I never update here. Social networking seems easier, limited to 140 characters. I am tempted to move this site to an archive with a front page that has links to the brothers facebook or twitter page. At least then you would get some kind of updates.
Shay (I try to use APIs that tie all together) :
Shane:Facebook
Sean:Facebook
Shannon:Facebook
Ed:Facebook
Jake:
and he did say, “Foul daemons, cast your prices down, for I am who can and did”.
The ground shooketh as the daemons were dispossessed of their gains. “I am Individual” said one. “I am Liberty” said another. “I can take of myself really”, said a third, “and frankly, I like the feel of slightly under inflated tires”.
But the Obamessiah, the newly elected Lord, Overseer of the redemption of Camelot-with-Seatbelts, Prince of Green, Redistributor of Wealth, and Ensurer of Health for all, lowered His Holy hands, and with that even the Lepertarians were able to afford fuel.
Amen, I say to you, four years of Wonder will abound.
This John Stossel article is pissah. Read the whole thing. I read every John Stossel article, but I had to post about this because of the viewer responses.
Let me be politically incorrect and say that maybe some people shouldn’t vote.
I know I’m swimming against the tide. Get-out the-vote groups now register young people at rock concerts. HeadCount (www.headcount.org) cofounder Andy Bernstein told me: “We registered over a 100,000 people. It is so imperative that this generation’s voice is heard.”
But wait. Is that really a good idea? Many kids don’t know much. At a HeadCount concert, “20/20″ asked some future voters, “How many senators are there?” One said 12, another 16, and another 64. One girl guessed, “50 per state.”
Most kids didn’t know what Roe v. Wade was about. “Roe vs. Wayne?” asked one. “Segregation, maybe?” “Where we declared bankruptcy?”
Headcount’s Marc Brownstein concedes, “there’s a lot of uninformed voters out there.” But he argued:
“Democracy is not about taking the most educated portion of the society and having them decide who’s going to run the entire society. Democracy is about every individual having a voice.”
I suggested that when people don’t know anything, maybe it’s their civic duty not to vote.
That’s a good story. I don’t know if I agree with him altogether, but it is well-written. After airing something similar on 20/20, bitches didn’t like his flow. Here’s his recapitulation of some of the responses:
“That was a shameful piece you put together about youth voting. … I wonder if the quality of the information in our society has anything to do with hackery like yours infesting the airwaves and drowning out reasonable discussion.”…
“You sit there on television and ignorantly say that all youth should not vote . . . wow.”
“You simply cannot create a litmus test for voters. At what point does a voter become satisfactorily ‘informed’? Do they have to know the name of the president, vice president, both their senators? This is the problem with your argument; you don’t state how informed a voter should be, just that they should be. This is a very slippery slope.”
Wow. That’s special. Let’s take the first one. ‘[D]rowning out reasonable discussion’? When did John Stossel stop someone from talking, or talk over someone, or in any way compromise someone’s ability to discuss, well, anything?
‘Sit there on television…’ Does Stossel generalize a single time? Does he say that young people shouldn’t vote? No, he says that uninformed idiots shouldn’t vote. If someone wants to project and say that means ‘all young people’, then good on them. They’ve indicted the whole YouTube generation as fucking morons.
The worst is obviously the last. Why do people automatically associate disagreement with ‘hate speech’, ‘fascism’, and ‘mean spiritedness’? John Stossel is not the government. He’s just a dude. He posits that maybe idjuts shouldn’t vote. This jackass starts talking about slippery slopes. Hey, arsehole: there is no ’slippery slope’. John Stossel is a private citizen writing a column. Nobody has proposed a test for people to vote. Nobody will stop stupid people from voting. There will be no quiz at the polls. John Stossel posed a question as a private citizen and he got rubbish in response.
That is why I hate people.
New Ink, haz sum:
That’s a compass rose with (yes I broke a cardinal rule here) my wife’s name in Hebrew in the middle. I was thinking of going with red for the accent color, but it looked too much like an anarchist star. It’s my first tattoo that is easily seen, and I am digging the fact that I can see it unlike my others.
Thank you to you all who gave me birfday shout outs. The IT manager got me good at work. I am not shy about my birthday, I don’t hide it, but I do not go around letting everyone know when it is either. Not a big deal to me. He thought it would be fun to screw with me, so he set a reminder in half the company’s calendars to let them know. Not one common reminder I can go and delete, each calendar got its own note. I got happy birthdays all day long. I was rather humiliating, as most thought I gave them the reminder myself.
The wife got me a kindle as a present and gave it to me a couple of months ago before we went away on vacation. I am loving it! Finish a book in the middle of New Hampshire outside some arcade, 30 secods later I have a new one. One of the guys at work sent me a link to feedbooks which is a pdf you download on the kindle. In the pdf are links to kindle format books that are public domain or open source. Find a book you want, click the link, it downloads to the kindle for free. I comfortably read for 6 straight hours on it. I really dig it.
I’ve bought into the flex fuel idear. Check out the Zubrin PowerPoint presentation here..
As a libertarian, I don’t like to have the government mandate anything, but I see this as a national security issue which is firmly within the province of the executive and legislative branch.
I am not a scientist or an economist. Someone who took a class or two in those subjects can give me the unintended consequences of Dr. Zubrin’s plan in the comments.
UPDATE: John McCain is seeming like a fiscal conservative and copying my conversion.
kinshay posted a video:
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
kinshay posted a photo:
Shot of my bookcase, just screwing around seeing if I can move the post generator from the full feed to one set
kinshay posted a photo:
Moving the WP-O-Matic from the whole flickr feed to a single set only, pictures I want to add to the site will go into this set.
hat tip to the agitator.
i’ve been following the cory maye case for a while now, the guy was railroaded. here’s an excellent video from reason.tv hosted by drew carey.
please go to reason.tv to digg or reddit it.
just two more victims from the war on drugs.
