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RON PAUL : TOTAL BADASS

Jack Horkheimer!!!!

this guy rules so hard!!! watch the video and you'll understand why pure enthusiasm beats all.

Tim and Eric

What I find most funny, though, is observing people and interactions that are incredibly awkward. A few weeks ago, I overheard two businessmen at an airport bar talking very loudly and excitedly about a new BlackBerry and their “SkyMiles.” That to me is a different world: two adults unbelievably energized over such lame things.

death of the dollar

Today’s dollar, in contrast, is faith-based. Since 1971, nothing has stood behind it except the world’s good opinion of the United States. And now, watching the largest American financial institutions quake, and the administration fly from one emergency stopgap to the next, the world is changing its mind.

creepy christian moonwalk and jive

aldous huxley VS mike wallace

"All that is needed is money and a candidate that can be coached to be sincere..."

Aldous Huxley, social critic and author of Brave New World, talks to Wallace about threats to freedom in the United States, overpopulation, bureaucracy, propaganda, drugs, advertising, and television.

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why we drink

poignant math-nerd design-nerd video

why does german sound so funny?

At a sports bar, one is more likely to say, "You really talk a lot when you're drunk", than "You are positively loquacious having imbibed such a copious quantity of intoxicants".

Using these different registers, we are able to express different intentions and even emotions. For instance, if we want to be serious, we raise our register. It shows that the fun is over, and it's time to be serious now. Conversely, if we want to set someone at ease, we lower our register, switching to Anglo-Saxon-derived words.

AIG

the real question with the financial crisis is not "who is to blame" but, "how are we going to fix it?"

is it really in our best interest to pump money (that we don't have) into failing institutions, who, although they are "integral" parts of our (and the world's) economy, are part of a free market. shouldn't we just realize that the system is flawed, let the market self correct, and accept the consequences? maybe what the US needs is a little dose of depression era hardship to kill our consumerist, reality TV culture...

nah, i realize that it's probably not in our best interest to bear grylls it for a few weeks will the world's fiscal system shits all over itself, it just bothers me that so many politicians and "blue blooded americans" give canada and european countries hell for spending so much money on healthcare and public services, but we'll gladly bailout three ENORMOUS financial institutions for billions of dollars.

congratulations US government. you are an 80% owner of an insurance company.

ps. not a good post. don't feel like editing it.. just pissed

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Nights, I sometimes got on my Honda dirt bike and rode through the hills and canyons of Deschutes County. Beneath me the engine growled and shuddered, while all around me the wind, like something alive, bullied me, tried to drag me from my bike. A dark world slipped past as I downshifted, leaning into a turn, and accelerated on a straightaway—my speed seventy, then eighty—concentrating only on the twenty yards of road glowing ahead of me.