“ But I’ll tell you what they don’t want. They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. That’s against their interests. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around the kitchen table and figure out how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago. You know what they want? Obedient workers – people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork but just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, reduced benefits, the end of overtime and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it. And, now, they’re coming for your Social Security. They want your fucking retirement money. They want it back, so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street. And you know something? They’ll get it. They’ll get it all, sooner or later, because they own this fucking place. It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it. You and I are not in the big club.
Mad Suburban Dad
Kids, Parenting, Gadgets, Web 2.0, Books, Music, Whatever ........
June 23, 2008
June 4, 2008
1 month agoA car hits a group of cyclists in Mexico. A horrifying event and an incredible photograph.
Black and White Twins - A mixed-race British mom, Kylie Hodgson, gave birth in 2005 to twins, one of each. No, not a boy and a girl. Two girls — one black, the other white. The odds of such a birth are about a million to one, experts said. Although occurrences of this nature sometimes occur when a woman conceives twins fathered by two different men, this was a much rarer case in which a single pairing produced twins with distinctly different physical attributes (e.g., skin tone, hair color, eye color) rather than a blending of their parents’ characteristics.1 month ago
April 18, 2008
Stereotypical Tumblr User Checklist
2 months ago
- use a mac: No
- are twenty something: No
- take polaroids: No
- live in nyc: No
- wish you lived in nyc: No
- draw sometimes: No
- upload videos to vimeo to fit in: No
- have a muxtape: No
- work for collegehumor/vimeo/bustedtees: No
- are a vegetarian: No
- are a photographer by profession or hobby: No
- like cats more than dogs: No
- like yarn more than cats do: NO
- have an interest in typography: No
- would vote for obama if you voted, which you don’t: No comment
- take pictures of yourself: No
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April 16, 2008
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2 months ago
2 months agoYou ever look around your desk and think, “What the fuck am I doing here? I should be doing something more meaningful than this.”
And then you realize you like health insurance.
April 15, 2008
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April 13, 2008
“ Of course, both Clinton and McCain are serial liars, but they speak to the American people the way one speaks to slow children, pander to their prejudices and rarely try to make them think about the real challenges the nation faces. It’s not merely that a black man can’t be elected president in America. It’s that a smart, honest person who treats citizens as adults and challenges them to think can’t be elected. That would be too “elitist.” Enjoy President McCain.
April 11, 2008
2 months agosomeecards is looking for a Lead Developer
As TechCrunch reported yesterday, my buddies Brook and Duncan just took a round of financing to run their site someecards.com full-time. They’re looking to make their first hire, a lead developer to run the tech show over there. If you know somebody who might be interested, I wouldn’t recommend any opportunity higher.
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2 months ago
April 9, 2008
The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational
2 months agoThe Washington Post’s Mensa Invitational once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter and supply a new definition.
This year’s winners.
1. *Intaxication*: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.
2. *Reintarnation*: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
3. *Bozone* (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.
4. *Foreploy*: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.
5. *Cashtration* (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.[more here….]
April 8, 2008
