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How to Spot a Liar (or: Why Time Should Burn)
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The first paragraph invokes a biblical allegory and contrasts human beings’ folly with God’s omniscience; the second paragraph uses the memory of 9-11 and the threat of terror to introduce and sell the DoD’s massive investment in lie detecting technology. This is mainstream media. This is nauseating. #
Florida voting fraud investigator found dead
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Lots of eerie details surrounding his supposed suicide. Read this so that in a few decades when all the Bush Administration’s corruption comes to light you can half-heartedly say, “I knew it,” while everyone around you just stares into space and chews their cud. #
Skate Beirut
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If you just chill the fuck out and buck the whole Chicken Little routine that corporate media tries to cram down your throat, things can be pretty cool. (Thumbs down for the product placement, though.) #
Bruce Schneier on Anti-terror
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“Imagine for a moment that the British government arrested the 23 suspects without fanfare. Imagine that the TSA and its European counterparts didn’t engage in pointless airline-security measures like banning liquids. And imagine that the press didn’t write about it endlessly, and that the politicians didn’t use the event to remind us all how scared we should be. If we’d reacted that way, then the terrorists would have truly failed.” A must-read. #
Armor of God PJs
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Holy shit! I guess Christians were getting jealous of Mormons and their awesome long johns. #
Yeah, Air Travel Does Seem a Little Weird Right Now
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“Your carryon items will be confiscated and thrown into a pit of wild dogs for further inspection and violent thrashing.” Yay McSweeneys! Look for “Your Flight, Three Years From Now.” #
Ethanol could leave the world hungry
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“The grain required to fill a 25-gallon SUV gas tank with ethanol, for instance, could feed one person for a year. If today’s entire U.S. grain harvest were converted into fuel for cars, it would still satisfy less than one-sixth of U.S. demand.” #
The Liquid World
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More good thoughts on the current hysteria surrounding terrorism and carry-on baggage. “The new no-liquid rules make an exception for prescription medicine. Do you think I can’t make a prescription label on the color printer at my office? Do you think I can’t empty and refill capsules?” #
Zefrank on terrorism
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He always hits the nail on the head. Driving your car is still more dangerous than flying, even if those Gatorade bombs (omgwtfbbq) had brought down a dozen planes in a day. Rationalize the risk, people. Don’t fashion your fear into a noose and hand it to corrupt politicians. #
Only traitors try to make us afraid of terrorists
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This is something I’ve intuitively latched onto for quite some time now, but now it’s been proven in a meticulously-researched paper for the Cato institute. “The bottom line is, terrorism doesn’t kill many people. Even in Israel, you’re four times more likely to die in a car wreck than as a result of a terrorist attack. In the USA, you need to be more worried about lightning strikes than terrorism.” SO STOP USING IT TO JUSTIFY THE EVAPORATION OF OUR CIVIL LIBERTIES, YOU FUCKS. #
What Bugs Me About Flickr
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More thoughts on the celebrity effect from an author more concise than myself. I’ve really been on a roll with this whole “the internet is the next sexual revolution” thing for the past couple days. Just wait ’til I start posting dick shots on Flickr! #
American Madrassas
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David Byrne recounts a screening of Jesus Camp, a film about a summer camp in North Dakota where Right-wing political agendas are woven into kids’ heads along side bible teachings and born again rituals. Fucking terrifying. #
