tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-255696332009-10-14T22:38:39.760-05:00"Good nonsense is good sense in disguise." -- Josh BillingsThe Butterflyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02305018049338250167noreply@blogger.comBlogger1496125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25569633.post-88587617020816949762007-12-12T13:03:00.000-06:002007-12-12T13:04:01.154-06:00

After much discussion, hundreds of emails and quite a few long nights learning new software, we’d like to invite you to come discover, debate and demonstrate at SMILT.We hope to see you there.

Hear No Evilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03345240632545364252noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25569633.post-6292078057893799272007-09-26T15:29:00.000-05:002007-09-26T15:30:06.692-05:00

...this just isn't worth following anymore. I'm through with politics.

The Boyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15805347220075676108noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25569633.post-80969930782414597402007-09-25T21:08:00.000-05:002007-09-25T21:16:56.330-05:00

Well...not a rant per say...just a guarded reaction to news that might be good and might not: the Pirates have hired Neal Huntington to replace Worthless Dave Littlefield as General Manager. Just like the new president they hired a couple weeks ago, Huntington is saying all the right things so far, and he comes from the Cleveland Indians--pretty much exactly the franchise the Pirates need to

The Boyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15805347220075676108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25569633.post-32420532121181127512007-09-24T21:14:00.000-05:002007-09-24T21:14:42.900-05:00

...what's the more perfect example of "I Know You Are, But What Am I?" politics:a) The White House saying Obama is too "intellectually lazy" to be president, orb) Chris Wallace asking Hillary Clinton why she and her husband are so "hyper-partisan"?I'm going with (a) simply on originality points.

The Boyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15805347220075676108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25569633.post-59344950812055979052007-09-22T08:50:00.000-05:002007-09-22T09:23:04.800-05:00

I actually planned a long, Pulitzer Prize eligible piece to end my blogging career on this blog, complete with citations to Paul Kennedy, Jared Diamond, Barbara Tuchman, the latest books by Fred Pearce on water crises and on the speed of our warming. I was going to list all the areas, from corrections to infrastructure, from habeas to imperial, from debt to fiscal paralysis, from Iraq to China,

berlin niebuhrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15524132223656092849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25569633.post-9973755906257219732007-09-21T20:24:00.000-05:002007-09-21T20:28:17.871-05:00

...might as well post the clip that had me screaming "JUST STOP TALKING. PLEASE STOP TALKING. DO NOT SAY ANOTHER WORD IN PUBLIC UNTIL YOU'RE OUT OF OFFICE. MATTER OF FACT, DO NOT SAY ANOTHER WORD IN PUBLIC EVER AGAIN," around 10:05 last night. Seriously, I do not expect anything of any quality out of this man, but I was still very much taken aback by this remark...

The Boyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15805347220075676108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25569633.post-28811671557724329242007-09-21T20:21:00.000-05:002007-09-21T20:23:20.165-05:00

In honor of my #1 song of 2001, it's...my #1 song of 2001. Granted, it's shaky and the sound's not that good, but...no matter...

The Boyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15805347220075676108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25569633.post-85048647229813851862007-09-20T17:08:00.001-05:002007-09-21T20:20:58.671-05:00

Okay, if you lose your cocaine and panic that the guys you work with are going to think you ripped them off, it’s still probably not the greatest idea to call the feds and ask them to say publicly that they had seized the drugs. See, when the drugs later turn up (discovered by Boy Scouts!!!), you’ve, like, confessed, dude.

berlin niebuhrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15524132223656092849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25569633.post-90510020990290896012007-09-20T17:07:00.000-05:002007-09-21T20:21:29.423-05:00

Because we went into Iraq instead of taking care of them.

berlin niebuhrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15524132223656092849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25569633.post-52937610467904363322007-09-20T17:03:00.000-05:002007-09-21T20:21:38.558-05:00

about how Barry Bonds still deserves to be considered a record holder because steroids couldn't make him a better hitter.Steroids can help batters hit 50 percent more home runs by boosting their muscle mass by just 10 percent, a U.S. physicist said on Thursday.Calculations show that, by putting on 10 percent more muscle mass, a batter can swing about 5 percent faster, increasing the ball's speed

berlin niebuhrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15524132223656092849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25569633.post-75731177942778790872007-09-20T16:58:00.000-05:002007-09-21T20:20:58.673-05:00

“If I want to teach someone how to properly kneel or crawl on the floor, I can do that. I don’t have the desire to do that professionally anymore.”Melyssa Donaghy, an Indianapolis dominatrix accused by the city of operating a basement “dungeon” in her home, who agreed to shut down the business to end a lawsuit brought by the city(h/t Governing.com)

berlin niebuhrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15524132223656092849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25569633.post-4493099516579964902007-09-20T16:53:00.000-05:002007-09-21T20:21:07.499-05:00

At least one Australian has sense about global warming. The redoubtable Tim Flannery, of whom we’ve spoken before, and who was actually named Australian of the Year (can a nation really do that?), is sounding the alarm we’ve been screaming here. The warming is happening faster than the models and experts have been predicting. Here’s his major point: Flannery said predictions in a 2001 UN

berlin niebuhrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15524132223656092849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25569633.post-51940055459321136532007-09-19T17:29:00.000-05:002007-09-19T17:30:41.254-05:00

As I was writing my ‘Brain vs iPod: 2002’ piece a few weeks ago, I kind of knew in the back of my head that this would cause me to do one for every year of the decade, and sure enough, it has. Here is 2001...to be followed, I’m sure, by 2003-2006. I’m not going to go with the ‘Brain vs iPod’ thing, though, as the interesting part is simply the ranking itself. So without further adieu...2001 was

The Boyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15805347220075676108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25569633.post-37912793215994979402007-09-19T17:24:00.001-05:002007-09-19T17:26:34.784-05:00

...from, well, a pretty likely source: Sports Guy Bill Simmons.Despite what I might have said in the past about jumping on team bandwagons, you shouldn't feel guilty about jumping on this one. I watched the pilot when it originally aired, but I didn't love it: too much puke-cam (the camera stopped moving so much in later episodes) and an unspeakable sports inconsistency (Dillon High completes a

The Boyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15805347220075676108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25569633.post-74349458081731775202007-09-19T16:50:00.001-05:002007-09-19T17:23:41.564-05:00

Knowing that Elizabeth Hasselbeck is the most prominent face and voice of conservative females on US TV.

berlin niebuhrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15524132223656092849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25569633.post-26724383710715096902007-09-19T16:48:00.000-05:002007-09-19T17:23:19.765-05:00

(IP)—Tom Hanks announced today that, following his project to put Vincent Bugliosi’s recent regurgitation of cherry-picked “facts” and carefully selected witnesses first belched by the Warren Commission on HBO, he will now turn to another well-known case of the solemn and honest government reporting with absolutely no bodies in the closet or axes to grind, the finding of Weapons of Mass

berlin niebuhrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15524132223656092849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25569633.post-71966259976630590092007-09-19T16:42:00.000-05:002007-09-19T17:21:46.959-05:00

Grist links you to Bill McKibben’s book review essay taking down the latest bilge from deniers and obstructionists here. . . . While deniers and obstructionists keep flailing around trying to find one reed that doesn’t break beneath them, major corporations, you know, those well-known liberal, socialist, secular pinkos, are signing up to an agreement to measure the carbon footprints of their

berlin niebuhrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15524132223656092849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25569633.post-90365741429821775852007-09-18T16:11:00.000-05:002007-09-19T13:34:14.408-05:00

Not a good thing. Shows warming occurring, and much faster than the models have been predicting. As we’ve been predicting. Would have preferred being wrong.

berlin niebuhrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15524132223656092849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25569633.post-57357714677706395152007-09-18T16:09:00.000-05:002007-09-19T13:34:14.413-05:00

from a conference David Roberts attended. From one speaker:1. Aggregate global use of fossil fuels will not fall in the next two decades.2. American "energy independence" is an unrealistic pipe dream driving bad policy.3. The Biofuels Initiative won't achieve anything environmentally speaking, and is a grotesque example of pork barrel politics.4. Consumer and lifestyle steps being taken by

berlin niebuhrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15524132223656092849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25569633.post-13338548905595008412007-09-16T21:11:00.001-05:002007-09-16T21:12:39.367-05:00

Helen Mirren and Al Gore must win awards. Can't wait for their big wins at next year's Jammys.

The Boyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15805347220075676108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25569633.post-85047408315013190082007-09-13T21:48:00.000-05:002007-09-13T21:48:35.742-05:00

So The Butterfly got curious and decided she wanted to see the train wreck that was supposedly Britney Spears' performance at the MTV Video Music Awards earlier this week. Here it is:I have to ask...what am I missing? I realize she did a marginally worse job of lip-syncing, and I realize she doesn't have that six pack anymore but...is this really much different than any number of her previous

The Boyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15805347220075676108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25569633.post-37762290195612879422007-09-13T16:48:00.000-05:002007-09-13T21:30:46.239-05:00

Climate Policy puts up a learned post on the risks of climate policy and never once indicates that the amelioration of those risks can create an entire new world of economic investment and development, opening whole new worlds for invention and creativity. It’s this kind of limited thinking, even by those who have voices in the actual policymaking, that will limit and prevent us from making the

berlin niebuhrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15524132223656092849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25569633.post-2110278813917349042007-09-12T21:23:00.001-05:002007-09-12T21:35:57.746-05:00

I've been occupying myself with other projects for the last while, and I apologize to you, blog, for being neglectful. To ween myself back onto posting, I'm starting easy...hello, Random 10!1. Backwater, Meat Puppets2. Jack-A-Roe, Bob Dylan3. Jazzy Bells, Outkast4. Bu$hleaguer, Pearl JamIt's amazing to think that four years ago, Pearl Jam caused a hand-wringing storm by performing this song

The Boyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15805347220075676108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25569633.post-15999787820226215682007-09-12T17:24:00.000-05:002007-09-12T21:36:57.065-05:00

The London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) said in its annual review of world affairs that governments needed to do more to tackle a resurgent Al-Qaeda as well as limit the damage from global warming.Its 400-page report assessed that global events from May 2006 to June 2007 were "discouraging," expressing disappointment that bloody violence in Iraq and Afghanistan had

berlin niebuhrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15524132223656092849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25569633.post-41811414324729492962007-09-12T17:22:00.000-05:002007-09-12T21:36:25.414-05:00

Russian 'sex day' to boost birthsNo, you can't be a commie now.

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