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The best modernist architecture ballet I’ve ever seen. (Update: the embed doesn’t work with this video for some reason, but here’s another clip, taken from the earlier frantic naked man portion of the performance:) Clearly, the Bauhaus transparency fetish is being parodied by the set designers cliche use of aligned screens to create a tenuous sense [...] The title is really all I got in response to dude becoming much more popular among the ladies (and white people!), at Clinton’s expense. Unfortunately, this means that my prediction that Edwards will win the nomination is looking more and more unlikely. Zeitlin compares the coming Lessig for Congress campaign to Obama’s, and I’m not even going to object to the hyperbole since I’m nearly as excited. There’s been some talk in the ‘sphere that the country would be better served by FCC chairman Lessig, and while that may be true in the short-term, Lessig’s impending movement [...] With his lever stuck on full pander, McCain had no choice, when confronted with the email revealing Obama’s secret Muslimness, but to release his own plan to help al-Qaeda win the war on terror. I don’t see very many terrorists voting for Obama now, but since the commies are still in his pocket, the [...] I know it’s fun to laugh at the Japanese, but if there was a candidate named Bakersfield, I would support them unconditionally. What are the odds that the man visits the town on his first state visit to Japan (knock on wood)? 2-1? There needs to be a place where I can place that bet. I find the Stuff White People Like site humorous and…annoying? The site’s a little subversive since whiteness is the privileged norm and thus not generally subject to stereotyping, which makes reading it somewhat jarring — “these are people things…not white people things…but Whole Foods is so white…arggg!” but there’s not really enough critique to [...] I’m going to punt on the question of whether Cuba’s political oppression is outweighed by its social welfare provisions, and instead point to the psuedo-Soviet client state next door, Nicaragua, as a bizarro-Cuba where there was regular democratic elections after the revolution. The result: The US spent (spends?) millions of dollars influencing the [...] Mike Meginis wrestling with an invisible hand: Most minimum wage employees are absolutely essential to our economy and quality of life, not just because we exploit them to lower prices and perform undesirable tasks but because they do jobs that need to be done. Working retail sucks, but without retail there’s no manufacture, no entertainment, nothing [...] Because Verco W3 deck produces cool lighting: Photo by an undisclosed engineer working on an undisclosed project. Chris Bowers presents an inspiring argument for space travel and I wanted to provide my own. Engineers are often (justifiably) stereotyped as asking ‘what is the right tool?’ but never ‘why build?’ And, indeed, the pure technical challenges of space travel excite me no end. My dream job would be Martian Structural Engineer — I want [...] This sums up how the various building trades feel about each other: But in my experience, the drafters get thrown under the bus the most, since they never find out that you were disparaging. From the comments: My parents invented their our industry, a previously non-existant niche in the international market. This took over twenty years of endless work and sacrifice. If the government forced them to give parts of the company to their employess, tell me how that’s NOT wrong. Explain to me why. –Jeremy Clagett A fair question. Let’s look [...] For McCain’s VP: Cons: JoePa is 147 years old. Pros: He is immortal and cannot be killed by conventional means, making him a good man to step in should something happen to the President. Convincing. And he is probably the only man in America who could make McCain look spry. Digging deeper, if we imagine a world where each [...] I’ll grant you, REM lover, that caucuses are inaccessible, particularly to traditionally disadvantaged sectors, but that’s not the same thing as undemocratic. In the limit case, if one eliminated all the voting restrictions currently in place (age, citizenship, residency, not-a-felon status) you’d have a pretty radically different system — one that I could probably get [...] Obama’s big ideological competitor is…Ron Paul? I wondered where the Baptists for Brownback has gone after he withdrew from the race. Now I know. I only hope that years from now the performance art group collective individualitive behind the Ron Paul internet blitz holds an exhibition of all their work. |
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