Archive for December, 2007
The Garden of Eden sucked:
One of the most entertaining things I’ve read in the economist in a while…
Constant warfare was necessary to keep population density down to one person per square mile. Farmers can live at 100 times that density. Hunter-gatherers may have been so lithe and healthy because the weak were dead. The invention of agriculture and the advent of settled society merely swapped high mortality for high morbidity, allowing people some relief from chronic warfare so they could at least grind out an existence, rather than being ground out of existence altogether.
Some Dr.Who parodies:
best christmas cartoon ever?
I think this is pretty much the xmas cartoon for all those who aren’t quite as swept up in the spirit - ‘woodland critter xmas’
happy holidays.
I’m drunk, after having an enjoyable evening with friends and settling in for the night. Happy holidays y’all!
Chikara King of Trios Night Three 2.18.07
I’ve never heard of this tournament but it looks very entertaining - watch some of the moves in this:
This is a really creepy cartoon….
Anyone know anything about this cartoon? It looks like its part of a show but what kids show would be that evil?
Reason to vote for Obama?
Interesting article here on the Atlantic website about Obama. The author lays out their reasons for why they feel Obama is the best choice, but this passage in particular I feel is interesting food for thought about the American political system and the relative lack of difference in the presidential candidates:
Take the biggest foreign-policy question—the war in Iraq. The rhetoric ranges from John McCain’s “No Surrender” banner to the “End the War Now” absolutism of much of the Democratic base. Yet the substantive issue is almost comically removed from this hyperventilation. Every potential president, Republican or Democrat, would likely inherit more than 100,000 occupying troops in January 2009; every one would be attempting to redeploy them as prudently as possible and to build stronger alliances both in the region and in the world. Every major candidate, moreover, will pledge to use targeted military force against al-Qaeda if necessary; every one is committed to ensuring that Iran will not have a nuclear bomb; every one is committed to an open-ended deployment in Afghanistan and an unbending alliance with Israel. We are fighting over something, to be sure. But it is more a fight over how we define ourselves and over long-term goals than over what is practically to be done on the ground.
Hunter S. Thompson
A short audio interview given about ‘hells angels’;
and the problem between the blurring of fantasy and reality:
gonzovision: