On To Nowhere Island! In The Middle Of The Sea
Do they ever eat the penguins?
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On How To Bring A Bike On The New York City Subway
@freetzy From this litany of purely selfish reasons we can safely conclude that people who bring bikes on subways really are the douchescapades that everyone assumes they are.
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On Contrasting Visions Of 2112: Gail Collins v. Neil Peart
And lo! The ladies fled the thread.
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On The Horror Of The Seventies
I try to be charitable, but when I hear about people (invariably 'conservatives') say they want to get rid of the EPA, I find myself thinking "you're mentally retarded". And I don't mean that as an insult. It's more like a clinical diagnosis.
In the same way you can have functional drunks, you can have functional idiots. The difference is that the drunks are more fun to hang out with, and much better for the ducks.
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On The Livestream Ended: How I Got Off My Computer And Onto The Street At Occupy Oakland
Same thought here - got off the twitter, and went down to see for myself. Passive observer at first, then an enthusiastic wrangler of votes. Loved the "96.3% in favor" decision. The masses may have been unwashed, but they were very *very* articulate, and (unlike banks) very attuned to collateral damage, and the avoidance of it. Go humans.
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On What's Really Pornographic? The Point of Documenting Detroit
Between 400 and 450, when the barbarians were sacking shit left, right, and center, Rome's population dropped to 200k, down from a million or so ~100 CE. And it kept dropping, going down to 75k-100k by 500, and bottoming out in the 20k-30k range.
No ruin porn, though. That came later. http://bit.ly/omznEM
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On My Gigwalk Experiment
The job seems iffy, but your dress is spot on.
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On The Awesome Houseboat That Weed Built
Sort of unrelated, but sort of not, Salman Khan delivered a fantastic TED talk about education, about how it's presently back-asswards, and how his properly oriented model is kicking ass (with data!)
I mention this because 'David' sounds like exactly the kind of kid who gets shafted by the current approach, and who would be considered properly brilliant by a healthier, happier, and more humane educational system. I'm pretty sure that a society that got this right would also avoid the screaming error of sticking a dude like this in Rikers.
http://www.ted.com/talks/salman_khan_let_s_use_video_to_reinvent_education.html
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On Do Not Under (Almost) Any Circumstances Buy a Home
@skyslang You mean when people realize that their mortgage + property tax + insurance + upkeep (and that includes time, hassle, and trips to Home Depot) is cheaper than their rent.
The mortgage deduction may tip things in favor of ownership. Then again, flat or declining market rates (i.e. a negative return on equity) may continue to work in factor of renting. But mortgage alone? That's just a fraction of it.
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On 'The Secret History': I Know What You Did Last Reading Period
@oudemia I went there too, and we're three numbers apart. How's that for claustrophobic?