The current Milwaukee's Best Light slogan is not nearly offensive enough.

I suggest: Strong enough for a woman, but brewed for a man's tasteAnd as long as I'm on my pissed-off-about-sexism rampage, I can see both sides of trying to recruit more women to be interested in American football. But titling a course "Football 101 for Women"? Uncalled ( Read more... )

I have now arrived in the (supposedly) most densely populated square mile west of the Mississippi. A place filled with booze, parties, urban hunter-gatherers, and, incidentally, a half mile to one of the best physics schools on the planet.

And apparently, two hours of pushing broom nowadays buys you an eleven by twelve foot room. Of course, ( Read more... )

I started today with $6 in my pocket - a one and a five.

Right now, I have:

4 x $2 + 2 x $5 + 2 x $100.

This is extra strange as I haven't left the house.

After seeing a beautifully tautologous headline like "Scientists question nature's fundamental laws," I thought I'd be prepared for any level of stupidity in what followed. I was wrong: "Public confidence in the 'constants' of nature may be at an all time low." The fine structure constant, for instance, is polling at approximately 0.73% following ( Read more... )

Dealer: alephtwo has high card Ace
Dealer: lSkyl has high card Ace - King+Queen+Ten+Eight kicker

I'm trying to decide which option will have the worse effect on policy debate in this country:

1) Introducing assassination as a tool to cull pundits
2) Not shooting Ann Coulter in the face

(No links because 50% of Ann Coulter's hits already come from angry liberals - why encourage her?)

Finally getting around to responding to edjoesu's challenge. I'm not going to tag anyone for this meme, (I don't have that many lj friends), but if you're interested ( Read more... )

This may come as a surprise to those of you who know my politics: I read National Review online. Sometimes just to raise my blood pressure. But sometimes because they have interesting, insightful points of view. That's occasional. But I figure I need to balance out some of Boulder's culture - reading the New York Times, the Economist, and ( Read more... )

I'll be honest. This past week or so has been remarkably frustrating. As I said before, I had been set on UCSB for a while - until I realized that Harvard had a lot to offer. Or, more accurately, Boston had a lot to offer. So I did what I often do about decisions: meander while talking about them. And every time I said "I'm going to Harvard," ( Read more... )

there will be actual content here, too (though it's introspective).

But first I'd like to point out that I am on Google News for two different stories right now. (Hertz and MCM.) Sure, it's not the society page, but what can you do ( Read more... )