I got a good mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it

NPR has a great piece talking about the relevancy of the movie Duck Soup, of all things.  It’s funny and interesting and contains this bit of awesome trivia:
In late-’70s Argentina, for instance, a military dictatorship wrecked the country’s economy, deregulating banks and industry, watching living standards decline, and borrowing at high interest rates to create [...]

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Surprisingly Accurate Assessment

On Tuesday night the Daily Show made fun of me.
As reported by The Huffington Post (make sure and watch the video to at least 2:05).

    

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Congratulations Sven and Tamara

Today Annalise and i went to the county clerk’s office and got our marriage license.  While we were there, there was another couple filling out similar paperwork.  The man was middle aged and the woman looked to be in her mid to late twenties.  They were both from Germany with still very thick accents.  They [...]

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Catharsis

I’ll often describe myself as a “born-again agnostic”.  That is, i had a relatively strong faith in a Christian religion at one point but had some sort of awakening in which i began to seriously question.  Now i’m at a point where if there is a god, i believe it doesn’t matter.  It shouldn’t determine [...]

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Around and Around, From Trent Reznor to Jakob Bernoulli

I was going to take a picture of my naked shoulder for this post, but decided instead to just describe what’s inked there.  It’s a spiral and some rectangles.  The rectangles all have the property that the ratio of the length of any longer side to the corresponding shorter side is the same as the [...]

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