UPDATE!!

this place is too serious for me.

so if you are interested, i am mainly over here, peopleforthings, and here, thingsthings (travelblog), for now.

yea, and i dont know what i've got with things. but i dont think you can go wrong...

thought this deserved a post: Physicist Neil Turok: Big Bang Wasn't the Beginning.
in my musings i have thought this was it and its cool to have this dude drop some actual science behind it.


ill get an update on Wien soon. it is has been stellar so far.

see you bitches later

bla bla problems of the world bla bla bla
i like you barack, but the 'yes we can' music video a la will.i.am et al., [kind of]scares me. and so far your insubstantive policies are even scarier.what are we starry-eyedly--with tears-- changing to?i've felt it too. want to believeit. oh shit. tending to agree with critics. apprehension mounts. just misanthrope? or legit? back to enigma. kucinich/50 cent 08 bla bla bla


just washed my leederhosen = i am going to austria tomorrow.

well said

I appreciate Saunder's comments and concerns. While I'm not a Clinton or Obama supporter, I honestly can't understand Saunder's arguments about the American economic situation. We can blame Bill Clinton for NAFTA but that treaty is merely a symptom of what I like to think of as a long simmering American disease called free market capitalism. When are voters going to understand and politicians going to admit that this country has never had free markets; furthermore, there are no free markets anywhere in the world. That being an established fact, I'm astonished that our so called leaders--all of them--continue to view free markets as a sort of economic Holy Grail. For decades we had a reasonably balanced economy based on the Fair and New Deal agendas. These policies were abandoned in 1980 in favor of Milton Friedman's free markets. Bill Clinton merely continued policies begun by Reagan and enhanced by Bush I: Bush II accelerated the march to purported free markets. Saunders may not like Hillary Clinton and I can accept and respect that but he had better find a more defensible reason than NAFTA for fighting Clinton's nomination. I suggest he begin arguing against the failed policies of free markets more generally. Friedman's free market ideas may work but the problem has always been that there are no free markets. What our government has done is give away the US economic base in the hope that the rest of the world might see the benefits of free markets. While purporting to endorse free markets our government has selectively discriminated against certain industries in favor of others (specifically the national security complex). In my view, the whole notion of free markets is bull pucky. If we look back at every significant American economic downturn since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, abuses by banks and industry as a root cause. Free markets cannot and should not be expected to regulate themselves; that is the role of government. Almost everyone Democratic politician is guilty of supporting free market policies and until these leaders, including Obama, Edwards, and just about everyone else, publicly rejects the policies that got us where we are today, I can't see that picking on any one Democrat is fair or reasonably. In sum, the problem isn't Hillary Clinton: The free market problem is practically endemic in our political establishment and since they don't historically exist and never will, it would be nice if our leaders took a look at our history and buried these ridiculous ideas once and for all. We need government regulation and we need to establish the same sorts of industrial policies that the rest of the world uses to enhance their domestic economies. This isn't rocket science. -Roger H. Werner

Works well in theory, but now used as unchecked justification for horrendous acts. Get a fucking clue.

the one-dimensional person

what is it? and why is it perhaps the most prevalent meme around us?

from chuck klosterman's sex, drugs, and cocoa puffs.

gimme some pills!

In a review of Christopher Lane's new book, Shyness: How Normal Behaviour Became a Sickness, Guldberg writes:

"Lane writes: ‘Beginning in 1980, with much fanfare and confidence in its revised diagnoses, the American Psychiatric Association added “social phobia”, “avoidant personality disorder”, and several similar conditions to the third edition of its massively expanded Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. In this 500-page volume… the introverted individual morphed into the mildly psychotic person whose symptoms included being aloof, being dull, and simply “being alone”.’ Shyness now allegedly almost rivals depression in magnitude, a ‘sickness’ for which ‘almost 200million prescriptions are filled every year’ in the USA. Apparently, social phobia – shyness – ‘has become a pandemic’, says Lane.

...The sad consequence of this state of affairs is that the range of ‘healthy behaviour’ is being increasingly narrowed. ‘Our quirks and eccentricities - the normal emotional range of adolescence and adulthood – have become problems we fear and expect drugs to fix’ [!!!!!], Lane writes. ‘We are no longer citizens justifiably concerned about our world, who sometimes need to be alone. Our affiliations are chronic anxiety, personality or mood disorders; our solitude is a marker for mild psychosis; our dissent, a symptom of Oppositional Defiant Disorder; our worries, chemical imbalance that drugs must cure.’"

Hmmmmm Lane might point out something a little fishy here. Oh! and I could not agree with it more. Unless I am in the office twelve hours a day, caffeinetedly crunching market research numbers, I probably suffer from 'dont go with the status quo 100%' disorder. I better numb myself. Everyone else is doing it!!!

I suppose, if i do not, the government will take care of it for me. Lets all be happy!!!

exclamation marks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!im super enthused about my shitty shitty job!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!! !!! i cant stop!!!!!! i love it so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and i love you all too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(I have really been considering Scientology of late. Seems like a pretty legit religion. )

i love politics

so wait, "BET founder" is supposed to represent the black vote in this country? yay!!! that is almost better than "a black women with a big tv show."

according to a cnn poll barack pulled ahead amongst black voters today.


romney was questioned after he said he has no lobbyists "running" his campaign. an ap reporter called him out on it. really interesting.