Daily Archives: April 5, 2012
What I Did With My Afternoon
Posted on April 5, 2012 64 Comments
Got the #GOPWarOnCaterpillars hashtag to trend worldwide on Twitter. Context: While discussing whether the GOP was carrying on a general War on Women with recent abortion access legislation in various states, Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus pooh-poohed the idea, saying: If the Democrats said we had a war on caterpillars and every mainstream media […]
Scalzi Shakes His Cane At The Kids’ Music Today
Posted on April 5, 2012 62 Comments
The song in question: “Ass Back Home” by Gym Class Heroes: It’s a song in the genre of “Musician pines for his woman back home while he’s out on the road, totally not partaking in groupies,” the most famous of which for my generation is Journey’s lighter-launcher “Faithfully.” The song itself is actually not bad, […]
Warning: Objects May Be Dorkier Than They Appear in Photo
Posted on April 5, 2012 76 Comments
Folks over at Google announced Google Glass yesterday, their plan to put video screens into your glasses, and showed off their prototype by wrapping them around the heads of some very attractive people (See Lyndon and Emily, above) as a way to show how having a monitor being strapped to your head could be handsome […]
The Big Idea: David J. Silbey
Posted on April 5, 2012 12 Comments
The famous maxim says that history is written by the winners. But happens when the other side not only doesn’t write a history, but can’t? This was the challenge that Cornell historian David J. Silbey faced when writing The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China — The Boxers, mostly Chinese peasants, were ill-equipped […]
This Year’s Dewey Donation System Charity Drive Is ON
Posted on April 5, 2012 6 Comments
My friend Pamela Ribon, in addition to being one of the funniest human beings in the history of the known world, also has a philanthropic side, which comes out every year with the Dewey Donation System, her drive to connect books with needy libraries in the United States and abroad. As someone who is big […]
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