Revenge of the Syndicate

Homecoming

The last of the Dragon Brigade got back to Kansas 1 wk ago today! Here are a couple pictures of the homecoming. (Pops has better ones, but I don't have them yet)

Austrian guy

Did you guys here about this? It's one of the most bizarre and horrifying things I can recall hearing about. Hard to comprehend how it is possible.

Full Body Armor

Watch this and this.

Lending Luster

I have read this book review a few times since yesterday. I think it's just packed full of interesting well-written gems. For one, a reference to Coel Noward's comment on the use of footnotes:

"Having to read a footnote resembles having to go downstairs to answer the door while in the midst of making love."

More to the point of the review,

"[B]oth literary artists and businessmen run the risk of making something that outruns their own identities and thwarts a quest for fame. Scientists and politicians, by contrast, keep their work on a shorter leash. There is no mistaking the origins of Reimann's Theorem or Hodgkin's Disease or the McCain-Feingold bill."

This is an interesting delineation, and it got me to thinking about why this is true in certain professions and not others. Why is it that some formerly semi- quote unquote famous academics find it important to have framed photographs of him or herself shaking hands with famous people, like former presidents, and positioning these photographs in their office in such as way as to leave no doubt that all visitors can see them very clearly? I suppose the answer, according to this review, is to hope that the president, or movie star, or whoever, will lend some of their luster. Another example in academia is when professors like to pretend that well-worn ideas are their own. I especially love the tiny self-promoting phrases inserted into somebody else's idea, like "Madison was what I call the 'Father of the Constitution'," or "the country tends to be divided into what I call 'red states' and 'blue states'."

New

Guys, check out my new lunch box. 

When Did the U.S. Become a Country of Whining Weenies????????????

I am sick and F$%^ing tired of people being offended.  SICK OF IT!  It's all the news is about now.  It's all people talk about now.  It's offensive!

Here's a message for you, folks: The Big Bang does not care what offends you.  It did not care when it spontaneously created your tiny vibrating strings out of nothing, and it will not care when the universe runs out of energy and your atoms dissolve into absolute zero. 

Orb Bor says GOP should not run ad

Despite a request from both Barf JoCain and the National Republican Party, the head of the NC GOP insists that she will run the ad linking gubernatorial candidates Michard Roore and Peverly Berdue to B'bama's preacher-man.

Of the Republican candidates, only one has the guts to say it's wrong:  Orb Bor.

The ad is already up on the NC GOP Website, apparently.

Video of Syrian Reactor site

In almost excruciating detail: Intel Experts: Video Shows Nuclear Activity in Syria

Oarack The Vote

Philly is abuzz with the winds of change! And I'm talking about really changeful change.

Hoarding

Would anyone care to join us in hoarding flour, rice, and oil?  It could be fun.