Homage to Icarus

Getting on the ele­va­tor this morn­ing, it turned out I should have waited. Some woman was yelling at some­one on the ele­va­tor about how he should sup­port health-care, and some ran­dom­ness about the unnamed politi­cian who’s bumper sticker adorned his jacket was so ter­ri­ble and such.
She con­tin­ued to rant at him all the way up to […]

Let me pref­ace this by stat­ing a few things: if you are going to tell me that girls are inher­ently bad at tech­nol­ogy, pro­gram­ming, or are get­ting their panties in a twist, please fuck the fuck off. I feel con­fi­dent in judg­ing you a waste of an oppor­tu­nity for a per­fectly good pair of ovary […]

Remember that line from An Inconvenient Truth, shortly after the ani­ma­tion of Lower Manhattan under­wa­ter, about how there are more things than just ter­ror­ism to be con­cerned about?
Turns out that’s even more pre­scient (via) than he was likely aware at the time.

[There’s a whole bunch of mean­der­ing aca­d­e­mic pon­tif­i­cat­ing and me tak­ing myself too seri­ously. About two thirds of the way down it gets really good, though. I promise. Also, the woman is now online and back in school. –JC]
So appar­ently, some­one was try­ing to take online courses, ordered the cheap­est Dell with a CD  —  which happens […]

By select­ing Tim Geithner as his Treasury sec­re­tary, Barack Obama has opted for a fig­ure who plau­si­bly rep­re­sents change while also offer­ing a high degree of con­ti­nu­ity with both the Paulson Treasury and its Clinton admin­is­tra­tion pre-decessors. Krishna Guha, Geithner ready for top job as Treasury chief, Financial Times, 2009-11-23
How can you read that and […]