Monthly Archives: January 2010

Keynes vs Hayek

This is pretty clever.

LOL!

Lionel Chetwynd:
Although born long after the Civil War, I have lived through this struggle before. In the 1960s, Pierre Trudeau took Canada, then a country of self-reliant, broad-shouldered, rugged individualists, and by sheer force of political magnetism, transformed it into a post-modern society, a European clone of overtaxed politically correct worrywarts subject to heavy taxes [...]

Insert obligatory nuke-the-site-from-orbit joke here

I had no idea Berkeley had such a large performing arts department:
Last September, Friend reports, 5,000 Berkeley employees and students rallied in Sproul Plaza, scene of protests that ignited the 1960s and helped make Ronald Reagan governor. Some protesters, says Friend, were “naked except for signs that read ‘BUDGET TRANSPARENCY.’” At an indoor meeting, a [...]

Thy name is Lebowski

Genius:
This befalleth when thou firk’st a stranger ‘twixt the buttocks, Laurence! Understand’st thou? Dost thou attend me? Seest thou what happens, Laurence? Seest thou what happens, Laurence? Seest thou what happens, Laurence, when thou firk’st a stranger ‘twixt the buttocks?!
I love the internets.

“Elegant, Responsive, Smart. A new mode of transport” …for hipster douchebags

Reminding me how much I hate (well, some) people:

Utterly unsurprising: footage of the People’s Republic of Cambridge masquerading as Copenhagen.
Anybody remember just getting on a bike and fucking going somewhere?
I’ve got a nice Intel Inside-type tag line for all efforts like this: “Powered by Pretension”.
YOU’RE WELCOME.
(via @GreatDismal, whom I – sadly – [...]