August 2008
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“This obsession with “street-cred” reaches its apex of absurdity as hipsters have...”
– Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters via Ludditerobot
Procrastination is the sweetest when you have the most to do. And I have a lot to do.
Tumblr import
I imported a bunch of posts from my Wordpress blog, including the comments. Some of the titles look messed up (spaces missing, etc.) but I can’t be bothered to go through and fix them just yet.
All good things in time.
“[W]hen Mr. Bush visited Tbilisi in 2005, the authorities estimated that 150,000...”
– The New York Times reported this nausea-inducing moment in today’s edition.
Now, they can take yourlaptop
According to the Washington Post, US Federal Agents may now detain your laptop at the border for an indefinite period of time, and — get this — without any reasonable cause whatsoever:
The policies state that officers may “detain” laptops “for a reasonable period of time” to “review and analyze information.” This may take place “absent...
Obama playing the race card
Everyone seems to have their knickers in a twist over the fact that Barack Obama pointed out that he doesn’t look like the old white dudes on US currency. Shockingly, this simple observation, having come from the mouth of a politician like Obama, is actually true (and painfully obvious).
Despite the obviousness of what is essentially a non-problematic statement, the McCain camp accuses...