Plunderbund

Eric just had his third child: Liam, 7-7 & 19″, born at 5:09 AM. His posting will, obviously, be light.
Congrats, Eric & Holly. Great name for the kid, BTW.

Building a house is incredibly draining - I opened my RSS reader in something like 2 weeks, I fell two weeks behind on watching TDS and Colbert, and I don’t even read my own blog daily right now… and we’re still trying to spec out the home and haven’t picked a builder!
So here’s a little […]

Was reading the Dispatch online while eating lunch, and stumbled across this gem.
Republican state Sen. Joy Padgett says many flags carried in parades around Ohio are not made in the country they represent. Testifying before a Senate panel yesterday, Padgett said it was paramount that Ohio bar the sale of flags manufactured in China and […]

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Army Holds Annual ‘Bring Your Daughter To War’ Day

I mentioned earlier that Larry Bartels has a new book about how Democratic Presidencies are significantly correlated with better economic growth. Some economists - Paul Krugman is one - are unsure what to make of this.
So what’s going on? Paul Krugman says he’s uncertain about Bartels’s results because he can’t figure out a “plausible […]

It’s true - since 1948 a Democratic White House has meant higher economic growth across all economic classes, especially poorer people, but also for the richest people in society.
Bartels shows in his book that this difference is not a statistical artifact or a fluke. It is not the result of Democrats coming to power […]

Don’t have anything particularly funny, and in fact I’ve been so busy I haven’t read my RSS feeds in over a week. So, here’s a trailer for what looks like a pretty awesome sci-fi action film you might not have heard of. (The Appleseed stuff is written by the guy who created Ghost […]

Man, this is some funny satire. Look out for that homosexual agenda!

Sigh.

The more widespread this stuff becomes, the more likely we fall further and further behind the rest of the world technologically.

I’ve featured nerdcore before in this series; specifically the very fun MC Frontalot.
Tonight, it’s ytcracker, replete with 8-bit samples and some seriously obscure references. Enjoy something you’ll probably never hear on ClearChannel. (Language warning.)

Fun fact - he’s swiping at mc chris in this song. mc chris voiced Hesh on Sealab 2021 as […]

I’m almost done reading Manufacturing Consent by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky, and I have to say that 20 years after it’s publication, it still rings true. It is very easy to see how the “propaganda model” of mass media still has validity, and how it has impacted coverage of the 7 years […]

Eric wrote this earlier today in reaction to Obama’s speech about race.
I got the sense today that Barack Obama was tired. Tired of the hatred and fear-mongering insanity that has gripped not just Republicans, but Democrats as well. I know I get tired when I have to endure the same types of slurs I saw […]