oh hey. look. oil on everything.  

if you measure it differently, there might actually be 70,000 barrels per day coming out of that thing

...not 5,000. 
what the fuck. 

copied entirely from mentalfloss: Miryachit, the Mysterious Siberian Mental Disorder

The only definitive article on the subject of miryachit seems to have been written by a 19th century surgeon named William Hammond, who based his theories on a report written by the captain of a Navy ship sailing past Siberia to Europe in the summer of 1882. I’ve ( Read more... )

SHUT UP SARAH PALIN SHUT UP SHUT UP

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Feb. 6) -- Sarah Palin says President Barack Obama's proposed 2011 budget is "immoral" because it increases the national debt, which she called "generational theft."

um, climate change and fossil fuels?

ps, just in case i was supposed to disclaim: i had really good sex today and nothing is wrong, i think, except for how contemplating crying jags makes me wonder if i'm unconsciously messed up inside ( Read more... )

what to do for haiti? advice from people in the humanitarian-aid/emergency-response biz and beyond ( Read more... )

I got three As and two A-minuses in my fall classes (statistics, SAS programming, policy, epidemiology, and program management). That's nice. My bad academic habits (perfectionism -> procrastination -> poor time management -> apparent flakiness) don't seem to get punished, in the end, except informally in terms of lost sleep and the like. I'm ( Read more... )

I made what turned out to be a really long comment in response to springheel_jack 's much briefer post (quoth he: "Happy Holidays from Huffington Post! Look how white we are! We're almost as white as the crowds that show up for Spencer Tunick's "art" photography sessions, and those are the whitest things imaginable! Whiter than rutile!").

It kind of seems like ( Read more... )

thinking about albert schweitzer tonight. thanks to springheel_jack i read this: "Obama defends war war at Nobel Peace-Prize Ceremony" - and yes i know obama is walking a tightrope, what with accepting an honor he doesn't deserve and having both an anti-war and pro-war constituency back home to simultaneously placate - but still. so instead i'm thinking about a ( Read more... )

this post, though it eventually descends into lots of heteronormativity, is pretty awesome:

Men are tasked with this impossible, crazy-making requirement: to be a man, you must acquire relationships with women, but you must not identify with them, or even like them all that much. You are not a man until you can get a woman to pay attention to you ( Read more... )