mushin no shin

Back when I was just a smart teenage nerd with a budding anti-authoritarian streak, The Manhattan Project, a film a about a teenager who builds an atomic bomb, was a natural and instant favorite. Hell, I eventually even sampled the damn thing:
Chaos Dreary
But of course, whatever real merits the movie may have had, I was [...]

I of course completely agree with Aunt B that anyone who thinks Bush is Batman is a moron of well, comic book proportions. A supermoron, if you will.
But beyond that, it occurs to me, isn’t Batman partly a tale about a hopelessly ineffective government ripe with corruption and crony-ism, and particularly plagued by a broken [...]

I don’t really have much to add on the new Ted Stevens mess, but Rex pointed us to this Gawker post which introduced us to:

which is just awesome in its own right. Of course I think it’s the lolcats that make it ring true. Well, that and His Noodly Appendage, of course.

No spectacular new ideas or information here, but as a fan of San Francisco, and a fan of Henry George, I do enjoy Fred Folvary using the term San Francisco School as another name for Georgist economics.
That reminds me, I never did finish my travel diary from my trip. I can’t believe it’s been more [...]

Apparently it was August 20, 1991 when I drove up to Orlando for the first lollapalooza, which I bring up to tell again about the pre-show activities, when I ate some acid with a random hardcore freak I met in line — who actually said his name was Gonzo — who gave me a copy [...]

how do I explain
when I in pain
fail to refrain,
as even yet
it remains,
that I at best can claim,
to be insane?
No, the gaping whole, the vacuum abhorred,
the discipline — bored;
Oh sure, I agree, superficially –
I just wish I knew
how to share with you
the frozen crystal tear to which I cling,
my only rock within this thing.

No, I’m not surprised by Obama’s shift to the center, and particularly the capitulation on FISA. I am disappointed, not because he went to the center, but because he went to the wrong center.
And more to the point — it was completely unnecessary. The “let’s take a quick piss on the wall between church [...]

I just saw a clip of an Access Hollywood interview with Obama’s children, and one of his little girls revealed this shockingly unpatriotic fact:
“I enjoy decorating, so I get this whole new room to do whatever I want,” said Malia, according to excepts provided by “Access Hollywood.”
For the good of our country, I do hope [...]

Success! I sampled the first bottle of my homebrew tonight, and it turned out quite tasty. Well, the shitty thing is that it’s a standard issue golden pilsner-style lager, since that’s the mix that came with the kit — will have to brew a good stout or something for the next batch. At which point [...]