• But I confess I’ve always been highly amused by the thinking that goes into being anti-black and anti-Jew. They don’t like blacks because of “inferior intelligence,” and they don’t like Jews because of…well…because of apparently superior intelligence, which permits Jews to control everything over the wishes of “whites.”

    So I guess they think “the white race” has managed to find the marvelous Goldilocks level of intelligence: just right. Not too smart, and not too dumb.

    —Rob Lyman at “The Goldilocks Theory of Racial Intelligence - Megan McArdle”

  • Ashes to Ashes. My favorite show on television[*] right now.

    via www.bbc.co.uk

    *: by which I mean, of course, on the computer, via BitTorrent.

  • Four Bohemians sit at the opening of a tent holding French Horns (1905)

    Great light & exposure. Perfect focus & just-right depth of field. Could be a movie set.

    (via yvynyl)

  • lineara:

    wow. what are they smoking at google today?

    25th anniversary of Tetris.

  • You can fight the permanent national security apparatus and get nothing in return other than a reputation as a giant pussy existential threat to America who is going destroy us all, or you can let the apparatus publicly act like you’re in charge of it while it more or less runs itself, allowing you to focus on the trivial issues you care about, like nationalizing things and raising taxes. Cheney wiping the floor with Obama over torture is a sad sign that it’s all still just churning along. The message, I take it, is that the damn hippy kids can appoint bisexual robot Latinas to the Supreme Court and tell GM to make cars that run on fairy kisses as long as they know the Serious People will continue to control the power that matters. All signs point to Obama going along, which, as Nixon knew, is what you can expect from self-impressed Ivy League assholes.

    —The Party of Nixon

  • Pork and Beans (via weezer)

    Last year, I know, but the breifly loved Weezer flaming out with dozens of the even more briefly loved still brings a tear to my eye.

  • Glenn Bryan, 68, was watching weather reports on television while taking shelter in the basement of his Pomona, Missouri, home when the power went out.

    He went upstairs to find a radio just as a tornado came through. Bryan grabbed a door handle “and hunkered down,” he told CNN affiliate KYTV.

    “Couldn’t hold on much longer,” he said. “I thought I’d be gone to the woods.”

    The back of the house blew away, a tree shattered a large window in front, and his friend’s pickup truck flipped upside down, KYTV reported.

    “I was stupid” for leaving the basement, Bryan told the station, “but I wanted to know where the storm was … and I found it. I found it.”

    —Storm-tossed Missouri, Kentucky likely to get more - CNN.com