Betraying the Planet

When I was in school, our meager little Economics department pulled its funds together with the Business department and brought in Paul Krugman as its annual speaker.  It was excellent.  Since I was in a senior seminar economics class at the time, I got to go to a special dinner in honor of Krugman where I saw one of the economics professors at Austin College administer the Heimlich maneuver to my international business professor (also, I got to talk to Krugman about my senior research paper and he said I was writing on a stupid topic).

ALAS…this is a good op-ed on the recent vote on the climate bill (Dubbed ACES).

Paste Magazine did a feature on the top web sites for “Concert out of Context” and they wrote up the French site “La Blogothegue.” Needless to say, I’ve spent most of my Sunday perusing these guerrilla concerts.  The video is the Shins scaring people in Paris.  Enjoy!
Things That Make Me Angry #4: This Article From MSNBC.com About Marriage

The conclusion is correct: marriage is an outdated institution that will most likely lead to divorce, causing heartache and financial instability.  The problem I have with the article is the analysis.  Author Sandra Tsing Loh presents a one-sided argument for why marriage doesn’t work: sexless, uncompassionate, unadventurous, selfish men.

She mentions, but attributes little import, to her own missteps which led to the dissolution of her own marriage (she was unfaithful to a husband who travelled all the time), yet she feels confident in assigning a correlative relationship between the statistic that the majority of divorces are filed by women to a conclusion that failed marriages MUST be the result of men not doing enough or acting contrary to the happiness of their wives.

Angry, angry, angry.

This was Dad giving me an electric guitar on my 14th birthday.  I loved that guitar and I was fucking STOKED when I got it.  Getting an electric guitar completely changed my life.  Thanks, Dad! Happy Father’s Day!

This was Dad giving me an electric guitar on my 14th birthday.  I loved that guitar and I was fucking STOKED when I got it.  Getting an electric guitar completely changed my life.  Thanks, Dad!

Happy Father’s Day!

"No man is pudding."
— Andy from the T.V. show “Weeds” Season 4
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