mushin no shin

LOL awesome. It’s a shame they couldn’t work a FAIL into this and achieve the elusive trifecta.
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File under: “Silly things we’d never bother to learn if The Internets didn’t make it so trivial to find” –
So, my birthday has always fallen somewhere in the vicinity of Easter, but I didn’t recall it ever actually landing on Easter. Curious, I looked it up, and it seems that while it hasn’t yet happened [...]

Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net

I’m afraid if I don’t post something, then the gears of this software might rust or atrophy or something. So I’ll tell ya that I got a couple of Philip Glass discs for Christmas, including his latest opera Waiting for the Barbarians.
Which is excellent, except it’s funny because for the last month or so I’ve [...]

I can prove it! Using nothing but the most advanced forms of wingnut logic.
See, Ronald Reagan was a member of the Republican Party. Barry Goldwater was also once a member of the Republican Party. Barry Goldwater once employed a speechwriter by the name of Karl Hess. Karl Hess said of Emma Goldman:

Hess said that upon [...]

…is that the frequent making of fists is an incredibly effective way to remember to keep your fingernails trimmed.
Yeah, that’s how little I have to talk about right now. Well, there are things, but all the good thoughts are sloshing around in the muddiest depths of my brain, clearly in no shape to go out [...]

This is pretty cool. Mother Jones told us about The Typealyzer, which probes your blog and computes your Myers-Briggs type based on content:

INTP – The Thinkers

The logical and analytical type. They are especially attuned to difficult creative and intellectual challenges and always look for something more complex to dig into. They are great at finding [...]

While the content of the post is completely unrelated, the Onion somehow managed to perfectly capture the essence of the woes of Tennessee Democrats with just a title:
Phil’s Party Reminds Area Man Why He Doesn’t Go To Phil’s Parties

OK, I’ve been googling to try and find any article probing into the question of Rahm Emanuel’s intelligence, one hundred percent for the purpose of making a post with this title. I found a lot of one-liners about him being a smart guy, but nothing pointed on the subject like what I was looking for. [...]

Rex led us to this xkcd comic:

Yep, that’s about right.
Actually 2012 doesn’t seem like much of a mystery to me. Barring some unforseen tragedy — which could include anything from the unthinkable, to Obama just really fucking things up — I think we’ll see an incumbent Obama handily defeating either Huckabee or Romney. The Republicans [...]