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Quote of the moment
From the comments of this post at Coming Anarchy
“generalizations are a willful display of ignorance”
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There’s much to be said
for working until exhaustion sets in, and none of it good. Humbug.
I have listened to the first five Freakwater albums while I’ve been working on this particular project, it’s good stuff for the late night/early morning.
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The Church of Global Warming
I’ve had these pages open in FireFox forever
- Average temperature of water near top of Earth’s oceans has significantly cooled – Global warming ‘speed bump’? see also
Dramatic climate changes during dinosaur-dominated Mesozoic Era – Relevant to current climate change discussion - Money and Environmental problems
- Nature Does Not Exist by Mathew Parris
The Parris essay is superb, and summarizes my feelings on everything perfectly. I’ve held off doing anything with the links until I can come up a more detailed ranting of my thoughts, but Parris says it much better than I could. Plus it doubles as my general thoughts on community based views of religion.
- Average temperature of water near top of Earth’s oceans has significantly cooled – Global warming ‘speed bump’? see also
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I’m sweating blood!
Or it feels like that anyway. I think I’m about to enter my busiest work period ever.
Anyway, for your amusement, check out this time-lapse map of the Middle East imperialism.
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More on the Beltline scam
From today’s AJC
Mason owns 5 miles of the proposed Beltline in northeast Atlanta. He had offered about half of his land to Atlanta for the Beltline network of transit, trails and parks. Atlanta planners rejected his offer and instead offered him a deal in which he would have donated his land to Atlanta in exchange for the right to develop about 2,000 residences anywhere in the city.
What is amazing is that this is going on in public. He sells the land in exchange for permits? How is that not every definition of graft?
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Tuesday round up
- Liberal attitudes about Islamist terror by Sam Harris – not terribly relevent since they control little, but it is not good for one side to drop out of contention
- More on the Atlanta Path Foundation
- DIY home photo studio setup
- The Beltline crashes – the enthusiasm of some people for real estate scams is an enduring mystery.
- Greshams law and criminal investigation
- John Robb on what’s next in Iraq – very interesting. One thing that goes unmentioned is that the more chaotic Iraq gets, the more valuable Kurdistan gets. Also, after a certain point, a volatile Iraq becomes a liability to Iran, particularly with American troops withdrawn.
- Headshaver – mine is on it’s way.
- Investing the fun way, in vice and sin. “…
- Fatwa Friday!
- Steve Tyler has Hepatitis C
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Live She Is!
After a ton of work, the Earth and Vine web site is finally live. Foodies rejoice!
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Nick was right!
The FoxNews.com website really did take a turn for the ugly and unusable. CNN.com sadly is blighted by the beligerant economic illiteracy of Lou Dobbs, which mars otherwise fine website.
In FoxNews.com defense, they do have periodic columns by Wendy McElroy and Radley Balko. CNN.com has no interesting columns I know of.
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The weekend in pictures
I like the shadowman the best. The angle makes it the figure more exagerated as the image gets higher.
Sunday – Full Street
Sunday – Empty Street
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Outside my chamber door….
My fondness for black and white extend to the insect world, or at least to the Praying Manti.
