Over on Medium, a fellow referring to himself as “Lucky Shirt” (twitter handle, I’m assuming), just penned (it just sounds better than “typed”) an amusing rant about his poorly made burrito. View at Medium.com It’s funny in that over-the-top-rage way that the Internet loves to love; most of the joke is in how ridiculous it… Read More The “Dear Burrito Guy” Essay, and Why Irony Does not Translate
Parks and light rail are made with hope and dreams and the fierce urgency of change, you see. “I’m at the breaking point,” said Gretchin Gardner, an Austin artist who bought a 1930s bungalow in the Bouldin neighborhood just south of downtown in 1991 and has watched her property tax bill soar to $8500 this… Read More In Austin, Apparently Things Aren’t Supposed to Cost Money.
Megan McArdle gets the nature of the problem, in a very sensible article on the VA. You can’t fire government bureaucrats – especially not en masse, so matter what you do, old patterns re-emerge. Every “reform” just adds a new set of directives and rules without trimming or significantly changing the old ones. What that means… Read More Why Government Bureaucracies are Un-Fixable
As part of my The Western Ain’t Dead collection. View at Medium.com
So a guy decides that he’s not getting sex enough, and that he’s gonna kill some people, and that will show them all . . . something. Read that again. Did you notice the part where it doesn’t make any sense? Like, any at all? Let’s go with that. Let’s not turn Rogers into the… Read More Why I’m Not Talking About Elliot Rogers, and You Shouldn’t Be, Either.
They Had a Dream | The Weekly Standard. “It is actually harder to do some of these things in reality than we thought when we put it down on paper,” a book review in the Washington Post quoted a former Obama health care adviser as saying. This can stand as the last word for the great aspiration,… Read More Die, Leviathan, Die.
First, the obligatory clickbait: ‘Motherf*cking Sh*t!’ Jon Stewart Goes on Furious Rant over VA Scandal. Oh, Stewie is hot and bothered, and the jokes are teh funny! Elbows get thrown at Obama himself. Utter gobsmacked disbelief at how no matter how mad they get, the guys at the head of the government can’t get the… Read More Watch Jon Stewart Not Make Connections
Coldplay? Coldplay. If you don’t laugh, then I’m afraid you have no soul.
I have a lingering love of the genre, and one of these days may yet pour out the Western novel that’s been a-brewin’ in me since I was a tad. For the nonce, I’ve created a Medium Collection devoted to Western-ness, and a fine fellow has contributed a story to it: High Moon – Westwood.… Read More The Western Ain’t Dead.
Philosophy is the Mother of Science, in whose skirts the child hides when it’s scared…
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