Chris Weagel writes about the intersection of technology and parenting for Wired Magazine. No he doesn't. He can't stand that shit.
The local Fife and Drum corps have been disbanded. There’s nothing to be done about it. We’ll be lucky if any of them stay in town. Their absence in the parade will be filled by the Old Lady Knitters Auxiliary #452.
The hardest part will be repossessing all the instruments themselves and sanding off the initials of their current owners while they watch. Very old city ordinance. No way around it.
I listen for the train whistle each night. It’s comforting. Each night tucked in bed, hearing that whistle, knowing thousands of state-identified lunatics are being shipped off to loving, caring homes two time zones away – reminds me the system is working.
What I’m proposing is simple. The toppled dictators, con men, shitheads and monsters from Mubarak of Egypt, Ben-Ali of Tunisia, to Scott Walker of Wisconsin and so forth, be relocated en masse to a remote desert island disconnected from the rest of better society. Preferably the same island where the Army dumps all the giant spiders. Each will be equipped with a spear and a musical instrument of their choosing. No sheet music. There will be no running water on this island, nor vitamin supplements. It will take weeks for their mail to be rerouted and even then, most of it will be crushed and/or bent. A crude social order will work itself out with the more ruthless rising above the others. This Pig among pigs as it were will then rename the lesser jerks and, well, probably take up a...
HEY GOOD MORNING EVERYBODY!!
I just got eaten by a shark!
TalkingPointsMemo.com: From the beginning of the Wisconsin situation one thing that’s been clear from almost all the national media is that it’s a tough spot for the public employees unions because the public at large doesn’t like unions. Especially public employees unions. Only now there are a string of polls out — particularly yesterday’s Gallup poll — which show that that’s simply not true. The nation at large overwhelmingly opposes banning collective bargaining rights for public employees (61% – 33%). That’s not just to say that they’re against restricting the rights of organized labor, but public sector unions in particular. What’s popular and what’s not isn’t the be all and end all of political reporting...
Most people don’t realize it yet but this country is in the beginning of an open civil war/revolution. It’s a bringing out into the open the conflict of class war that’s been waged silently over the last thirty years. It won’t be like other sustained wars. It will be hit and miss, here and there. Ebbs and flows. Right now is a swell. Tomorrow could be a lull.
It’s a horrible thing. All you can do is devote yourself to peaceful defiance.
This is what happens when the ruling class goes completely insane. It’s the end of the Roman Empire.
I want to be proven wrong on Obama. I have little hope. No one gets that far in America without being compromised and empty. The system is the problem. Two weeks ago, Obama wrote an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal promising to reduce “burdensome” regulations for his friends in big finance. He figured that the trillions they’d already been given wasn’t quite enough to keep them happy, so he decided he’d find more rules that he could eliminate. Then he slithered over to the Chamber of Commerce to assure them that he’d do whatever he could to “change the tone” at the White House to help them increase profitability. Just days later, Obama delivered an entirely different message to striking Wisconsin teachers. He told them that everyone would...
Progress comes with a price.
