More To Play Around With
Chip Gibbons writes about the hobgoblin of outsourcing.#
Only one position is based on reality and pro-liberty, however. That is all you need to know, to understand who should win.
On the plus side, the lower wages are only a problem if the cost of living stays artificially high. If the cost of food, housing, education, medical care and other necessities falls along with wages there is not problem. The lower wages will buy just as much, if not more than the higher wages did. The problem is that most of our necessities are heavily regulated. Markets for education, housing and health care are among the most heavily regulated markets and consequently among the most expensive. They are full of protectionism in the form of artificially high union wages or monopolies for doctors to perform procedures that could be done more cheaply at the local pharmacy or by a nurse.
Michael Williams refers to AI work as "Applied Divinity."#
Peter Norvig writes about how to "Teach Yourself Programming in 10 Years."#
I've only been at it 8, I still need more time, I guess.
Moxie writes about John Kerry and George Bush, and how one is a pretender.#
My Mother asked me why these candidates for President are all men of privilege and feel the need to feign "everyman" status -- why we can't have a "regular guy" running for President?
I told her, "Mum -- aside from cost and notoriety, anyone who runs for President is a man who DOESN'T NEED THE JOB. His stomach is growling and it's not because he hasn't eaten a fillet mignon in the last few hours, it's because he's craving POWER."
What's the biggest thing I can do? How can I be more important than god? I want to make everyman pay more (or less) taxes. I want to be Ronald Reagan. I want to be the next JFK. I want to bang young interns in the White House and soil their dress.
George Bush is the closest we will get in our lifetime to an everyman in office. He doesn't pretend to be black.
Jorit Wiersma writes about the diary of his daughter.#
It sort of started in the first week after Silke's birth. We had to keep track of all kinds of stuff then (how much she drank and peed, for example) and the nurse also wrote little snippets of text about Silke's behavior. We continued that when the nurse left, and kept doing it in a baby book. When the baby book stopped (it only had room for the first two years), we decided to keep on writing in a diary.
It's a lot of fun to read the entries back ourselves, because you do tend to forget a lot after a while. But like Jay said, I'm also very curious what Silke will make of it herself when she's older. Saskia and I don't have diaries like that from our parents (at least that I'm aware of) so I can't really imagine what it would be like.
It seems strange to think that earlier parents would not do this. I certainly don't have a diary from that time.
Ryan Skadberg wants a BloggerCon Wiki. I'll bring it up tonight for him.#
Correction gives his first sermon.#
He stands in the lobby, greeting people as they come out. "Wonderful message," they say. "Nice," they say. "Thank you for sharing," they say (Oh, fuck!). He ticks them off in his head: just being nice, just being nice, just being nice, possibly senile, just being nice. He cannot, will not, absolutely utterly without fail must not accept a compliment at face value.
Then an angel appears.
Alexander Payne writes about Marty Beckerman's book, Generation S.L.U.T..#
I was not, in my teenage years, part of the kind of social circle Beckerman half-recounts and half-fictionalizes. I had a lot of sex in high school, but with one monogamous partner in a committed relationship. I saw the sexual culture Beckerman describes on the periphery of my tiny teenage life, however, and I see its continuation into the college years on a daily basis. It bothered me then when I didn't have to deal with it, disgusts me now that I'm looking for a relationship, and yet I felt and do feel very much in the minority, that perhaps my perception of my peers' activities and attitudes was skewed.
Beckerman makes the assertions I've longed wished some young writer would make. A poignant example: "Generation Y is one of depressingly few emotional attachments, and this is leading to a total lack of cultural identity — primarily manifesting itself in a vapid, psychologically hollow sex scene, but also apparent in increased rates of self-mutilation and sexual violence." He attributes this lack of cultural identity in no small part to the shoddy relativism, warped feminism, and other failed intellectual initiatives of the Boomer generation - our parents' generation (my inference, not his).
GOD HATES SHRIMP, just like the fags.#
Leviticus 11:9-12 says:
9 These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall ye eat.
10 And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you:
11 They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination.
12 Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you.Deuteronomy 14:9-10 says:
9 These ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat:
10 And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is unclean unto you.