December 2011
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BNAT 13 (Wolf) Wrap-Up
Thanks to @HeadGeek666 for inviting Becky and I to his 24-hour birthday movie marathon, once more. I’m not saying it’s our last one, but next year we hope to be managing a 5 month old at this time. We’ll probably be practiced up on sleep deprivation, but it would be odd if we both skipped out for a dozen movies in a row. We’ll tackle that as we come to it, but here’s...
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“…saying that a Negative X intensifies a Positive Y imagines a fairness and...”
– This isn’t what people mean when they say that suffering exists to provide contrast/context to joy. If I show you a graph that displays how much I enjoyed CABIN IN THE WOODS you’d see a chart with a single line. That’s not terribly useful. If I added to that chart a line showing my...
“…One man rolled to the ground and vomited for a long, long time before...”
– We live in a police state where massive fraud that decimates our economy is rewarded with absurd bonuses or golden parachutes, but peaceful protestors are assaulted under instructions from the people we elected.
Read the whole thing at My Occupy LA Arrest by Patrick Meighan.
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“[PayPal] kept us from helping children at Christmas, which is really the best...”
– PayPal collected fees from all the transactions where Regretsy was trying to do good for Christmas, then locked up Regretsy’s account and made them return all the money (while keeping the PayPal fees.) Read the details at CATS 1, KIDS 0.
(Thanks to a friend with a locked twitter account for...
“I’m very, very, concerned about having U.S. citizens sent to Guantanamo...”
– When Rand Paul and Dianne Feinstein agree on something, we should all pay attention. (And when Lindsey Graham says American citizens ought to be detained without due process, the people of South Carolina should be angry or ashamed.)
Read more at Senate Votes To Let Military Detain Americans...