Chuckles sent one of his homespun tales: A man came home from work and found his three children outside, still in their pajamas, playing in the mud, with empty food boxes and wrappers strewn all around the front yard. The door of his wife’s car was open, as was the front door to the house [...]
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Never changes, eh?
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This ones been breeding for a week or two and is typical. When faced with ‘important things’, well ‘everyone knows’ they’re important, don’t they? Like the upcoming COPS17 climate conference in Durban has been decreed to be important, one must produce press releases and file copy that supports and extends the narrative of it’s importance. [...]
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Alfin’s running a post on world IQ: Now anyone looking at that would know instantly it’s either a joke or seriously misguided – wot, Brits and Aussies deep in the green? Not a touch of the red anywhere? [H/T Chuckles]
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Who’s behind it? In its work to properly explain the Twelve Most Profitable International Crimes, 24/7 Wall St. analyzed source material that provided the estimated value of the market for each criminal enterprise, the directionality of the flow (the countries of origin and destination), the amount and type of illegal contraband or people sold, how [...]
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You know, life’s a bit tough these days. I’m so close to being on: Queer Street … it’s not funny.
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A miniature functioning replica 1932 Duesenberg by Louis Chenot – a 35″ long working model made in 1/6 scale
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The Occupiers have major strikes against them which run a bit like this: 1. They’re calling for the wrong thing. Driven by their own hip-pocket nerve, i.e. we have no money and no jobs, therefore we cast covetous eyes at anyone else’s money, no matter whose and we want it and we want it now. [...]
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Up themselves: Call management software developer Tiger Communications was rapped on the knuckles late last month for using software illegally and BSA boasted it had forced the firm to cough £25,000 in settlement fees and to pay for the licence. Despite the tough talking, BSA confirmed that Tiger had not admitted liability. Then Brian Hoadley, [...]
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I’m on an induction course tomorrow and Thursday, then on Friday at another one and work on Saturday. Going to be interesting at the blog and at OoL. Have to post when possible.
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There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one’s safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he [...]
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Have you ever looked at a bizarre building design and wondered, “What were the architects thinking?” Have you looked at a supposedly “ecological” industrial-looking building, and questioned how it could be truly ecological? Or have you simply felt frustrated by a building that made you uncomfortable, or felt anger when a beautiful old building was [...]
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First this: Kahneman’s claim to fame — which helped him win his Nobel prize — is to expose how error-prone our intuitive and automatic thinking is, and why. He exposed this perilously “false intuition” in a number of different areas of “expertise.” The reason a psychologist won a Nobel Prize in economics, for example, is [...]
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The Telegraph tries to convince us the corner’s been turned: UK inflation eases to 5pc as French and German economies grow Le figaro also tries to beat it up, then headlines with: PSA supprimera plus de 4000 postes en France en 2012 Yep – jobs to go. We are NOT recovering, we are going down.
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Always enjoyed this one – Jack Winter, New Yorker, July 25, 1994: It had been a rough day, so when I walked into the party I was very chalant, despite my efforts to appear gruntled and consolate. I was furling my wieldy umbrella for the coat check when I saw her standing alone in a [...]
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Life Mirrors Art is unoriginal but apt or to mix references – which comes first, the chicken or the egg? On the recent post on ugliness at OoL, one commenter mentioned Roger Scruton’s post, which I had not seen but interestingly, it said: This triumph of ‘function’ over form in recent decades has dehumanised our [...]
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The ethics of honey? Removal of all pollen from honey “makes no sense” and is completely contrary to marketing the highest quality product possible, Mark Jensen, president of the American Honey Producers Association, told Food Safety News. I don’t know of any U.S. producer that would want to do that. Elimination of all pollen can [...]
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Man is a long way from the enlightenment which transcends humanity. He is a long way too from the bottom of the cliff down which he is about to fall.
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Most attractive riffs, especially the free form ones but ultimately, meaningless as a song. Worse than meaningless, the pointless lyrics are meant to be taken as something profound. This is the huge disappointment of Paul Simon, who might have said something worth saying … if he’d had something to say:
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“A bird deprived of her wings is not more incomplete than the human mind without imagination” Before The Pre-Raphaelites there was another, less well known, group of painters who styled themselves as The Ancients. Not having a self-publicist as good as Dante Gabriel Rosetti is one of the reasons they are overlooked by art historians [...]
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Jesse Jessie’s gone off the deep end – if you look at his sidebar, he has a repeated cartoon of the fed as a squid, with the header/overwriting “starve the squid”. He’s been getting stuck right into the Fed and the banksters for a long time now, producing things like: Here is a white paper [...]
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[H/T Chuckles]
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Click on the pic, go to “movers and shakers” and expand the pic of Bono and well, well, well – whom have we got sitting right beside him? Yep, the fugitive from justice himself. Now look at these:
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No takers on the last one. You get a hint this time – it’s near NYC, you wouldn’t have wanted to go near it in 1915:
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