I watched "OWNERSHIP, PROPERTY, and PRESERVING THE COMMONS" and felt that a few schematics would have helped condense some of the ideas. Like simple maps, some cartoon drawings. Not a bad effort anyway, I will be exploring your site further!
posted to Projects by telstar at 1:40 AM on October 7, 2008

Go ahead, laugh at the Brothers Four. But there was that moment in the mid-sixties when they bridged the gap between Suited Crooner (think Mel Torme) and the Grateful Dead. That is no small feat.
posted to MetaFilter by telstar at 11:29 PM on October 4, 2008

Thanks for this. Hadn't heard it before, and sums up the situation quite nicely.
posted to MetaFilter by telstar at 11:00 PM on October 4, 2008

The TED talk from hellojed's comment is also very good. Jonathan Haidt's take on eastern religions with regards to the lib/con divide remind me of a line from the Bhagavad Gita: "the wise man laments neither for the living nor the dead".
posted to MetaFilter by telstar at 11:24 PM on October 4, 2008

For the record, my rep, Barbara Lee (D), Oakland voted no. She showed some real spine and courage of conviction in going against Paulsons's folly. You may remember Barbara Lee as the sole House vote against the Iraq war. I will be voting for her return to the House in November.
posted to MetaFilter by telstar at 3:44 PM on September 29, 2008

WE WON!!! HOORAY!!! TARP IS RIPPED TO SHREDS!
posted to MetaFilter by telstar at 3:53 PM on September 29, 2008

No ransom? Fine, we're going to kill the hostage.
posted to MetaFilter by telstar at 5:13 PM on September 29, 2008

For the record, my rep, Barbara Lee (D), Oakland voted no. She showed some real spine and courage of conviction in going against Paulsons's folly. You may remember Barbara Lee as the sole House vote against the Iraq war. I will be voting for her return to the House in November.

That was me on Monday. What a fool I was, once again.
posted to MetaFilter by telstar at 12:47 AM on October 4, 2008

Colorado - Corporations
Florida - Corporations
Indiana - Corporations
Minnesota - Corporations
Missouri - Corporations
Nevada - Corporations
New Hampshire - Corporations
North Carolina - Corporations
Ohio - Corporations
Virginia - Corporations

Popular - Corporations by a landslide.
posted to MetaTalk by telstar at 9:46 PM on October 2, 2008

"Busted halo" sounds kinda like....well, like "busted cherry", but somewhere....else.
posted to MetaFilter by telstar at 2:31 AM on October 2, 2008

Ew, those icky nudes. You know, with bodies and stuff. Like hooters just hanging out there! And some of them even show wee-wees! We're so much more grown up than that.
posted to MetaFilter by telstar at 6:26 PM on October 1, 2008

Two places in San Francisco that were greatly improved by removal of freeways: Embarcadero and Octavia-Fell. The change was like night and day, quite literally because those areas are no longer shrouded in the shadows of elevated freeways. I suspect many existing city freeways could be done away with to great improvement of the city landscapes they now befoul.

I also firmly believe that this is why Vancouver, Canada is such a pleasant city. NO FREEWAYS!
posted to MetaFilter by telstar at 6:23 PM on September 28, 2008

I love this post.
posted to MetaFilter by telstar at 3:06 AM on September 28, 2008

Totally by accident, "Cool Hand Luke" was the first movie I went to without my parents. For some strange reason, the Louisiana theater had it paired with the Jungle Book matinee (This was before the MPAA rating system). My seven year old friend and I fidgeted through CHL and then went ga-ga over the Jungle Book. Still, I remember scenes and emotions from that showing of CHL to this day. In case you're wondering, the egg-eating scene made the biggest impression on 7-year old me.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by telstar at 1:28 AM on September 28, 2008

I appreciate Palin as an educator here. I imagine a hefty percentage of CBS viewers had NO IDEA that Russia was Right Next To the State of Which Palin is an Executive Of.
posted to MetaFilter by telstar at 12:34 AM on September 26, 2008

Ow! My Balls!
posted to MetaFilter by telstar at 1:16 AM on September 26, 2008

A lot of attempts at being "edgy" often are excuses to simply revel in the problematic.

A better characterization of honest exploration I've not yet heard.
posted to MetaFilter by telstar at 10:23 PM on September 24, 2008

Corporate drink mixes last for centuries, mixed with water or not. I would drink it no problem.
posted to Ask Metafilter by telstar at 7:57 PM on September 24, 2008

Well, there is this recipe:

Harvest the tender parts. Slice them across the grain to bite-size pieces or strips. Put them in a pan with a quarter to a half inch of water (or chicken broth), salt, garlic, a dash of white pepper, and lots of butter. Boil them until the water cooks off (approx. 15 minutes) and let them fry in the remaining butter until they're a light golden-brown in places.
posted to Ask Metafilter by telstar at 7:53 PM on September 24, 2008

http://www.votenobailout.org/
posted to Ask Metafilter by telstar at 11:54 PM on September 22, 2008

In any case, the response to all of those problems finally caused Ben Bernanke to gas up the helicopters. Last Wednesday, it was announced that the Treasury plans a special series of bill auctions to help the Fed expand its balance sheet. Read: The Fed is going to print money to buy Treasurys so that the Treasury Department can lend money to all these institutions. In other words, the printing presses are setting about monetizing all of our problems.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by telstar at 3:50 PM on September 22, 2008

They want to hose us to the tune of $700bn (x2, or x3...) so that the value of the dollar will drop to a level that can sustain the inflated home/asset values? That seems likes the only way it could work.

Much recent reading on the subject gives me the impression that this is pretty accurate. Articles like this Marketwatch piece: Gold rallies as massive rescue plan pressures dollar seem to support this view.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by telstar at 4:22 PM on September 22, 2008

Mish is asking that people send Congress the following letter:

Dear Senator

Instead of rushing into a $700 billion Paulson bailout proposal, please consider the following alternatives:

Mish's Open Letter To Congress On The $700 Billion Paulson Bailout Plan
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2008/09/open-letter-to-congress-on-700-billion.html

Hussman's... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by telstar at 6:12 PM on September 22, 2008

Why so many "become a police officer" google ads down the left side of the page?
posted to MetaFilter by telstar at 4:07 PM on September 21, 2008

Heh. I remember reading about the Baltimore ",hon" thing in one of John Water's books, Shock Value, yeah that's it. Wish I could be there, I live in your true "sister city" Oakland. Have fun.
posted to MetaTalk by telstar at 11:31 PM on September 19, 2008

Such a good party in here I hesitate to add that the LB series is so bad it goes all the way around to being good and then on to being bad again. I couldn't even read it at once remove, through slacktivist, though, lord knows, I tried. It just isn't interesting, and I already know the ending.

/party pooper
posted to MetaFilter by telstar at 9:21 PM on September 19, 2008

Religion is so fragile it can't even take a little MeFi post.
posted to MetaTalk by telstar at 6:42 PM on September 16, 2008

The post was poorly worded, and why focus on Christians anyway? Jews and Muslims are every bit as nuts. That said, the Times article (which was from today, Sept 16 2008) was pretty interesting, with far reaching implications in, say, the current US lurch towards theocracy. If your ruler does things that he says are based on his "faith" (sound familiar?), are you to take him seriously? And if his "faith" proves to be a poor method of framing the duties of government, what... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by telstar at 8:28 PM on September 16, 2008

Palin for V.P. : What a cunning stunt.
posted to MetaFilter by telstar at 10:54 PM on September 14, 2008

Yes. But you must smoke it to taste the differences.
posted to Ask Metafilter by telstar at 2:51 AM on September 13, 2008

What's the difference between Meatbombs and bowling balls?
posted to MetaTalk by telstar at 3:30 PM on September 11, 2008

What worries me is that people buy into them. One place I worked at back in 1992, a couple of the people said they were voting for a candidate because they thought they'd win. WTF?

This attitude is very common. Maybe hearing it called a "horse race" all the time has something to do with it?
posted to MetaFilter by telstar at 4:58 PM on September 10, 2008

Charlie Brooker ScreenWipe, great stuff. Jeremy Kyle...being merely a Jerry Springer copy with the dreadful fake "morality" angle sexed up, not so much.
posted to MetaFilter by telstar at 1:01 AM on September 10, 2008

Legalize all doping. It's the only fair way.
posted to MetaFilter by telstar at 8:20 PM on September 9, 2008

Not a chance. The VP choice shows it all. Obama went with safe, tame, boring past. McCain went with FANGS OUT, ABORTION-HATE, LIBERAL-BOOK-HATE, MILITARY-DEISM surprise. Who do you think US Christians are going to choose, without even thinking about it? A master-stroke by McCain, who will be the next President of the US.
posted to MetaFilter by telstar at 5:18 PM on September 7, 2008

Joe Bageant weighs in on the Redneck/Religion/Palin relationship.
posted to MetaFilter by telstar at 11:06 PM on September 7, 2008

porpoise: exactly.
posted to MetaFilter by telstar at 12:31 AM on September 8, 2008

(Ron)Paulite fantasizes then creams about Palin in office.
posted to MetaFilter by telstar at 2:18 AM on September 8, 2008

McCain Camp Says Palin Won't Do Interviews Until It Knows She'll Be Treated with "Deference"
posted to MetaFilter by telstar at 2:27 AM on September 8, 2008

Obama will spend the rest of his life wondering why he rejected the obvious road to victory, that is, choosing Hillary Clinton as his vice presidential nominee.
posted to MetaFilter by telstar at 2:53 AM on September 8, 2008

Only when the Republicans courted the racist vote did they overcome this disadvantage, but it's a Faustian bargain, much like courting the Religious Right (ironically enough).

How so? Pugs have demonstrated that they can count on virtually all of the religious right vote, then they can delay indefinitely actually giving the RR what they want, even laugh at them behind closed doors and subsequently be ready to count on pretty much the same... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by telstar at 2:41 PM on September 8, 2008

I dunno krinklyfig, again I don't see too much that is "Faustian" (pact with the "devil" to gain power) about the relationship between the Pugs and the religious right. The Pugs take up and discard the RR at will, because what is the alternative for the RR in the binary US political system? That's right, those DemonRats! Who are secretly Muslim abortionists who want to surrender to Osama! Who will take your guns away! Who will teach about SEX to TEENAGERS, thus... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by telstar at 7:54 PM on September 8, 2008

This Nassim Haramein that godseyeview is into isn't just a charlatan, he's a really boring charlatan. Seriously, you guys find this stuff in any way novel? Guess spending lots of time in California gives one the ability to spot this kind of dross a mile away. Guys like godseyeview are a dime-a-dozen in Cali. I kinda like the shotgun solution that staggering mentioned, but don't get your hopes up.
posted to MetaFilter by telstar at 5:00 PM on September 9, 2008

Methamphetamine ( Desoxyn ) an amphetamine used to treat narcolepsy and attention-deficit-disorder in children. In some cases but rare this drug is used to treat depression. This drug is from a family of drugs known as central nervous system stimulants.
posted to MetaFilter by telstar at 11:32 PM on September 8, 2008

telstar, drugs provided for medical usage, dispensed under the eye of a doctor who is presumably able to gauge appropriate dosage and properly weigh the risks and benefits of such usage, is hardly a good analogy for the behavior of a consumer on an open drug market (or an indicator of the quality and purity of the drug on such a market).

I might even tend to agree with you if half the ADHD drugs out there didn't get diverted to illegal markets.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by telstar at 4:04 PM on September 9, 2008

voltairemodern, actually Alex Jones (who's that?) expresses quite eloquently and loudly much of what you need to know about Michelle Malkin in the linked video.
posted to MetaTalk by telstar at 3:47 PM on September 7, 2008

If you've seen the ranting guy in Waking Life - that's Alex!

Would this be something I'd need a TV to know about?
posted to MetaTalk by telstar at 2:39 AM on September 8, 2008

You aren't referring to WAMU about to go under, are you?
posted to Ask Metafilter by telstar at 12:56 AM on September 8, 2008

That was xtra-bad, but I enjoyed the BurningMan dust storm throughout.
posted to MetaFilter by telstar at 4:35 PM on September 7, 2008

military:neonazis::rice:white
posted to MetaFilter by telstar at 4:29 PM on September 7, 2008