Wit and wisdom of James Carville

It's like when a midget stands next to a smart car. You ain't tall, midget, you just clever.

Hydrophone check

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Wow: "The Tale of How"

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And if your man ain't me, why bother?

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"My hair just dries this way."

"Business doesn’t get me down, business gets me off."

Lazy bookstore Sunday

I picked up three books from my local vendor this morning. Also, a coffee and a donut.

Singularity Sky, by Charles Stross

This is his eschaton novel, or perhaps the first of his eschaton novels, I dunno. To be clear, I haven't read the book. I have finished both the coffee and donut, so that's something.

The Engineer Reconditioned, a story collection by Neal Asher

and Revelation Space, by Alastair Reynolds

Oh imaginary ZWTF readers, have you read any of these books, or authors? Any other suggestions?

I didn't buy, but might've: Altered Carbon, 

"Important people get better health care."

She said it, but we were thinking it

"Nothing brings a team together like a harrowing experience."

"Always remember marriage is a competition."

"Rich 50 is middle class 38."

It's not that simple, but a good point anyway

I don't think that it's remotely plausible to think that concessions will end conflicts about abortion. Incremental regulations of abortion are part of a very conscious, longer-term strategy to re-criminalize abortion in as many jurisdictions as possible. Such compromise legislation may not encourage anti-choice mobilization per se, but nor is there the slightest reason to believe they will make the conflict over abortion go away.

This isn't merely hypothetical: the Supreme Court has explicitly permitted a broad array of abortion regulations since 1992, many states and the federal government have enacted at least some of them, and yet the pro-life movement remains powerful enough to have a veto over Republican presidential candidates. It is naive to believe that the pro-life movement would vanish if it were given even more ground. But this has nothing to do with concessions showing weakness; rather, it's a function of the fact that there's a significant pro-life minority in this country, and as long as abortion is legal, there is no magic formula that could make them go away.

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"Never badmouth synergy."

"Never follow a hippy to a second location"

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Thanks for making my first time so special

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Shall we go, you and I while we can?

In case of shark attack, punch the beast in the snout.

In case of zombie attack, opt for the baseball bat instead of the flamethrower.

In case your ship crosses the event horizon of a black hole, stretch out your remaining time thusly.

Red Earth, Green Earth, Blue Earth

You know what might forestall climate change? We could add iron to the ocean, spurring massive phytoplankton blooms that would sequester CO2 to the icy depths. Or might not. An Indo-German led team has set out to spread 20 tons of iron sulphate across a 115 square mile area of the Scotia Sea near Antarctica to test this idea.

As a bonus, it may promote more zooplankton, which would help the Antarctic ecosystem, particularly penguins, seals, and whales.

Of course, it is experimental. The image above is from ETC Group, who are not down with it.

Track the ship's progress here or here.

The A+ Team

Sylvester Stallone, Dolph Lundgren, Mickey Rourke, Forest Whitaker, Ben Kingsley, Jet Li, Jason Statham, Randy Couture. . . 

. . . as a team of mercenaries in The Expendables, an action film Stallone wrote and will direct. The main characters are sent to infiltrate a South American country and overthrow its brutal dictator to liberate the population. Filming begins next month.

There's more to life than hulu

Season 2 Flight of the Conchords premiere

sling

tidal tv

inner-live.com lots of tv

http://tvweb360.com/
http://www.surfthechannel.com/ the best of the aggregators?
http://www.sidereel.com/_home not afraid to search non-English sites for pirated English language content
http://videolemon.com/
http://www.invision.tv/invision/index.php
http://www.adultswim.com/video/ creators and providers of fine content like Assy McGee
http://www.ninjavideo.net that shit ain't legal, some tricky java involved
http://www.streamtvguide.com/
http://www.joost.com/
http://s12.alluc.org/
http://www.fancast.com/ comcast's hulu?
http://thepiratecity.org