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4th Amendment Wear
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Always Look On The Bright Side of Life

 

Cartoonist Nikahang Kowsar -- Looking Backward: 2009

 

by NIKAHANG KOWSAR

01 Jan 2010 21:56

and @thywillB1

As a political cartoonist forced to leave the country in 2003 after receiving a death threat, I should probably hate the rulers in Iran. Though I am not a big fan, I love them for all of their rich contributions to material for me and my colleagues. Truly, how can I hate the people who have kept my cartooning spirit alive?

Ten years ago, a crocodile drawing sent me directly to the notorious Evin prison in Tehran. It was a cartoon I had drawn in January 2000. The crocodile was depicted as strangling a reporter and shedding "Crocodile" tears, all while feigning his own victimization. We named him "Professor Crocodile," a name that rhymed with the title of a powerful Ayatollah who constantly attacked the press with spurious allegations. Ayatollah "Mesbah Yazdi" (from Yazd) was simply called "Ostad Mesbah" (professor Mesbah); the character in my cartoon was named "Ostad Temsah" (professor Crocodile)….

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62.6%

 

At least one big fan

 

too soft?

Tiananmen square Iranian style:

FRONTLINE: Tehran Bureau: Looking Backward: 2009 | PBS

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United States visualized by distance to the nearest McDonalds

 

United States visualized by distance to the nearest McDonalds

Insect Sex-Ed “Green Porno”

 

Actor/director Isabella Rossellini’s short films GREEN PORNO. watch seasons 1,2, &3 on The Sundance Channel

 

original Interview:

 

 

trailer: penis geometry

 

The snail:

 

Earthworm:

Americana That Barack Obama Has Made Un-American

By John Cook, 6:10 PM on Fri Oct 9 2009

via Gawker

Even though he didn't deserve it, it's still awesome that Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize, right? No, it's not. It used to be, but now that Barack Obama has done it, it's un-American.

It's been getting kind of confusing keeping track of what's truly American anymore, so we came up with a handy list of things that are socialist and foreign because Barack Obama has soiled them, by doing them. 

 

Winning the Nobel Peace Prize
Used to be a win for America back when Henry Kissinger won it. Now it's a sign of a "weakened, neutered U.S.," unless John McCain had won it, which he should have, in which case it would have been awesome.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Puppies
Bo is a ringer, a fake rescue dog who was personally raised by Ted Kennedy for the Obamas and the press won't look into it because they're too busy writing about how cute he is. And he's Portuguese!

 

 

 

 

Classrooms
That's where kids get indoctrinated. Keep them away.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Community Organizing
What sort of person helps other people?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Doctors
They're all socialists now, since some of them met with Obama at the White House, and people took photos.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Farming
Michelle Obama started a vegetable garden on the White House lawn, but it's fake and how dare she?

 

 

 

Chicago, Ill.
Obama lived there, so it can't be in America, and therefore it's not un-American to celebrate the fact that it lost its Olympic bid, since it's Chicago that lost, not America. Fuck you, Chicago.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hawaii
He lived there, too, which is why 6% of Americans now consider it part of un-America.

 

 

 

Beer
He had one with that awesome cop and some black Harvard guy, ruining it for the rest of us.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Smoking
He never quit, and so is a liar, and probably smokes Gauloises.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Checking Out Asses
Would a real American ever glance at a lady's ass, like Obama did? In Italy!? No, he would never do that.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Loving Your Wife
Obama took Michelle on a date to New York City in May to see a play, prompting the RNC to ask, "If President Obama wants to go to the theater, isn't the Presidential box at the Kennedy Center good enough?" We're still waiting for an answer, Mr. President.

 

 

 

 

Basketball
He replaced the White House bowling alley—which can be used to play a white-people game—with a basketball court. Didn't O.J. Simpson or someone play basketball? And he goes to games, instead of fixing America, constantly.

 

 

 

 

 

Baseball
He throws like a girl. A European girl.

 

 

 

 

Americana That Barack Obama Has Made Un-American

Rod Blagojevich’s political memoir : The New Yorker

“if, hypothetically, my father-in-law wants me to hire Chucky Lomanto’s cousin and I don’t, my father-in-law will run to my mother-in-law, tell her all about it and convince her I was a big ingrate who wasn’t helping him.” It is unclear that Henry Adams could have put it any better “ this could turn out to be on of the masterpieces of unintentioinal humor -- can’t wait to get a copy– ht.

by David Remnick September 28, 2009

Rod Blagojevich

The American political memoir comes in many forms—the magisterial catalogue of heroic achievement, the backward glance at modest beginnings—but none of these sub-genres have thrived with more repetition and variation than the cri de coeur of the indicted-but-not-yet-convicted office-holding grandee. For febrile self-defensiveness and look-over-there deflections and deceptions, Rod Blagojevich’s new book, “The Governor: Finally, the Truth Behind the Political Scandal That Continues to Rock the Nation,” is surely unsurpassed.

The tone is grave. “Think about it,” Blagojevich writes. “I’m the governor of a big state. And I have a situation where if, hypothetically, my father-in-law wants me to hire Chucky Lomanto’s cousin and I don’t, my father-in-law will run to my mother-in-law, tell her all about it and convince her I was a big ingrate who wasn’t helping him.” It is unclear that Henry Adams could have put it any better.

Blagojevich has been in and out of Manhattan since his pre-dawn arrest, last winter, peddling the line that he comes from a mythological realm in which Lake Michigan, like Avernus, is an infernal and troubled water, and a god named Barack has, like Zeus, ascended Olympus, while he, like Icarus, “flew too effing close to the sun.” And yet no sun can melt Blago’s coif, which, despite his many troubles, descends like a silken espresso curtain and then swerves suddenly to the side, revealing a gaze most innocent.

On a recent Sunday evening, Blagojevich, tailed by his P.R. man and “crisis manager,” swept across the Hilton lobby unnoticed by visitors crowded around televisions playing the Giants game. “People seem to like me here,” he said as he settled into a secluded corner of the hotel bar. “No ‘F you!’ or ‘Yo, F off!’ like you get some places. Maybe I should be a New Yorker.”

Next year, a judge and a jury of his peers will deliberate over the oral-history-by-wiretap that captured Blagojevich’s self-aggrandizing ambitions and resulted in a dizzying multiple-count corruption indictment that features extortion, pocketing money through his wife’s “real-estate job,” a plot involving the withholding of money from a children’s hospital (nice!), trying to sell Barack Obama’s Senate seat as if it were a used Barcalounger on eBay, and, generally, running the state of Illinois as if its assets were his feudal preserve, an encompassing realm of criminal possibilities that the prosecutors have labelled “the Blagojevich Enterprise.”

As Blagojevich awaits his court date, he has, he said, run aground financially. He has tried to make money by writing his memoir (“All by myself. I went through six boxes of crayons”), singing Elvis Presley’s “Treat Me Nice” for a couple of hundred people at a video production company, and trying to land a spot on the NBC reality show “I’m a Celebrity . . . Get Me Out of Here.” (His wife got the part.) Blagojevich said that he considered an offer from “Keeping Up with the Kardashians,”………….

ILLUSTRATION: Tom Bachtell

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Scott Brown Leads a Guided Tour of the Most Awesome Depression Ever

"I sink into a trashed Aeron chair, pull out my trusty ax, and click out "In the Great Big Google Mountain," a rueful utopian ditty about a fanciful wonderworld in which "aquacultured catfish feed the masses," and "electric cars cut greenhouses gasses," and "more transparent global markets function semi-rational-la-la-la-ly." The song brings tears to my eyes. Sure, it could be from drinking far too much bathtub Red Bull. Or maybe I'm weeping because this guitar is just so awesomely depressing to play when it's not actually hooked up to an Xbox."

By Scott Brown 12.22.08

Illustration: Julian Pablo Manzelli

Another Great Depression! Hardly are those words out when vast images straight out of Walker Evans trouble my sight: Hoboes! Okies! Hoovervilles! Women who resemble Harry Dean Stanton! It's all so very... 75 years ago. Our go-to icons of abject, debilitating American poverty are so nostalgic, so sentimental, so analog. Our recurrent national nightmare deserves an upgrade. Let's face it: Flat broke and rattling a mug full of pencils, we'll still be the same wiki-addicted, diversion-craving exhibitionists we are now. Of course, I'm no futurist. Just a hysteria-prone pessimist. But I don't want to live through another Great Depression. I want to experience the Awesome Depression: classic destitution with a whole new interface. I believe the Children of the Petabyte are perfectly capable of reviving classic Depression-era pastimes—train-hopping, bread-lining—while making them uniquely our own. So climb aboard as I, your neo-hobo guide, unfold a day in the life of the future unfortunate.

It's a typical morning in 2011: I start my day by bumming a few joules off a pal's bicycle generator to power up my BlackBerry and surf over to FoodTube, where starving viewers like myself salivate over clips of the "carbo-rati" noshing on hoarded snacks. (I try not to read the comments: "omg she is such a ho for eating that Combo!" "shup azz! u go girl! eat dat Combo!") One stray click and I'm rickrolled, prankishly diverted to the now-familiar footage of Rick Astley being devoured by a pack of London cannibals.

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How Jewish is Hollywood?

A poll finds more Americans disagree with the statement that 'Jews control Hollywood.' But here's one Jew who doesn't.

So I've taken it upon myself to re-convince America that Jews run Hollywood by launching a public relations campaign, because that's what we do best. I'm weighing several slogans, including: "Hollywood: More Jewish than ever!"; "Hollywood: From the people who brought you the Bible"; and "Hollywood: If you enjoy TV and movies, then you probably like Jews after all."

December 19, 2008
Joel Stein
I have never been so upset by a poll in my life. Only 22% of Americans now believe "the movie and television industries are pretty much run by Jews," down from nearly 50% in 1964. The Anti-Defamation League, which released the poll results last month, sees in these numbers a victory against stereotyping. Actually, it just shows how dumb America has gotten. Jews totally run Hollywood.

How deeply Jewish is Hollywood? When the studio chiefs took out a full-page ad in the Los Angeles Times a few weeks ago to demand that the Screen Actors Guild settle its contract, the open letter was signed by: News Corp. President Peter Chernin (Jewish), Paramount Pictures Chairman Brad Grey (Jewish), Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Robert Iger (Jewish), Sony Pictures Chairman Michael Lynton (surprise, Dutch Jew), Warner Bros. Chairman Barry Meyer (Jewish), CBS Corp. Chief Executive Leslie Moonves (so Jewish his great uncle was the first prime minister of Israel), MGM Chairman Harry Sloan (Jewish) and NBC Universal Chief Executive Jeff Zucker (mega-Jewish). If either of the Weinstein brothers had signed, this group would have not only the power to shut down all film production but to form a minyan with enough Fiji water on hand to fill a mikvah.

The person they were yelling at in that ad was SAG President Alan Rosenberg (take a guess). The scathing rebuttal to the ad was written by entertainment super-agent Ari Emanuel (Jew with Israeli parents) on the Huffington Post, which is owned by Arianna Huffington (not Jewish and has never worked in Hollywood.)

The Jews are so dominant, I had to scour the trades to come up with six Gentiles in high positions at entertainment companies. When I called them to talk about their incredible advancement, five of them refused to talk to me, apparently out of fear of insulting Jews. The sixth, AMC President Charlie Collier, turned out to be Jewish.

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Urban Planning

July 9, 2007

Donald Antrim reads Donald Barthelme’s 1974 short story “I Bought a Little City” and discusses it with The New Yorker’s fiction editor, Deborah Treisman.

Listen to the mp3 on the player above, or right-click here to download.

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Religulous (2008)

Dir: Larry Charles (Borat)
Written by: Bill Maher
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The best speech of 2008 Campaign

I have to admit that the speech I will probably remember from this election is not delivered by Obama -- It is delivered by Mccain. Had more of this person surfaced during the campaign -- things may have turned out differently. The clip has speeches by both candidates during the Al Smith Dinner in New York. Although Obama is more than able -- Mccain's speech is intelligent and funny -- making jabs at his opponents -- but mostly at himself. Result is I think a speech that will be remembered. Here is the Mccain that many remember and like -- and I must say, I like him too.

Dignity of living beings

Winners of the Ig® Nobel Prize

For achievements that first make people LAUGH
then make them THINK

The 2008 Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded on Thursday night, October 2, at the 18th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, at Harvard's Sanders Theater. The winners of the Peace Prize and the Prize for Economics are both extremely remarkable this year.

PEACE PRIZE. The Swiss Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology (ECNH) and the citizens of Switzerland for adopting the legal principle that plants have dignity.
REFERENCE: "The Dignity of Living Beings With Regard to Plants. Moral Consideration of Plants for Their Own Sake"

Dignity of living beings

The Federal Constitution requires "account to be taken of the dignity of living beings when handling animals, plants and other organisms". The ECNH's key tasks include putting this concept into concrete terms.

With regard to animals, it means consistently taking into consideration the interests of animals when weighing them up against human interests: we must not, without justification, cause them suffering, pain, harm or fear. The Animal Protection Act already lays down these limitations to our treatment of animals.

Protecting the dignity of living beings, however, goes further: animals should also be protected from unjustified interventions on their appearance, from humiliation and from being disproportionately instrumentalised. The ECNH has also published a report on the consequences the constitutional definition of the dignity of living beings will have for our treatment of plants.

As part of the legislative process, the ECNH has issued several statements on the term "dignity of living beings" alone, including:
Vorläufige Stellungnahme zur Gen-Lex-Vorlage von 1998 (pdf, 21 KB)
Konkretisierung der Würde der Kreatur im Tierschutzgesetz von 1999 (pdf, 43 KB)

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DAM: Oct. 7, 2008 - 8:41
ECONOMICS PRIZE. Geoffrey Miller, Joshua Tybur and Brent Jordan of the University of New Mexico, USA, for discovering that a professional lap dancer's ovulatory cycle affects her tip earnings.
REFERENCE: "Ovulatory Cycle Effects on Tip Earnings by Lap Dancers: Economic Evidence for Human Estrus?" Geoffrey Miller, Joshua M. Tybur, Brent D. Jordan, Evolution and Human Behavior, vol. 28, 2007, pp. 375-81.

Original article

Ovulatory cycle effects on tip earnings by lap dancers: economic evidence for human estrus?

Geoffrey Miller^{, a,} , Joshua M. Tybur^a and Brent D. Jordan^a

^aDepartment of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA

Received 16 April 2007;

accepted 26 June 2007.

Available online 27 September 2007.

References and further reading may be available for this article. To view references and further reading you must purchase this article.

Abstract

To see whether estrus was really “lost” during human evolution (as researchers often claim), we examined ovulatory cycle effects on tip earnings by professional lap dancers working in gentlemen's clubs. Eighteen dancers recorded their menstrual periods, work shifts, and tip earnings for 60 days on a study web site. A mixed-model analysis of 296 work shifts (representing about 5300 lap dances) showed an interaction between cycle phase and hormonal contraception use. Normally cycling participants earned about US$335 per 5-h shift during estrus, US$260 per shift during the luteal phase, and US$185 per shift during menstruation. By contrast, participants using contraceptive pills showed no estrous earnings peak. These results constitute the first direct economic evidence for the existence and importance of estrus in contemporary human females, in a real-world work setting. These results have clear implications for human evolution, sexuality, and economics.

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The Nerd Handbook

Tech Life An annoyingly efficient relevancy engine

The Nerd Handbook

A nerd needs a project because a nerd builds stuff. All the time. Those lulls in the conversation over dinner? That’s the nerd working on his project in his head.

It’s unlikely that this project is a nerd’s day job because his opinion regarding his job is, “Been there, done that”. We’ll explore the consequences of this seemingly short attention span in a bit, but for now this project is the other big thing your nerd is building and I’ve no idea what is, but you should.

At some point, you, the nerd’s companion, were the project. You were showered with the fire hose of attention because you were the bright and shiny new development in your nerd’s life. There is also a chance that you’re lucky and you are currently your nerd’s project. Congrats. Don’t get too comfortable because he’ll move on, and, when that happens, you’ll be wondering what happened to all the attention. This handbook might help.

Regarding gender: for this piece, my prototypical nerd is a he as a convenience. There are plenty of she nerds out there for which these observations equally apply.

Understand your nerd’s relation to the computer. It’s clichéd, but a nerd is defined by his computer, and you need to understand why.

First, a majority of the folks on the planet either have no idea how a computer works or they look at it and think “it’s magic”. Nerds know how a computer works. They intimately know how a computer works. When you ask a nerd, “When I click this, it takes awhile for the thing to show up. Do you know what’s wrong?” they know what’s wrong. A nerd has a mental model of the hardware and the software in his head. While the rest of the world sees magic, your nerd knows how the magic works, he knows the magic is a long series of ones and zeros moving across your screen with impressive speed, and he knows how to make those bits move faster.

The nerd has based his career, maybe his life, on the computer, and as we’ll see, this intimate relationship has altered his view of the world. He sees the world as a system which, given enough time and effort, is completely knowable. This is a fragile illusion that your nerd has adopted, but it’s a pleasant one that gets your nerd through the day. When the illusion is broken, you are going to discover that…

Your nerd has control issues.
Your nerd has built himself a cave.
Your nerd loves toys and puzzles.
Nerds are fucking funny.
Your nerd has an amazing appetite for information.
Your nerd has built an annoyingly efficient relevancy engine in his head.
Your nerd might come off as not liking people.

Advanced Nerd Tweakage:

Map the things he’s bad at to the things he loves.
Make it a project.
People are the most interesting content out there.

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Beauties, like tyrants, old and friendless grown,
Yet hate repose, and dread to be alone……
As hags hold Sabbaths, less for joy than spite,
So these their merry, miserable night;
Still round and round the ghosts of beauty glide,
And haunt the places where their honour died.
See how the world it’s veterans rewards!
A youth of frolics, an old age of cards;
Fair to no purpose, artful to no end,
Young without lovers, old without a friend;
A fop their passion, but their prize a sot;
Alive ridiculous, and dead, forgot!
--Pope