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Glenn Greenwald Is Insane
This is from Greenwald's December 19 Salon column. I don't understand how anyone can actually write this with a straight face ( Read more... ) -
BBV, whoah.
At a dinner last week, I was talking to a friend about his consulting business when my elder daughter, now eight, came over to interrupt. The conversation went something like this ( Read more... ) -
Today's Political Snippet
I can understand an adrenaline surge, but "empowering"? WTF, where do these people come from ( Read more... ) -
Politics
A libertarian friend of mine suggested that the only way to prevent our current political situation from becoming materially worse is to impose term limits on Congress. I responded to the effect that you might as well light a match in the middle of a hurricane, and that the Singularity will be upon us before a relatively pedestrian fix like term ( Read more... ) -
Flight of the Conchords
I found this video to be just ridiculously funny, in large measure because of the motions and apple-tossing of the deep-voiced guy, whose name I think is Jermaine:
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Monthly Challenge Report: + 133
I'm done with August. All in all, I'd give myself a C+. Positive ROI of about 4% on a mix of 6.50 and 13.00 SNGs, with a few small-stakes MTTs thrown in. I made some absolutely god-awful plays, but also had some good solid decisions. I note that my ITM finishes break down 65 56 47, so I'm either more effective HU or I'm hitting the money with a ( Read more... ) -
The best run-on sentence ever!
A former Senator and vice-presidential candidate misused campaign contributions and money pledged to fight poverty so he could bring his mistress on the campaign trail with him during the presidential campaign where he was constantly making appearances with his widely admired cancer stricken wife then fathered the mistress's child sometime around ( Read more... ) -
World's Worst Prop Bet
Seriously, I don't know what possessed me to bet that Amy Winehouse would have higher career earnings than Britney Spears in 2023. Part of it was that I was three sheets to the wind when I made the bet and among close friends to whom the $2K doesn't matter much. Part of it also was that I really haven't focused on Britney until recent years, when ( Read more... ) -
John Edwards
It will be no surprise to anyone that knows me that I've thought this guy was 100% snake oil from the beginning. What stuns me is that anyone -- literally anyone -- believes the current line of utter crap that he is spinning. It requires you to believe that the following conversation took place ( Read more... )