October 2009
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Diana Krall / A Case of You, live in Paris (Joni...
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Dead Peasants Insurance
Corporations are taking out life insurance policies on their low-income employees without the employee’s knowledge or consent. These policies are called Corporate-Owned Life Insurance (COLI). But the insurance industry calls them “dead janitor’s or dead peasant’s insurance.” When you die - perhaps years after you leave your employer - the tax-free proceeds from this...
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“I described my ideal man to my therapist the other day and she said, “It sounds...”
– been thinking…: Sitting in a Mission Bay Cafe (via meaghano)
Insatiable.
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WatchSNL’s Weekend Update on Glenn Beck
Ha.
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WatchMono (Japanese post-punkers not the British trip-hoppers) // The Battle to Heaven
Wait for it.
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New Rule: If America Can't Get it Together, We... →
And replace it with the YouTube video of the puppy that can’t get up. As long as we’re pathetic, we might as well act like it’s cute.
Well, I hate to be a nudge, but why has America become a nation that can’t make anything bad end, like wars, farm subsidies, our oil addiction, the drug war, useless weapons programs - oh, and there’s still 60,000 troops in Germany -...
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WatchThe Age of Stupid just had its global premiere, days before the UN General Assembly’s session on climate change.
It includes footage from America, the United Kingdom, India, Nigeria, Iraq, Jordan, and The Alps, and features music from Radiohead. From October 5th anyone anywhere can buy a license to screen it in their school, pub, church or multinational oil corporation.
“Why didn’t we save...
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“I make all my decisions on intuition. But then, I must know why I made that...”
– Ingmar Bergman, quoted by Que Barbaro. This is probably as it should be.
In neurotic contrast to Bergman, I send my intellect -such as it is- in first: a bumbling, babbling army of disorganized thoughts firing at one another and incurring disastrous collateral damage before feebly establishing...
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To Outfox the Chicken Tax, Ford Strips Its Own... →
FORD makes transit vans in Turkey, with passenger seats in the back. When the vans are shipped to America, the brand-new seats are immediately torn out and recycled.
Why? Because 46 years ago, Europe slapped tariffs on American chickens. America retaliated with a tax on European commercial vans.
To get round this, an American firm’s European factory adds passenger seats to its commercial...
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spaceships:
Elbow > Station Approach
(thanks...
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Watchericmortensen:avideoparty:
Chistopher Hitchens talks religion with Jian Ghomeshi on Q TV.
“Would you at least agree that there are good things being done in the name of religion, like liberation theology and Habitat for Humanity.”
“Liberation theology is nonsense, sinister nonsense, and things done by Jimmy Carter are just Jimmy Carter.”
Two men after my own heart.
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petervidani:
Ryan Adams - Damn, Sam (I Love A...
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Carl Jung and the Holy Grail of the Unconscious →
This is a story about a nearly 100-year-old book, bound in red leather, which has spent the last quarter century secreted away in a bank vault in Switzerland. If you didn’t know the book’s vintage, you might confuse it for a lost medieval tome. And yet between the book’s heavy covers, a very modern story unfolds. It goes as follows: Man skids into midlife and loses his soul. Man goes looking for...
