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ingrates
Yves Smith has fun with a Wall Street Journal article that wonders why employers can't get worthwhile employees at lowball wages after spending a generation undermining conditions for stable employment:
Quaint as it may sound, there once was a tacit commitment: a worker who competent and dedicated could expect to spend a considerable amount of his ( Read more... ) -
it's just noise
palsgraf_polka sifts the memes so I don't have to:
Rules: Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen albums that you've listened to that will always stick with you or influenced you, the ones that touch you and you can listen to again and again from start to finish. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.
[in quasi-alphabetical order, as ( Read more... ) -
handy web gizmo
What with all this talk about Betelgeuse asploding on Facebook, a friend asked where to look. I was at a loss for a description, since Orion is about the only constellation I can consistently identify given our cruddy urban starfield. Googling around a bit, I found this really spiffy sky-mapper - maps to current time and geographic coordinates ( Read more... ) -
just what we needed
Is it just me, or is there a voguelet for newest-first comments going on out there?
It is difficult for me to imagine a less helpful innovation in this context. -
walkin' the walk
The artist formerly known as BarTel D'Arcy reminds me why I not only read Hit and Run, but still get Reason on paper with a bit on an anti-Islamic black-metal band in Beirut:
The band lives in and at least used to play in Beirut, so why hasn't some pious Lester Bangs managed to cap a thumbs-down review by, you know, murdering them? The only negative ( Read more... ) -
rem acu tetigisti
Tim Cavanaugh pinpoints what's long bothered me formlessly about Matt Taibbi:
I understand Taibbi's appeal rests in large part on his style -- a combination of extreme dudgeon, over-the-top ad hominems and lotsa cussin' -- but I wish he would get out of his own way a little more. There's an interesting story in here, but in Taibbi's hurry to let ( Read more... ) -
marathonaramianamania
principaltogar ran the National Marathon in about 4:41! -
red-cooked pork
[Freely adapted from Gloria Bley Miller, Thousand Recipe Chinese Cookbook, which I think I got from the Intimate Bookshop in Chapel Hill back when it was circling the drain and served as a remainder bin for the entire Southeast. I always start from the assumption I'll need to double the seasoning in any given recipe.]
3lb. chicharrones (Salvadoran ( Read more... )
