Some people don't get that it's all a joke.
Some people do.
And some people get it so well, they tell it.

Thought I should have a random place for all my random dull HEY GUYS YOU KNOW WHAT THINK!!!1! If nothing else it should keep me safe from the political forum. Mind you, I take no personal responsibility for what ends up here.

-- Directed sales taxes
Health and education are not properly luxuries. This is partly because these markets have a poor contractual basis: students are too poor to be primary consumers, patients are too old to be anything else. And this is partly because...

My cheap ass was bothered that my debtor sister went the extra yard to get me a $150 5th gen mini for christmas instead of a $50 off-brand 8-gig player. Then I was at this TV store with mom, advising her to get the 52 in and not the 60 in when suddenly every TV was advertising how the new Ipods have video cameras and I thought, "hey wait a minute, that's my ipod! I have a video camera!" Awesome, right? So far I've recorded the cats, a drunk party, insurance evidence, and the side of...

She said, "I could kill you in your sleep for what you just said."

I turned off the light, and tried to get to sleep. It had been the worst day of my life, and I was quite done with it. It had started with the smallest perceivable irregularities. Like when I went to make an omelet, the color of the refrigerator seemed fascist, except it didn’t just seem, it really was, or it really is fascist. It's that off-white you see in every Mao poster. Or Portia’s hair, for example,...

A few years ago, H and I went out to drink with the Canadians across the street. They talked about starting a restaurant. H and I didn't have any cool plans like that, but we were eager to live our lives too. Then we went home and went to bed, and I couldn't sleep. This thought, in its entirety, popped right into my head:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_argument

It was shocking. Not the idea itself, which is just a silly thing really, but how the whole damn...