.
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i couldnt hear the media over the bombing and gun shots.
“jeffmiller has been myopicly interpreting quotes in the worst light lately.”
– nyquil and cigarettes
Perhaps. But perhaps politicians are actually saying some pretty stupid things in their frenzy to dole out taxpayer money to friendly interests. And when I take those stupid things and extract them from the whole, it’s misleading only in the sense of, “Hey, Barney Frank said...
“[I]t’s hardly the American way to just let people go bankrupt.”
– Barney Frank
Compare this to the United States Constitution, Article I, Section 8: ”The Congress shall have Power To … establish … uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States.”
Let me suggest that it is, very much, the American way to let people go bankrupt. Bankruptcy...
In which I reveal a new hat
squashed:
Following a number of other questions on weightloss and what sizes people should wear, Julia Allison asked her male readers, “Do women worry too much about their bodies?”
JGH’s response included, “TOP BEFORE POSTING THIS NONSENSE AND THINK ABOUT HOW MAYBE, JUST MAYBE YOU’RE CONTRIBUTING TO THE PATRIARCHAL SYSTEM BY ASKING THESE QUESTIONS IN THE FIRST PLACE.”
I’m glad to see somebody...
Stay Classy, Soderbergh
jeffmiller:
Here’s Steven Soderbergh, explaining the allure of Che Gueva:
“We’re certainly seeing the result of what happens when you make profit the point of everything, where money that’s being earned doesn’t represent any particular product or labor on anybody’s part. That can’t sustain, because it’s magical thinking. It can’t go on indefinitely, because eventually it crashes. Che’s dream of...
Purity Balls: Cult of the Hymen →
syntheticpubes:
Making the girls carry that giant cross was a thoughtful touch, though.
im all for parents having closer relationships with their kids, i’m sure that helps kids emotionally, but this is very weird. any tumblrs actually been through one of these?
Disaster, Art, Life
jeffmiller:
mills:
Although few like to admit it, Walker Percy’s observation about disaster is largely true: in our era of contented tranquility, superabundance, and fading value systems, we tend to crave catastrophe as a source of meaning. We may noisily declaim that this economic collapse is terrible, that this or that hurricane or fire or administration is so horrific that we’ve lost our...
A Patriot Would Have Given Your Money To Detroit
jeffmiller:
Since I’m against the bailout, I must be un-American:
Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D) said it was “un-American” for senators to have voted against approving a bailout of troubled automakers last night, saying their vote may cause a recession to become a depression.
When I think of America, I think of Mom, apple pie, and using taxpayer dollars to bail out bad corporations.
I’m...
It finally occurred to me why I've been allergic...
robot-heart:
scttkrkwd:robot-heart:
I can’t believe it took me until Thursday to figure it out.
youre pregnate?!
…
No.
well, that title sounds very morning sickness-ish, though
It finally occurred to me why I've been allergic...
robot-heart:
I can’t believe it took me until Thursday to figure it out.
youre pregnate?!
Watchjakeandamir:
Interpreters
jake <3 sara. i knew they were meant for eachother. buy the damn book jake! gawd!
This video is the reason why I'm back on the JA... →
jgh:
Embarrassment to women everywhere.
no shes not. you know shes not. i find her annoying as a person, but it doesnt reflect on women at all. as for what she is talking about, i wouldnt mind seeing some rich young women entrapanuers out there. all the ones i know are designers, and they arnt rich.
this show is a train wreck →
and turns out i forgot to send myself that email...
meaghano:
I just fell in love with someone over the phone. I am going to his apartment on a work-related errand (ha, wow that sounds so Real Job-ish) and he said I had to come early enough so he wouldn’t miss his Holiday Party and I said I had to come early enough so I wouldn’t miss my reading and are you an actor? he asked, and I said, no, I am a writer, and held my tongue before I said, or...
squashed:
Before the Nazis, was there a group held in the same notoriety with which we hold Nazis?
the mongols?
Question:
robot-heart:
You walk into a bathroom. There are six stalls. The first stall from the door has residual poo in the bowl. The second stall from the door is occupied. All others, including the extra-large handicapped stall furthest from the door, are empty.
Which one do you use?
(Boys, substitute “urinal” for “stall.”)
me too.
[poo] [person] [empty] [empty] [me] [handicap]