I nabbed this item from Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire, which I read regularly, so I claim no credit. It’s about Princeton professor Harry Frankfurt’s book On Bullshit, which I read about a while back:
“Bullshitters seek to convey a certain impression of themselves without being concerned about whether anything at all is true. They quietly change [...]

A University of Illinois at Chicago researcher, S. Jay Olshansky, has concluded in a study that obese people will save Social Security by dying younger. Not that W’s lameass plan to “reform” Social Security needs further arguments against it, but this is good news for those who oppose W’s plan and obese people.

Celtic Festival, Vancouver

The drinking among the Irish and non-Irish started here in Ann Arbor last night. Streets were pretty active with Wolverines downtown tonight as Jennifer Robertson, one of her colleagues, and I went out to eat at pretty good fusion place called Pacific Rim. I opted for the rack [...]

Screenplay

Rav’s on a roll. Her photos rock too. Caption:
“It’s up to you to write the happy ending in the screenplay of your life.”

I came across this poster in an exhibit along the corridors of Nashville Intenational Airport on the way to Ann Arbor this morning. Too good to pass up. What a hoot(er)! I guess the message here is that women should get breast implants made of magnets. I gotta go back and check what the context [...]