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"Even given my status as an Old Guy Who Loves Facebook — a phenomenon of the modern age characterized..."

Tue, 22 May 2012 11:23:23 -0400

“Even given my status as an Old Guy Who Loves Facebook — a phenomenon of the modern age characterized by aggravated carpal-tunnel syndrome, a weirdly revived devotion to high-school chums, and a proclivity for throwing old Van Morrison videos out to a gaping world — I have to admit that the giddy national pageant attending Friday’s Facebook IPO has left me awfully cold, and awfully pessimistic that this country ever is going to get its economic house in order in anything resembling a fair and just way. Entire news networks dedicating huge blocks of time, the way they once went live for hours covering the Mercury program, to the release of a stock onto the market. People waiting outside in Times Square for the magic moment, as though it were New Year’s Eve or VJ Day, and everyone acting as though this whole thing is some kind of national triumph rather than a simple mechanism by which an incredibly wealthy recluse will become an unimaginably wealthy recluse. We get together to cheer for stock. We get together to cheer for money. We get together to cheer for zillionaires, and not a dime of it is ever going to filter down to any of those people waiting behind the barriers in New York, watching the price of the stock tick upwards as though they all had a personal stake in it. If we cheer for big money simply as big money, we’re simply never going to get right again. If we pretend to be vicariously rich in order to avoid the fact that so many of us are becoming unnecessarily poor, if the shift of the national wealth has within it elements that we’re willing to root for as though they were the U.S. Olympic Plutocrats Team, we will get ourselves suckered again and again. This was a triumph of the insiders, of the people who concocted credit-default swaps and collateralized debt obligations, and the people who will do it again, over and over, unless a more critical eye is placed upon them by the institutions of self-government. This does nothing to ameliorate the effects of our rigged casino economy. It solves nothing connected to wealth inequality or unemployment. It is magic numbers on the screen to which only a very few people have the password, and they’re not sharing it with anyone.”

- Charles P. Pierce (via azspot)

azspot:David Fitzsimmons

Tue, 22 May 2012 11:02:49 -0400

azspot:David Fitzsimmons

via Super Punch: American Illustration #31 (part 5)

Sat, 19 May 2012 12:25:46 -0400

via Super Punch: American Illustration #31 (part 5)

mabelmoments: Photographs: Thomas Poulsom Birds made from...

Sat, 19 May 2012 12:23:28 -0400

mabelmoments:

Photographs: Thomas Poulsom

Birds made from Lego

WANT!

elephanttusk: nature, man. This reminds me. I need to go feed...

Sat, 19 May 2012 12:17:02 -0400

elephanttusk:

nature, man.

This reminds me. I need to go feed my plants.

Krusty (Taken with Instagram at The Simpsons Ride)

Fri, 18 May 2012 18:19:51 -0400

Krusty (Taken with Instagram at The Simpsons Ride)

"I’m not familiar precisely with exactly what I said, but I stand by what I said whatever it was."

Thu, 17 May 2012 16:52:01 -0400

“I’m not familiar precisely with exactly what I said, but I stand by what I said whatever it was.”

- Mitt Romney

Baseball final forfeited because of girl at second base

Tue, 15 May 2012 10:05:08 -0400

Baseball final forfeited because of girl at second base:

The Arizona Charter Athletic Association state championship baseball game wasn’t played Thursday night because Mesa Prep’s second baseman is a girl.

Paige Sultzbach, a freshman, is playing baseball because her high school doesn’t offer girls softball. But the school Mesa Prep was to face in the final, Our Lady of Sorrows Academy, said its boys would not compete against a team with a girl and forfeited the game - and the state title - to Mesa Prep.

“As a Catholic school, we promote the ideal of forming and educating boys and girls separately during the adolescent years, especially in physical education,” Our Lady of Sorrows said in a statement, according to CNN affiliate KTVK.

Yeah! She should be at home making somebody a sammich. *headdesk*

Comment gold:

Reading news here in Russia, every day I get more and more confirmation that Arizona is a one of the most idiotic place on Earth. Right there after Russia.

"How to terrify your cow: Tell her that McDonalds has sold about as many Hamburgers as there are..."

Tue, 15 May 2012 09:39:33 -0400

“How to terrify your cow: Tell her that McDonalds has sold about as many Hamburgers as there are Stars in our Milky Way galaxy”

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

St. George and the Dragon (Taken with Instagram at Germany...

Mon, 07 May 2012 17:29:50 -0400

St. George and the Dragon (Taken with Instagram at Germany Pavilion)

Through The Megaphone (Taken with instagram)

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 06:46:34 -0400

Through The Megaphone (Taken with instagram)

Ghost Host (Taken with Instagram at The Haunted Mansion)

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 21:12:15 -0400

Ghost Host (Taken with Instagram at The Haunted Mansion)

The Quacker (Taken with Instagram at Cinderella Castle)

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 20:22:59 -0400

The Quacker (Taken with Instagram at Cinderella Castle)

Beer Paddle (Taken with Instagram at Mellow Mushroom)

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 18:55:18 -0400

Beer Paddle (Taken with Instagram at Mellow Mushroom)

Cruz de Borgoña (Taken with Instagram at Castillo De San Marcos)

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:51:41 -0400

Cruz de Borgoña (Taken with Instagram at Castillo De San Marcos)

Old Fort (Taken with Instagram at Castillo De San Marcos)

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:38:27 -0400

Old Fort (Taken with Instagram at Castillo De San Marcos)

Frond Roof (Taken with Instagram at Old Florida Museum)

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:31:07 -0400

Frond Roof (Taken with Instagram at Old Florida Museum)

4454 (Taken with instagram)

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:49:57 -0400

4454 (Taken with instagram)

Morning Practice (Taken with Instagram at Lake Maitland)

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 09:12:32 -0400

Morning Practice (Taken with Instagram at Lake Maitland)

Park Ave CDs (Taken with Instagram at Park Ave CDs)

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 06:11:36 -0400

Park Ave CDs (Taken with Instagram at Park Ave CDs)