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Libertarians are a people constantly in search of issues to be self-righteous about. This is the problem of a political movement about “freedom” peopled largely by white men with college degrees and above-average incomes: there’s not a lot of freedom they don’t already have, and not a lot of situations where their civil rights are being potentially trampled. The TSA is a wonderful thing for contemporary American libertarianism; it’s one of not many places where a upper middle class Linux engineer can actually stand off against an invasive government.
— From Gawker
Damn you, Fringe
For finally being moving again:
“I just spent the last several days with the other Walter…and I was very surprised to find that he was not the man that I thought he was. But I am not at all surprised that to find that you are.”
“Is at a good thing?”
“Yes, Walter, that is a very good thing.”
What gets me about the survivalists is the idiocy they display in choosing what skills they learn in order to survive. They all go to camps that teach basic small unit infantry tactics, so they can all play Ricky Ranger running around the woods. But none of them study dentristy. None of them learn how to tan leather so they can make shoes to replace the Gortex-lined boots that are eventually going to wear out. All of them buy Rambo knives that can gut a grizzly in one swipe but none of them try to learn blacksmithing so they can make new knives. Those things are too hard. They require thought as well as effort, and that isn’t sexy. That doesn’t make their dicks hard when they brag in the bars about being survivalists. So when everything has run out, when all their ammunition is gone and they can’t make black powder muzzle loaders because none of them had the foresight to build a forge, and they’re naked or wearing nothing but ragged stinking animal pelts and dirt because none of them ever learned how to weave cloth and they weren’t exctited about learning how to grow flax, and they all have scurvy and pallegra and a myriad of skin diseases because none of them knows anything about medicine, they can be proud of the fact that they are the most badass infantry in they new caveman rock throwing army.
One of the few highlights of the Republican Presidential primary is the heartwarming struggle of mentally challenged Texas Governor Rick Perry to be the first person with major cognitive handicaps to become the Presidential candidate of a major political party.
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German Joys: Rick Perry: Turkey is Being Run by “Islamic Terrorists”
Also notable for using the newly-minted adjective “Breivikian” - oh, how proud a Norwegian feels to see a new word added to international parlance. After all, it’s been 60-odd years since “quisling”.
(Source: lordoftheringslove, via wizwoof)
Print pundits have spent decades ascribing declining circulations to inroads made by TV and the internet. Rarely do they make the point that adapting print journalism to be more like TV and the internet — more pictures, shorter articles, more infographics, less analysis, punchier punchier punchier — has conceded the battle by abandoning work that makes print irreplaceable and embracing work that makes print an imitator of a shallower form.
