Category Archives: Etc

Snowpocalypse With Soundtrack

Yes, it's a Baltimore weather forecast, but it's right next door….

Work. Work. Work.

Little things to tide us over:

• A modest proposal § Unqualified Offerings: “In the future Costco will run law schools.”
• Bumper sticker spotted on the road: “When do we get to vote on your marriage?”
• Gary Farber notes that Jerry Falwell's Liberty Counsel has launched a new program called Adopt a Liberal™. “This program encourages people to pray for those in leadership to restore poor leaders to right thinking.”
• FedThread looks cool.
• So does TinEye which offers handy browser plug-ins.

Uber-geek childcare video: Linux Baby Rocker, found via boingboing's Scripting a PC CD-tray to rock the baby to sleep.

Cute & cool.

Blackboard – Test Prep – Just Following Orders – An Evil Essay – NYTimes.com

The author, who has an SAT-prep-firm, took the test in order to see how essays are graded. As an experiment, he wrote the most morally evil essay he could, praising Nazi eugenics. The official SAT rules don't talk morality, promising high scores to an essay that,

effectively and insightfully develops a point of view on the issue and demonstrates outstanding critical thinking, using clearly appropriate examples, reasons, and other evidence to support its position.

And, indeed, he got high marks.

I am sure this explains something, but due to the low quality of the reasoning in his work while in government I am loath to say that this something is John Yoo.

Jimmy Carer again demonstrates that he's a much better person than he was President: Losing my religion for equality.

This can't have been easy for him.

Happy Bastille Day, or as the French would say, 14 Juillet.

I've always had a soft spot for this holiday.