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Sarah Palin as McCain's running-mate
named their first son Track because he was born in that sport's season.
With criteria like that, I'm surprised the other kids weren't named Duck, Deer, Bear and Football.
posted to MetaFilter by kuujjuarapik
at 6:28 AM on August 30, 2008
Perhaps she is a secessionist, and wants her baby born in her own country, not in the United States.
Baby Country First!
posted to MetaFilter by kuujjuarapik
at 12:55 PM on September 3, 2008
Uh, no it's not. Why do you want to assume race has anything to do with this?
Several hundred pasty faced white folk on the floor of the convention dutifully chanting "Country First!" and apparently unaware of its similarities to that other chant "Uber Alles!", perhaps?
posted to MetaFilter by kuujjuarapik
at 10:27 AM on September 4, 2008
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Pharma reps from another planet
the actors that have to sink to taking these kinds of jobs
I'm not in pharma myself, but in my limited experience these are not actors, but actual sales reps shanghaied by the marketing dept.
XMLicious has it right about fallacious information coming from above. Before anyone starts calling these people "scum" and "not human", remember that these people often have less than perfect knowledge of what... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kuujjuarapik
at 2:39 PM on August 28, 2008
They damn well better know pretty much everything there is to know about the drug. Don't blame me if I expect to hold them to that standard.
They damn well ought to know everything that they are told about that drug, that is the standard that they are held to. To blame the sales force for the cover up of the danger of vioxx is barking up the wrong tree.
It's impossible for me to believe that... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kuujjuarapik
at 5:32 PM on August 28, 2008
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"A national debt will be to us a national blessing." Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of Treasury,1780
As Milton Friedman long ago taught us, government spending is the ultimate tax on the economy: It extracts real resources from productive, private use and puts them to unproductive, public use.
Like roads and highways, schools, hospitals, sewer and water, airports for business travelers, giant fucking sports stadii, the enforcement of the laws and treaties under which business is done, etc. It's hard to have any respect for or faith in anyone who... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kuujjuarapik
at 9:19 AM on August 26, 2008
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A Beautiful Place to Die
Hiked it many times, packed sweaters, no cell phone, no one died. People regularly do far stupider shit in cars. It's just that dying in a car is much more banal, and the risks one takes in cars doesn't trigger an appropriate sense of the actual mortality involved with automobiles. It's the fear of an uncommon risk that sells papers.
But I'd still rather read any fluff article in the Globe than the NY Times Style section any day.
posted to MetaFilter by kuujjuarapik
at 9:54 PM on August 15, 2008
No, but not every other motorist on the road is a volunteer. And I would be willing to bet that more samaritans, cops and other rescue personnel are picked off roadside than on the mountains.
I know what you are saying, and I agree that casual risks should be avoided. And maybe there should be some zones in dangerous places that are truly "at your own risk", where rescue is not an option. But in the grand scheme of things, 135 fatalities in 150 years is an... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kuujjuarapik
at 10:47 PM on August 15, 2008
wind was blowing so hard across that open front that it sucked all the air out and I couldn't breathe
Nope.
posted to MetaFilter by kuujjuarapik
at 10:56 PM on August 15, 2008
Still nope. Have you seen any of the AMC shelters on Mt Washington?
posted to MetaFilter by kuujjuarapik
at 12:31 AM on August 16, 2008
MeFi post:
National Geographic Map of the Day
can't quite afford a subscription yet
IMO, the subscription is not worth the amount of direct marketing phone calls, mailings and assorted crap that they subject you to. It is especially annoying that the magazine often runs "Earth in Peril by Humans" stories, and then dumps a ton of unread paper in your recycling bin. I'm letting my subscription lapse.
I still love the maps, though. Thanks for the post.
posted to MetaFilter by kuujjuarapik
at 11:33 AM on August 15, 2008
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Our Phony Economy.
How Canada stole the American Dream.
I often ask myself this when I cross the Niagara River and see the well maintained parkland in Canada, when the parkland on the American side is often just busted glass and weeds. It occurs to me that everyday life in America might just could be made a little more tolerable if our government didn't spend so much on defense. It also occurs to me that Canada must have been a great beneficiary of American defense... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kuujjuarapik
at 9:03 AM on August 12, 2008
Chunking Express: what countries out there are just itching to take Canada down?
not to extend the derail much further, but it takes just a cursory look at the history of Belgium to know that it is not necessary to be the target of aggression to have your way of life ruined. You just need to be in the right place in the right time.
ROU: that bit of America would be in better shape if the chemical industry in NF,NY... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kuujjuarapik
at 2:47 PM on August 12, 2008
epic fucked-up-edness of local and regional government
Absolutely. Which is kind of the point of the article, if your measurements can't help you move in a positive direction, you're screwed in the long run. This might explain why the public schools in Buffalo were around 50% vocational until the 80s, which explains the knuckleheads in the local gov't. If your measurement of an education is just what is useful to industry, then your future plans and... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kuujjuarapik
at 4:23 PM on August 12, 2008
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OMNOMNOMopoly
When my wife and I are traveling or stopping at a new place, sometimes a look at the menu causes us both to mutter one word under our breath: 'sysco'. Sometimes there's an adjective too. Then, if possible, we leave the restaurant. I didn't know others did this too. That's comforting.
posted to MetaFilter by kuujjuarapik
at 5:33 PM on July 30, 2008
Restaurant folks getting dry goods and staples from Sysco is one thing, using them to prepare your menu is the sign of an owner who is either too cheap or too unprofitable to hire a chef with a modicum of imagination and experience. When I mentioned walking into a Sysco restaurant earlier, it was exactly this PF dump and stir, ready-made pre-glazed standard food crap that causes me to leave the premises. If the owner and the chef couldn't be bothered to put any care into their menus, why should... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kuujjuarapik
at 6:35 AM on July 31, 2008
krippledkonscious: "Basically, deep sea fish have a lot of really long worms in their back, right above their spines. This crawly section of the fish is completely edible (worms included) but typically deemed "unseemly" to most discerning fish eaters. So they cut this area off (worms still included), slurry it up into fish goo and sell it to food manufacturers to be formed into things like kamaboko."
This is not... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kuujjuarapik
at 6:48 AM on July 31, 2008
I'd like to nominate "Live Maine Lobster" as served in Southern California.
Lobster is still a wild creature that doesn't require petroleum inputs for it's growth. A better nominee would be Argentine feedlot beef in Toronto.
posted to MetaFilter by kuujjuarapik
at 10:25 AM on July 31, 2008
jkaczor: You only need to harvest a lobster with petroleum. Lobsters don't need petroleum as fertilizer (inputs) to grow the corn and soybeans for feed and get it to the feedlot cow for fattening, get the cow to slaughter and on to market, move around all of the cowshit, etc.
Lobsters grow themselves with no help from oil. Aside from the bait that they eat when running in and out of traps, they are entirely human independent. It may not look like a difference to you, but it is huge.
posted to MetaFilter by kuujjuarapik
at 11:42 AM on July 31, 2008
someone needs to explain to me what these worms are in fish's backs. i've never heard of this and makes me even more afraid of fish.
They aren't specifically in the backs of fishes. KrippledKonscious was talking out his butt. In cod, they are generally found in and around the belly, where they enter fish flesh through the digestive system. This occurs when cod are feeding in waters where there are seals presentas the worms spend part of... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kuujjuarapik
at 3:36 PM on August 1, 2008
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Fast Food Apartheid
This would matter if America valued health care. But it will probably just make people in the area spend more resources in an attempt to find cheap and easy food if alternatives aren't put in place before the ban.
posted to MetaFilter by kuujjuarapik
at 9:47 AM on July 31, 2008
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Libraries: delicious!
Has anyone stumbled across a menu for somewhere that's still open?
The Chateau Frontenac in Quebec is still open, and I think Delmonico's in NYC is too.
posted to MetaFilter by kuujjuarapik
at 8:20 AM on July 30, 2008
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Chinese Superpower? Maybe, maybe not.
I'm just hoping that the smog won't obscure Cai Guo Qiang's fireworks at the opening of the Olympic games. That's all I'm looking forward to in Beijing 08.
Or if they are obscured, I'd really like to know what he has to say about it.
posted to MetaFilter by kuujjuarapik
at 7:20 PM on July 28, 2008
y'know, I never thought to look for Cai on youtube. I am a happy man now, thanks Sonic!
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at 8:19 PM on July 28, 2008
MeFi post:
Contortionist Olga Pikhienko
If I ever go deaf, the bright side will be that I could enjoy another Cirque du Soleil performance.
posted to MetaFilter by kuujjuarapik
at 4:52 PM on July 28, 2008
I'm not surprised that they could sell their CD to people who never heard their music.
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at 6:57 PM on July 28, 2008
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Fungi are weird
And astronauts on long spaceflights might one day find a useful, self-replenishing diet in black, melanin-rich fungi.
Space Log, Stardate 272736: Black shit for dinner again. It's been 466 days since the butter ran out. I keep finding myself staring at the airlock, wondering what the stars taste like.
posted to MetaFilter by kuujjuarapik
at 8:19 AM on July 25, 2008
MeFi post:
Crooks and Liars
The white collar criminal country club must have a heck of a golf course. So many want to get in it.
posted to MetaFilter by kuujjuarapik
at 6:40 AM on July 25, 2008
MeFi post:
Cops on Segways
I continue to be amazed at the level of hate for the Segway.
Maybe if they glued some brass gears and wood paneling on them and renamed them "The Bicircular Dynamotronic Pedocycle" they get some love.
posted to MetaFilter by kuujjuarapik
at 2:14 PM on July 23, 2008
