May 2013
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Everything You Need to Know About Bitcoin →
An entirely virtual currency is suddenly making waves around the world. Here’s what you need to know.
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Internet Taxation Coming Soon to a Link Near You →
An online sales tax is starting to look inevitable. What’s driving it, and is it a good idea?
April 2013
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On bias: you're doing it wrong
We hear much wailing and gnashing of teeth these days about bias. We hear it from all walks of life, and from all political affiliations, but we hear it in particular from American conservatives, who as a class seem to feel as persecuted and under siege as Christians under the Romans at circus time. Daily you hear shrieking on every internet comment section ever, about the tyrannical, unfair,...
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March 2013
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February 2013
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Craft Beer vs Wine: A Food Pairing Smackdown
Part I
Everyone knows that beer goes well with pizza and pub food, but wine is a better, more sophisticated match for everything else – especially cheese — right?
Wrong.
In fact you couldn’t be more wrong if you were molesting a goat while wearing Crocs.
The idea that wine is superior to beer seems to have first come about around 1000 years ago when the Normans (French) conquered England...
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WatchRolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi slams the big bank’s complete absence of accountability and the Justice Department’s defacto ‘two-tiered’ justice system for bankers compared to everyone else.
January 2013
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WatchThe Untouchables - A PBS Frontline documentary exploring why, four years after Wall St melted down the entire world financial system, not a single Wall St executive has gone to jail for fraud.
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Would-be critic slams "Django Unchained", despite...
Is Tavis Smiley some kind of home-grown Third World theocrat? Who else has the chutzpah to hurl furious denouncements at a piece of art they haven’t even seen, other than Iranian Mullahs?
You may be asking — who is Tavis Smiley, and why should I care? Smiley is a Mississippi-born, Los Angeles-based African American talk show host, author, liberal political commentator, entrepreneur,...
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December 2012
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November 2012
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October 2012
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September 2012
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August 2012
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“I don’t believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe in pleasures. People who...”
– Ira Glass to the New York Times Sunday Book Review. Ira Glass: By the Book. (via futurejournalismproject)
June 2012
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May 2012
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The GoogaMooga experience: not so great
I was more excited than a 13 year-old discovering porn when I heard about the Great GoogaMooga Experience. New York’s finest in craft beer! Fancy food! And free music! In a lush park in Brooklyn!
Ok maybe not more excited, but as excited. Ahem.
[[MORE]]Anyway, it turned out to be the cluster fuck from ‘Nam. The weather could not have been more perfect, and the setting was fantastic,...
April 2012
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January 2012
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This is crony capitalism.
Crony capitalism - a capitalist economy in which success in business depends on close relationships between business people and government officials.
UPDATE/DISCLAIMER: The post at lewrockwell.com I listed as the source has been updated with more information about the origin of these diagrams. They were created by Stephanie Herman and are now accompanied by links to geke.us. I did not create...
December 2011
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!!! (20)
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November 2011
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-20) →
Wiener Philharmoniker (43)
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RJD2 (18)
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A brief history of the cocktail
I recently blogged about the incredible renaissance of American beer brewing going on right now, but there’s another concoction that’s also enjoying a resurgence of intoxicating creativity and quality - yes, crack - but I’m referring to the cocktail.
While the origins of the word cocktail are murkier than a politician’s soul, some say the first printed use of the word is...
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tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE INANIMATE OBJECT?
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-6) →
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Scamming the scammers
Is it wrong to take pleasure in the mocking of people who are trying to defraud you? A friend of a friend forwarded an email discussion where a would-be scammer from Ghana gets the tables turned. This friend of a friend is a big fan of the New York Mets baseball team (who are usually pretty terrible, including this year), and in particular, former Mets catcher Mike Piazza.
Transcript follows...
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October 2011
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WatchWith the help of Republican strategist Noelle Nikpour, The Daily Show’s Assif Mandvi goes behind the scenes to expose scientists and their nefarious plots to steal the public’s money.
“Scientists are scamming the American people left and right”, warns Nikpour, “for their own financial gain!”
Science may claim it’s working to cure disease, save the planet...
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