Fire Bernanke. Fire Geithner. No one who has ever worked at GS should ever be allowed to work in government again. They shouldn’t be allowed to show their face in public, but I’ll settle for barring them from government. And when I say “fire,” I mean “arrest.” If you’re too big to fail, you’re too […]
Tagged OWSIf for some reason you think this is justified, you can watch the whole thing. Your right to peaceably assemble for the redress of grievances, and how you may do it, and what you may say, will be defined by the police power of the state, backed by its political establishment and the business elite. […]
Tagged OWSWhy is NPR interviewing a theoretical string physicist, someone as far removed from experiment as it’s possible to be and still in be in physics, about OPERA’s new experimental FTL neutrino results? Arrgh.
Why do I feel like I’m living in a Robert A. Heinlein novel, and not one of the cool ones with moving walkways and moon colonies?
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. Charles P. Pierce says it better than I: Your right […]
Tagged OWSSidney Coleman, on his time at Caltech: Caltech, at that time was (and still is) a much smaller school than this. There were something like a thousand students, graduate and undergraduate together when I was at Caltech. Also it was out in Pasadena so it was the Caltech students, the Caltech faculty and a bunch […]
Tagged quoteOK, I’m a dinosaur. I still buy CDs rather than MP3s. I like the physical backup. Hard disks die with alarming regularity. I like having access to the original hi-fi mix, even though the first thing I do is rip it (to 256 kbps VBR AAC, a reasonable compromise between quality acceptable for most of […]
SuperShuttle. Never again. Three hours to the airport, an hour of which was within one mile of my house, sitting on a metal support sticking out of the seat. Three hours getting home, driving around the airport, Bell, South Gate, and Monterey Park. Neither time because of traffic. Just idiotic choices by the driver. Both […]
If you work hard, and become successful, it does not necessarily mean you are successful because you worked hard […] Success requires hard work, but so does working three jobs just to keep your family fed, and the latter usually precludes the former. Lots of self-made people forget that there’s a fair amount of, well, […]
Tagged OWSBoulder is San Francisco for white people.
When you read an article about your subject in the NYT Tuesday Science section, and realize they got it all wrong. Then you read the next article and think, “Wow, how cool that they figured that out.” Even though you know that those scientists are also tearing their hair out about how the NYT Science […]
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