A small shot of brains!
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Bonddad writes:
But, let's say the government spends $400 billion on something like ... infrastructure. This would serve two important ends. First, a lot of the unemployed are blue collar, manual labor employees. Infrastructure spending would give them jobs. Secondly, this investment would have a multiplier effect, meaning we would get a lot more out of the investment than we put in. Ever wonder why the economy grew really strongly in the 1960s? A big reason is we started building the highway system in the 1950s, thereby enabling us to move goods more efficiently across the country.
Folks -- this really isn't that complicated. It's really not. The problem is there are politicians involved. The Republicans have embraced an anti-intellectual agenda for so long that they have lost the general ability to reason. The Democrats have absolutely no business sense or leadership ability. Hence, we get the worst of all worlds: one party that is stupid and another that hates business and can't make a decision. Great.
Smart: Repurpose a cookbook stand into a laptop stand. I've tried this. It works.
Johnathan Chait finds this nutshell from William Kristol: "Real men don't need experts to tell them whose asses to kick."
Because Bush kicked the right asses, and ended his career on a high note, with two military campaigns well on their way to indisputable moral and material victories, the United States' reputation better than it has ever been, and an economy humming along lifting all boats.
Right?
Police rescue two Christians from hateful protest against "Ground Zero Mosque." Why? Because they looked Middle Eastern.
Go ahead. Prove to me that the right-wing sentiment in this country doesn't have a huge racist faction, and quietly averts its responsibility from answering them, because it needs the votes.
Dream From his Stepfather. A fascinating look at how Lolo Soetoro, Barack Obama's stepfather, may have influenced the young Obama.
35 different push-ups. Check out the Aztec push-up. I doubt that young man can do 20, much less 100.
How to do a proper pull-up.. Because you need to do these, too. I just added squats (Hindu squats, to be exact) to my routine, on the advice of my physiotherapist.
The popular organizing tip you should never do. Which one? "Catalog your stuff." If you can't at a glance know what books you have on your bookshelf, you have too many books. I know, that sounds impossible, but really: buy more bookshelves, or take some to the used bookstore. The same is true of everything else. If the native method of finding it doesn't work, you have too much of it. Get rid of some. In the case of my music, I didn't have it cataloged, but I didn't have it organized either. I've put it all on a 320GB hard drive, and now it's accessible.
Anti-contraceptive activists oppose "Plan C." A new drug, Ulipristol, is approved for use in Europe, but not in the US, and is safe as a contraceptive up to five days after unprotected sex. Anti-contraceptive activists are fighting to make sure it's never available in the US.
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Date: 2010-06-10 04:20 pm (UTC)Of course. If they had to protest every single store that would sell it, you'd have maybe one sign-wielding nutbag every fifth Costco at best. Tends to dilute the message when actual numbers are shown to be smaller than advertised.
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Date: 2010-06-10 04:38 pm (UTC)I tried to explain to a coworker that racism is still out there. Strangley he didn't see it - I can't imagine why he doesn't have problems in the outlying areas of Central Texas...
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Date: 2010-06-15 07:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-16 01:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-10 04:52 pm (UTC)There are certain physical items which might merit cataloging. For instance, I have a whole bunch of spare electronics parts. Which parts? No idea. I'm sure there are some microcontrollers, some RLC things, probably a few TTL chips, some plugs of various sorts, perfboard, wires, and so forth. But if I wanted to do a project and was wondering what microcontrollers I had on hand, it'd take me a while to search through it all and verify what I have. I should either catalog it (which might just consist of putting lists on the lids of the boxes) or get rid of it all, because if I can't find things it's just clutter.
I agree on the books, though. Sort, but don't catalog, unless you have really ambitious plans for your personal library.
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Date: 2010-06-10 05:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-10 08:25 pm (UTC)Yeah. They form lynch mobs instead, and kill the wrong guy.
That's why we have courts that mete out justice, using the advice of experts, instead of "real men".
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Date: 2010-06-12 04:26 am (UTC)Tools, the lot of them...
"don't catalog your stuff" is a load of horse-hockey...
Date: 2010-06-14 04:23 pm (UTC)"Even for insurance purposes, a photo of a collection will generally suffice."
Um, no. I have a Readerware database to list my books. This is in part because I have a *lot* of books, some of them very expensive, and if there is (gods forbid!) a need to make an insurance claim to get some or all of them replaced, I want to be able to hand the list to the insurance company and say "Yes, in fact, I *do* need $50,000 to replace my books." Just handing them a stack of photos wouldn't cut it--many of my books don't have the titles on the spines.
"Maintaining a catalog means sitting at your computer typing it up, formatting it, and updating it regularly."
Um, also no. There's Librarything. There's Readerware, which works with USB barcode scanners and I don't have to type a single thing. There is other software out there to do book and media cataloging, too.