A couple of quick links since I don’t have tie to write them up properly:
The scariest graph you will ever see.
Live Free or Drown, a Wired article about seasteading. I’m really into the Seasteading concept, even before I read this article and learned that the Patri Friedman behind the project is the son of […]

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A tax cheat is now head of the IRS.
Timothy F. Geithner was sworn in as secretary of the Treasury on Monday evening, confirmed by a Senate majority that concluded that his experience in government and finance outweighed concerns about recent disclosures of some $34,000 in past tax delinquencies.
Don’t allow this to lead you to believe […]

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Saying one thing…
“We’ve got to get the job done there and that requires us to have enough troops so that we’re not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous pressure over there.”
Barack Obama
On US troops in Afghanistan
August 14, 2007
…doing another.
Hours after US missiles killed 22 people in Fata, President Barack Obama convened […]

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Iowahawk is a national treasure. This spoof of The Odyssey is an instant classic.
Speak to me, O Muse, of this resourceful man
who strides so boldly upon the golden shrine of Potomac,
Between Ionic plywood columns, to the kleig light altar.
Fair Obamacles, favored of the gods, ascends to Olympus
Amidst lusty tributes and the strumming lyres of […]

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Nothing seems more appropriate.

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If Branford Marsalis keeps speaking truth like this, he’s gonna need a bodyguard.

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