"Hillary Clinton is employing conventional politics, while Obama is trying to create a new kind of politics. Similarly, as they respond to the country's desire for change, they have very different concepts of what "change" means: briefly, for Obama it means changing the very zeitgeist of Washington, creating a new way to get things done by building coalitions that transcend longstanding political divisions. For Clinton it means passing bills—though sometimes she has suggested that it means electing a woman president. ("I embody change," she said in a debate in New Hampshire.)"
[NY Review of Books]

Here is a map of global cabbage output.

"What’s more, of all the gifts that life and luck can bestow—money, good looks, love, power—longevity is the one that people seem least reluctant to brag about. In fact, they routinely claim it as some sort of virtue—as if living to ninety were primarily the result of hard work or prayer, rather than good genes and never getting run over by a truck. Maybe the possibility that the truck is on your agenda for later this morning makes the bragging acceptable. The longevity game is one that really isn’t over till it’s over.

Between what your parents gave you to start with—genetically or culturally or financially—and pure luck, you play a small role in determining how long you live. And even if you add a few years through your own initiative, by doing all the right things in terms of diet, exercise, sleep, vitamins, and so on, why is that to your moral credit? Extending your own life expectancy is the most selfish motive imaginable for doing anything. Do it, by all means. I do. But for heaven’s sake don’t take a bow and expect applause."

[New Yorker]

I hope some day to live this picture. Probably with a different jacket though.

I am the last person on the planet to hear this and can't stop listening to it.

I am really concerned about this.

Problems involved:
-strange matter
-black holes
-the precautionary principle

But it'll probably be fine, right? At the Trinity test they were not sure that it wasn't going to ignite the entire universe. I am not at all against sub atomic experimentation I just think we ought to clear up this issue definitively. I could write more clearly on it but I'm hungover.

Basically, don't fuck with quarks.

Story.

Why I love Crappy Hour

"MOE: Anyway, back to Obama for a second. Forgetting my own personal hard-on for the guy, he does an amazing thing when he is talking to capitalists, and that is he discusses economic policy in a way that doesn't even remotely sound like populist rhetoric. I doubt his interview with Maria Bartiromo will be sound-bitten anywhere or repurposed into campaign propaganda. He made her look like an idiot. He gave a little chuckle when she said, "But! Small business! They are WORRIED! That you're a SOCIALIST!" and he said something very telling about how they say they're worried when these surveys get taken because they're taken by local Chambers of commerce after said chambers of commerce hold luncheons and get them worried, systematically, every time there's a minimum wage increase on the table or whathaveyou, and how the sky never falls and they're losing their credibility. I wonder if he was referring to Chicago, where I vaguely recall some economic development project that demanded all employees get paid $10 an hour? Anyway, whatever. He sounded intelligent and sober and she sounded reflexive and ideological.

MEGAN: Oh, Christ, I ALSO love how everyones that thinks there should be more government intervention in the economy to prevent market failures is a Socialist right up until Wall Street wants the Fed to pony up a gazillion dollars to save their asses from the market failures of their own making.
Also, my only props to the Money Honey, having just seen her on TV on Sunday for the first time in a while, is that she seems to be Botox-less. You go, Maria. Be your insane market-will-solve-all hotness without knives or shots"

Restroom included/≈ $160,000

That couple look like they're ready to have some quantum sex.

WHEN ARE THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES GOING TO ADDRESS THE CIRCUS SLAVES FORCED TO SWIM WITH PIRHANAS ISSUE?!!!
I WANT TO KNOW!

I'm guessing mid-April.

So I was watching this show today and they were showing how heartbeats are not as regular and consistent as they sound, but actually vary quite a bit in their rhythmic particulars. Then they transcribed the heart beats into musical tones and made some very interesting music. So I think I will somehow get the equipment necessary and make an album of heart music. It would entail heartbeats from various people in various states: resting, sex, exercise, intoxication, sleep, the transition from sleep to a waking state. After hearing what these and more sounded like I would sequence them in the musically proper order and name each one appropriately.

1.Waking
2.Running
3.Resting
4.Drunk
5.Sex
6.Sleep

or whatever. It would be arranged in a way that was interesting and melodic and not just droll and scientific.

All I need is thousands of dollars' worth of medical equipment.

Thoughts?