February 2012
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December 2011
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2012 New Year's Resolutions!
Into mysteries I shall delve in 2012
Salve my immortal soul in 2012
Nothing rhymes with twelve in 2012
Oh man, 2013’s gonna be the year of the bean.
2011 New Years Resolutions Status Check
Don’t Go to Heaven in 2011 - Success
Don’t Watch “Lucky Number Sleven” in 2011 - Success
Eat unleavened bread in 2011 - Most Likely Success
Make a friend named Evan in 2011. - Failed
November 2011
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October 2011
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You should be ashamed of yourself.
American consumers’ long-running love affair with debt is on the rocks. And as they repent for their credit-driven Bacchanalia, the foundering U.S. economy is left to pick up the pieces.
Per Wall St. Journal
Don’t you know that we’ve been borrowing money to make the economy grow for the past 40 years? If we actually start saving money to pay off our debt and stop adding to...
I don't know if you've heard but Chicago is really...
Besides riding on the train and trying to break into buildings to get up on to roofs, what is there to do in this town?
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September 2011
3 posts
But as long as you’re comfortable it feels like freedom - Billy Bragg
Important Nicolas Cage News! →
Could Nic Cage be a vampire (who has the power to go bald and gain weight while aging)? Maybe, an old Civil War era photo that kinda resembles him leads the guy who tried to sell it on ebay to speculate that there may be more to the star of Knowing than meets the eye…
Why am I supposed to vote for this guy again?
Via the Wall Street Journal
President Barack Obama, citing the struggling economy, asked the Environmental Protection Agency on Friday to withdraw an air-quality rule that Republicans and business groups said would cost millions of jobs.
I can’t really think of anything that Obama has fought for that’s going to make any real difference in our lives in 10 years. Health care...
August 2011
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If Only We We're So Effective
Presidential Candidate Michelle Bachmann has found the source of America’s energy problems. It’s those pesky enviro-radicals. In a speech probably written in the early 1980s Bachmann said the USA is “the king daddy dogs (sic) when it comes to energy”.
According to Bachmann the USA is #1 when it comes to energy. Especially when including oil shale we are apparently the...
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5.9 Earthquake hits Virginia; California hit by a...
Haha! Take that you suit wearing defense lobbyists! Man I’ve been dealing with earthquakes my whole life!
I remember Northridge back in ‘94, oh man! The freeways collapsed! We were totally inconvenienced for like a month!
And in 1987 there was Whittier Narrows, I didn’t have to go to school that day!
I was at work one time and I got under my desk, but I really didn’t...
Looking for Another Rich Person to Live on an...
Then http://www.theatlasphere.com/ might be the Ayn Rand themed dating site for you!
Now you can live out “Go Galt” without having to go it alone.
Seagulls Must Love Ice Cream
This Machine Annoys Fascists.
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Cars are the ultimate gateway drug to the obscene levels of status-driven consumption that have sent industrial society into economic collapse and the world into ecological overshoot, helping give us the debt crisis, oil wars and climate change. And that’s just for starters.
If there are cars, then business can crank up car dealers, repair shops, gas stations and places that sell...
Like a dealer telling a junkie he has a problem.
China apparently thinks that the good old US of A is too much in the red. Their official news agency yesterday said that America needs to “cure its addiction to debts” and “live within its means.”
We should listen to China because they’ve been buying our debt like it’s actually a good idea. Sure it’s unsustainable and we’ll probably default in one way or another in the...
Hooray! The Debt Crisis is over. But wait. . .
Another crisis? NO!
As any of you who still have investments in the stock market should know, the DOW Jones Industrial Average dropped 500 points yesterday! Just when you think you can take a breath and enjoy the summer there’s another event waiting to steal everything you’ve ever worked for from you.
Apparently the economic growth we’ve been experiencing has been less growth...
Crisis of Confidence
We are at a turning point in our history. There are two paths to choose. One is a path I’ve warned about tonight, the path that leads to fragmentation and self-interest. Down that road lies a mistaken idea of freedom, the right to grasp for ourselves some advantage over others. That path would be one of constant conflict between narrow interests ending in chaos and immobility. It is a...
July 2011
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Bikes beat planes (when going 40 miles)
http://www.slate.com/id/2299432
It was a bad day for intra-metropolitan area commercial aviation. Jet Blue flight No. 405—the flight that was supposed to help Angelenos beat the chaos resulting from the closure of the 405 freeway—was bested not only by the @wolfpackhustle A team (elite cyclists who had pledged to follow traffic rules), but by @garyridesbikes, a late entrant promising to...
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LAPD Being Totally Uncool About the End of the...
Well, not the end of the world but Carmageddon. Apparently even though the freeway is going to be closed for the weekend, and therefore completely devoid of cars (oh! the dream!), they still won’t let dudes totally chill in the fast lane.
People all over Los Angeles have been requesting to be allowed to bike, BBQ or promote movies on the temporarily abandoned parking lot known as the 405....
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Worst Parts of California Threaten to Secede
Riverside County Supervisor Jeff Stone (Republican) floated the brilliant idea for the counties of Riverside, San Diego, Orange, San Bernardino, Fresno, Kern, Kings, Imperial, Inyo, Madera, Mariposa, Mono and Tulare (otherwise known as the meth, desert and forest counties) to break away from the evil socialist republic to the north and form their own state to be called Southern California. Los...
“Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.”
– Wendell Berry
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Detroit: The Next Hipster Paradise/Future Former...
Think that Detroit is a bombed out wasteland of rusting factories, abandoned houses and shiftless youths patrolling the streets wearing football gear bedazzled with feathers? Well according to a New York Times article straight from the Detroit Chamber of Commerce you’re half right.
Recent census figures show that Detroit’s overall population shrank by 25 percent in the last 10 years. But...
Happy Independence Day!
“He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.”
Thomas Paine
I wish the Rah Rah Pro-America crowd would actually listen to the Founding Fathers rather than use them to their own benefit.
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June 2011
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John was upset to learn that because nobody wanted to watch him surfing the internet in real time his purchase of a wearable camera was a waste.
Intellectual Consumerism →
Within a society where physical consumerism has been the norm, consuming events — we might call it intellectual consumerism — is a real issue. I see it a lot in my native Los Angeles, particularly within the old-style environmental circles. People show up for a meeting or a movie or a political rally, but it doesn’t scratch the surface. There’s no lifestyle change,...
Behind corporate walls, the masters of the... →
In a recent blog post on the Harvard Business Review web site – and praise be to them for publishing it – Haque let rip on some of the absurdities of contemporary business and economic life. “Just ask yourself,” he wrote, “if you were to walk into any corporation, would you find faces brimming over with deep fulfillment and authentic delight – or stonily asking themselves, ‘If it...
Worst Drought in More Than a Century Threatens... →
The worst Texas drought since record-keeping began 116 years ago may crimp an oil and natural- gas drilling boom as government officials ration water supplies crucial to energy exploration.
No! How can we create a runaway global warming trend if the runaway global warming that we’re creating is making it impossible to extract the fossil fuels necessary to create runaway global warming!
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California Redistricting News
The California Citizen’s Redistricting Commission has released their first draft of proposed California congressional districts and Orange County extremist Dana Rohrabacher may be kept where he belongs: Orange County.
The last round of redistricting saw the creation of the 46th district though the connection of conservative Huntington Beach and Rancho Palos Verdes by way of dirty, liberal...
Someone clearly knows how to win me over!
I got this facebook message this morning:
Goldina Froot June 7 at 2:38am
hi there Jim. you appear trendy. message me at ****@hotmail.com to get my non-public photos
OH! You think I’m trendy! Why sure I’ll send you my credit card details.
The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race →
While the case for the progressivist view seems overwhelming, it’s hard to prove. How do you show that the lives of people 10,000 years ago got better when they abandoned hunting and gathering for farming? Until recently, archaeologists had to resort to indirect tests, whose results (surprisingly) failed to support the progressivist view. Here’s one example of an indirect test:...
May 2011
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Mutton Busting too Dangerous?
Try the Calf Scramble! 24 kids, 12 baby cows, one arena. First 12 kids to catch a calf are the winners. All the action of real rodeo sports with more uncoordinated running my calves and children. Man I need to get to a rodeo.
Go get ‘em kids!
Best friends for ever!
It’s a free for all!
They look like they haven’t eaten in a while and the calf is for dinner.
The...
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Mutton Busting
Kids hang on to the necks to sheep who are scared shitless while wearing hockey, baseball or bicycle helmets for the coveted prize of belt buckles.
A Bold Strategy.
This kid knows how to bust some mutton.
Sometimes the kids are as big as the sheep.
Who’s busting whom? Don’t worry the bicycle helmet is keeping him safe.
Most redneck thing ever?
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In the 2012 campaign, environmentalists don't... →
I’m not really interested in liberals who feel the need to defend Obama’s record on the environment just because they supported him in 2008.Sure I supported him and even voted for him but I’ll be damned if I’m not going to say that what his administration is doing is wrong.
Also put on a slow track by the administration are new rules on storing toxic coal ash, an issue...
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I Just Can't Get Enough Volcanoes!
I’ve been back in the USA for about a week now and soon I’m starting a job working for the Xanterra Corporation. They run the hotels in Yellowstone National Park. Keep following my travels at feettotheearth.tumblr.com
March 2011
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I come from the other Land Down Under!
Read about me walking around New Zealand or and some other stuff!
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February 2011
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There's still things going on in New Zealand!
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Keep on reading about New Zealand!
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NOOO! I'm actually missing the Superbowl this...
I thought it was last week! I didn’t know it was today! What will I do without the commercials, cheerleaders and computer animated football helmets that collide and EXPLODE!
January 2011
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NOOO! I'm missing the Superbowl!
I don’t know it was today! What will I do without the commercials, cheerleaders and computer animated football helmets that collide and EXPLODE!
More of my exciting Travel Blog posted here! http://feettotheearth.tumblr.com/
Important updates from New Zealand
How was my flight over?
What does the Northern New Zealand countryside remind me of? What did I accidentally leave on the plane?
Find out in this post or maybe this one!
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Preparing to Leave Long Beach
This is also posted on my soon to be popular travel blog: Feet to the Earth.
Packing is probably one of the worst activities you can willingly put yourself through, other than moving. Unfortunately, I’m doing both at the same time. I’ve boxed my life up into a suburban garage and at the same time tried to make sure that everything I’ll need for the next four months can fit into a...