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• A song of insufficiency

  
  la Rob — Authority: 117
  In honor of the United States Congress, I’d like to present Bertolt Brecht’s acerbic little song with the grand title of “The Song about the Insufficiency of Human Striving.” The video is followed by the German text, with my own loose translation after each stanza.1Das Lied von der Unzulänglichkeit ...
  6 hours ago

• Goebbels´ Glory

  
  Simple Country Physicist — Authority: 129
  OK, I noted Ars Technica´s tirade about ad blocking robbing web sites of ad revenue. [Link] The model should not be confusing, it is the same as newspapers´. The newspaper gets paid for how many times the ad is (at least potentially) look at. So if the ad cannot be seen – is blocked – then no pay. So I turned ...
  1 day ago

• Plane kills beach jogger listening to his iPod

  
  Macenstein — Authority: 556
  You know how they say “When it’s your time to go, it’s your time to go”? Well, I can’t help but feel that a hell of a lot of people’s “time to go” might be extended if a couple of these bored ass-wipes stopped trying to fly their experimental planes.From The Associated PressA 38-year-old [...]
  2 days ago

• Positive Cynicism – Where is all my time going?

  
  HoboTrashcan — Authority: 422
  Aaron R. Davis Thanks to budget mismanagement in Illinois, I’ve found myself with an awful lot of free time lately. Did that sound bitter? Good, it was. Here in the town where I live, competition for substitute teaching gigs has gotten out of control. Teacher assistants were all laid off last year, so the pool ...
  2 days ago

• Absent Cognition

  
  Simple Country Physicist — Authority: 129
  I am gratified this morning to read, [Link] courtesy of an eNewsletter from the folks at American Scientist, that In recent weeks, Texas, Virginia, and Alabama officials filed challenges to the Environmental Protection Agency’s finding that manmade greenhouse gases threaten public health which indicates that ...
  2 days ago

• Because This Works, Right...?

  
  Live and Uncensored! — Authority: 465
  SUBMIT, I SAY ! Or make your own Big Ass Message .
  3 days ago

• Contemporary Semantic

  
  Simple Country Physicist — Authority: 129
  Advertising (Commercial, e.g.,) = deliberate, overt, malicious inaccuracy; lie; destructive propaganda; It has occurred to me, from personal observation, and the substantiation has been amassing, that advertising, especially television commercials, is becoming so egregiously inaccurate as to qualify as outright, ...
  3 days ago

• Inside the Beltway

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 531
  MISS ME YET? "Public cynicism that the federal government operates in an atmosphere of secrecy is as strong as ever, despite President Obamas promises to make government information more easily available to the public," says research from the American Society of News Editors, Scripps Howard News Service and Ohio ...
  3 days ago

• A belated "open letter" to Howard Schmidt

  
  Uncommon Sense Security — Authority: 453
  I know Im late to this party, but we have a new (but not really) Cyber-Something (not czar/tsar or anyone with authority to inflict papercuts much less beheadings), Howard Schmidt- and I have a few opinions to inflict, and an "open letter" of sorts to offer. There were nice people who offered nice Open Letters to ...
  4 days ago

• Obama gravy train runs out of steam

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 173
  Obama benefited in his campaign from an idiotic level of idolatry, in which most of the media participated with an astonishing suspension of cynicism US President Barack Obama.Image Credit: APIt is a universal political truth that administrations do not begin to fragment when things are going well: it only happens ...
  4 days ago

• Don’t Stop Believin’

  
  Chris Kilber — Authority: 107
  This has to be one of my favorites from the eighties, “Don’t Stop Believin’”, by Journey. Maybe it has something to do with me always rooting for the underdog. Maybe it has to do with the stories I hear where people are driven by their longings and passions to find a better way than their current situations ...
  5 days ago

• Democrats Must Unite for Change

  
  America For Purchase — Authority: 109
  Do we as Americans really want Wall Street banks and corporations like Exxon, Goldman Sachs, United Health and Well Point to continue to deform our public discourse and govern public policy for ourselves and our families?
  6 days ago

• These are difficult times, but it is important to remember what has been learned.

  
  NA Confidential — Authority: 434
  Thats because youll be tested in election cycles for years to come. Heres a key section from Harold J. Adamss C-J coverage of last evenings cynical school corporation exercise in fiscal and ideological blame shifting: Board members Rebecca Gardenour and LeeAnn Wiseheart tried unsuccessfully to get separate votes ...
  6 days ago

• Robot Rebellion

  
  Simple Country Physicist — Authority: 129
  I now have a standard deviation albeit by a trick. The end states do not differ but the instantiation of the end state does so that gives two statistically distinct measurements. Two measurements does not give statistical significance technically but it does give emotional significance under the ¨Fool Me ...
  6 days ago

• From the right or left, hypocrisy smells the same. Foul.

  
  MOMocrats — Authority: 461
  Can someone  -- anyone -- please explain to me why there seem to be these weird cycles of crazy right at the point where its least welcome? Not that crazy is particularly unusual in the political sphere, but seriously...theres some whacked things going on lately. Take, for example, the treatment of 11-year old ...
  6 days ago

• What Obama Should Say at the Space Summit

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 173
  When the Obama administration first announced that there would be a Space Summit in Florida, the purpose of which was to explain the new Obama space policy, it was met with some degree of skepticism and even cynicism. Original Article: Forum: News/Activism
  1 week ago

• School Battle of the Bands Foxboro, Massachusetts

  
  Braingell Radio — Authority: 153
  BATTLE OF THE BANDS School Edition Friday, March 19th, at 8pm ORPHEUM THEATER 1 School Street, Foxboro, MA Featuring Red Fox Motel, Cynicism and Compliments to the Victim. Tickets: $10 general admission For tickets call 800-838-3006
  1 week ago

• Quantum daVinci

  
  Simple Country Physicist — Authority: 129
  Thursday is a mixed bag at gym. On the good side there are usually very few educationalists and weight bouncers there. Also on the good side, I get to listen to some excellent podcasts: Melvyn, Lord Bragg’s “In Our Time”, Jesse Brown’s “Search Engine”, and Garrison Keeler’s “News From Lake Wobegon.” ...
  1 week ago

• Kind of like a living 69.

  
  A Whole Lot of Nothing ...and then some. — Authority: 464
  It’s pretty much a given that I’ll give someone the benefit of the doubt. I’m forgiving like that. I tend to think of the best in people: there was a mistake, they meant well, some random coincidunk happened. My first thought is that the person did not mean any malice by what was done. I’m a happy ...
  1 week ago

• Reason for optimism

  
  Like The Dew — Authority: 508
  A few months ago a certain head of a certain private SC university and Dew reader called me a “fatalist.” I’m not. I’m an American. Americans are always optimists. I’m just happen to be near the top of my personal bell curve of cynicism. It seemed at the time, for good cause, but not now. A new study just ...
  1 week ago

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