Well, a wild morning here in Vegas as some cranky SOB decided to light his house on fire and go shoot up the federal courthouse because his Social Security check was cut. In 2008.
More on the whole damned sad affair here.
Current Decade Rates as Worst in 50 Years: Overview – Pew Research Center for the People & the Press
Some view on the decade gone by. You know, for those of who convinced the decade just ended.
Sigh.
FT.com / UK – The decade the world tilted east
Some historical looking back on how China have taken the initiative in a variety of areas over the US specifically and the West in general.
A lot of food for thought.
Political Irony › Rovian Privacy
Hypocrisy, thy name is Republican.
More on this cretin violating his marriage vows (for the second time) and why the most recent ex-Mrs. Rove wanted out quickly.
The True Odds of Airborne Terror Chart – Odds of Airborne Attacks – Gizmodo
Thanks to Ned for linking me to this chart based on info from Nate Silver’s data I linked to a bit ago.
Socially-Acceptable Geek Subgenre Scale Gallery – – Gizmodo
This is pretty good for a laugh. Check it out.
Thankfully I don’t clearly hit any of these categories.
Learn to Speak Tea Bag
A bit old, but sadly still relevant.
And, wow, yeah, this is pretty much how they sounded.
Ugly Christmas Sweaters are Cool? | CBS Sunday Morning
A bit old but I forgot to chase down this video awhile back. I like catching Sunday Morning, it’s something Grandpa turned me onto back when Charles Kuralt hosted it. Sue me, I’m was raised in farm country.
What I said at 3 minutes after midnight on the first… | Neil Gaiman’s Journal
Some fantastic words to welcome in the new year:
May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art — write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.
…I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you’ll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you’ll make something that didn’t exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now), that you will, when you need to be, be wise, and that you will always be kind.
Despite Black Princess, Disney’s Race Record Mixed : NPR
I figured it was just a matter of time before this got brought up.
I mean, between Walt’s anti-Semitism and Song of the South, you gotta wonder what took these guys so long in fixing their image.