Archive for October, 2008
Friday, October 31st, 2008
John Stewart last night made a great joke in reference to the shots of the amber waves of grain in the Obama infomercial, to paraphrase — “Finally, a candidate you want to make a beer with!”
And now the Beer Activist tells us about … wait for it… The Audacity of Hops –
‘08% ABV and full [...]
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
I lack the discipline to get into weekly theme posts like the “feel good Friday” thing, but Halloween on a Friday calls for some celebrating. Perhaps a double shot, even.
It’s just not Halloween without Danny Elfman:
Or that master songsmith of gothic macabre, Weird Al:
(Sorry I couldn’t find a version where the video didn’t sort of [...]
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Who I am: a radical left-libertarian, of a Georgist / geolibertarian bent in particular. I hold a strong distrust of The State, and a strong belief in the Hayekian principles regarding the virtues of spontaneous order and the intelligence of the invisible hand — yet I understand the differences between the system we have, and [...]
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
Though I really do pretty much agree with Lesley, still David Sedaris brings the funny on The Undecided:
To put them in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. “Can I interest you in the chicken?” she [...]
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
Because the Sarah Palin Sex Doll has completely blown my juvenile joke receptors. Heh, blown.
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Sunday, October 12th, 2008
The Opera last night was packed, so the fundamentals of the economy must be strong!
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Saturday, October 11th, 2008
You may or may not have already seen the video of McCain trying to tell his wingnut supporters to chill:
See — I think John McCain is a decent guy. I don’t think he’s especially bright, I think he’s wrong on a laundry list of issues, and I think he lacks the temperament and emotional discipline [...]
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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
I think it’s real, but only because I choose to accept uncritically anything that makes the candidate I oppose look bad. I think Sarah Palin would agree with my philosophy.
In reference to Palin’s alleged SAT scores
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Monday, October 6th, 2008
Heehee:
If you had purchased $1,000.00 of Delta Air Lines stock one year ago, you would have $49.00 left.
With Enron, you would have had $16.50 left of the original $1,000.00.
With WorldCom, you would have had less than $5.00 left.
But, if you had purchased $1,000.00 worth of beer one year ago, drank all of the beer, then [...]
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