tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20500632084183163742011-12-29T10:08:40.459-07:00Donny, these men are nihilists. There is nothing to be afraid of.Cameron & Jordannoreply@blogger.comBlogger221100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2050063208418316374.post-39529196003533186052010-01-12T16:59:00.000-07:002010-01-12T16:59:16.890-07:00

I thought this was interesting. It was written by Robert Johnston in 2003. INTRODUCTION: The following is an approximate description of the effects of a global nuclear war. For the purposes of illustration it is assumed that a war resulted in mid-1988 from military conflict between the Warsaw Pact and NATO. This is in some ways a worst-case scenario (total numbers of strategic warheads

Cameron & Jordannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2050063208418316374.post-49655282940545540562010-01-11T11:07:00.004-07:002010-01-11T11:15:00.709-07:00

“Quik msg b4 book event: Prez pls pay down massive, obscene U.S debt &/or give ’stimulus’ $ back to Americans b4 propose spending more of our $”“Baffling/nonsensical: Obama’s talk of yet another debt-ridden ’stimulus’ pkg. Fight this 1, America, bc after last 1 unemployment rose, debt grew.”keep in mind this is a northern idaho college attendee and prestigious university of idaho alumnus calling

Cameron & Jordannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2050063208418316374.post-29269018766827079462009-06-27T10:37:00.002-06:002009-06-27T10:45:51.063-06:00

The lightest area is the range of North Korea's short-to-medium range missile, the Musudan. In terms of operation range, it's 2500-4000km. Not really a west coast threat, but still enough to devastate Beijing, Tokyo, southeastern Asia, and southwestern Asia/parts of India.The middle area is the range of the Taepodong 2, NK's long range missile. Its range is closer to 10,000 km. This opens up an

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"You know what I noticed? Nobody panics when things go 'according to plan,' even if the plan is horrifying. If tomorrow I tell the press that, like, a gang-banger will get shot, or a truckload of soldiers will be blown up, nobody panics -- because it's all part of the plan. But when I say that one little old mayor will die, well, then everyone loses their minds!"

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Cameron & Jordannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2050063208418316374.post-44618973661452789492009-06-09T09:18:00.004-06:002009-06-09T09:25:09.887-06:00

Here.In the time which I've experimented with Linux and all manner of techie things, I've noticed a constant, willful violation of Strunk and White's The Elements of Style growing within the language of English-speaking geeks. Every day, this phenomenon extends further and further, it seems. Slowly in quotations, the periods and the commas are switching place with the quotation marks. What do I

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President Obama (of whom I am generally a fan, besides his fopo) is really riling up those of us who have a "Don't Tread on Me" streak in us and are sympathetic to our (little) sister nation,ישראל. While I need to think of a more succinct way to outline that in a blog than the profanities that are in cartoon-style bubbles above my head when I think of it, there was a part of the President's

Cameron & Jordannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2050063208418316374.post-91569646988788703602009-06-03T11:18:00.002-06:002009-06-03T11:47:45.347-06:00

Carlos Boozer has certainly been an easy person to have a lot of contempt for if you're a Jazz fan. His propensity to play in 70% of games, combined with his lackluster defensive effort that leaves a lot to be desired, has a lot of fans calling for his head. Maybe we shouldn't make that declaration so fast. Do we really want Paul Millsap in the production spot of the Jerry Sloan four-feeding

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of what could be amusing for the ~15 that read this... because i'm in a position to see a high volume of people every day, maybe some candid observations about those people? Maybe it will help the detail aspect of my situational writing.

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Since I'm too lazy to write a real post, I'll expedite my usual paraphrase of The Economist and just give you a pretty decent article:IN JUST a few brutal months, the prospects for the world economy have deteriorated with remarkable speed. Rich countries had seemed set for a shallow, muddle-through recession; now a much deeper slump is on the cards. In a sign of growing concern about American

Cameron & Jordannoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2050063208418316374.post-32006014842734985502008-10-07T12:11:00.000-06:002008-10-07T12:12:17.962-06:00

looking for suggestions, but here is my tentative reading list:the cement garden-ian mcewanan american tragedy-theodore dreiseratonement-ian mcewanblood meridian-cormac mccarthythe road-cormac mccarthybrideshead revisited-evelyn waughmen at arms-evelyn waughcatch-22-joseph hellerthe crying of lot 49-thomas pynchona death in the family-ageethe grapes of wrath-steinbeckthe heart is a lonely

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i definitely called the florida loss (doesn't karma suck?), but not the usc game.

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as i was doing my obligatory debate reading for the day, i came across this passage by william t. cavanaugh that i thought was incredible:"An ephemeral particularity is therefore merely the flipside of a dominant universality. Mexican food is popularized in places like Minnesota, but its dominant form is the fast-food chain Taco Bell, which serves up a hot sauce that a native Minnesotan could

Cameron & Jordannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2050063208418316374.post-31204827234505051192008-09-09T09:24:00.003-06:002008-09-09T09:29:40.208-06:00

7-7Not so accurate on my week-one predictions, eh? Oh well. My fantasy team(s) dominated.This week, I'll hold it to this: Hate the Raiders, love Adrian Peterson, Vince Young is a baby, the Pats will probably win their division, but they're screwed after that, I'm really disappointed in my San Diego boys, but we'll see how they fare in Denver.FRANK SUMMERS WHAT???!

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-Detroit 27, Atlanta 10Matt Ryan will choke, taking his first NFL snaps. John Kitna is old and washed up, but he will be able to perform against the worst defense in the league last season.-Cincinnati 53, Baltimore 21John Harbaugh, Baltimore's new HC, comes into an offense that's always struggled, but with a rookie play-caller. This is what their PR people like to call "a rebuilding year."-

Cameron & Jordannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2050063208418316374.post-89612859837973751072008-09-03T22:10:00.003-06:002008-09-03T23:10:43.429-06:00

Most people attribute the lion's share of glory to Eli Manning for the Super Bowl XLII victory the Giants enjoyed, but why...? Because he had a decent receiving corps and Plaxico Burress, whose then fading (at best) NFL career fizzled? Because Manning has a lucky habit of forcing the ball to crossing roues on third and long? No. Coming from a Peyton fanboy, Eli's responsibility for the win is a

Cameron & Jordannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2050063208418316374.post-73213626131555116682008-04-07T11:48:00.001-06:002008-04-07T11:48:24.364-06:00

Daniel Levy has a new article in The Guardian claiming a fresh approach to Israeli settlement expansion….wrong. While there may be a grain of truth in the fact that the IDF is a force with massive power relative to the Palestinians’, and Israel loves nothing more than to flex that muscle, it is impossible and vacuous to debate the merits of that obviousness. A prerequisite to its consideration is

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I couldn't agree more with Daniel J. Mitchell's article in the March 18 edition of Foreign Policy. Calling for Liechtenstein and other countries popular with tax-o-phobic investors to implement systems to track (read: tax) foreign investment and reduce financial privacy. On face, it's probably pretty hard for the average American economist to justify tax-havens; nobody likes the big corporations

Cameron & Jordannoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2050063208418316374.post-10389210315350749732008-03-03T21:02:00.003-07:002008-03-03T21:29:30.278-07:00

The naval cruiser Lake Eerie recently launched a missile to intercept an American spy satellite which could potentially disperse excess Hydrazine, a toxic fuel. The result was a success, as you are all definitely aware; but, safety was obviously not the supreme concern of those whose decision it was. We citizens of the United States love to see our military strength flexed (see: Spanish Civil War

Cameron & Jordannoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2050063208418316374.post-36361957270906708852008-02-28T13:42:00.002-07:002008-02-28T13:44:32.451-07:00

Ezra Klein sums up the state of modern political media:Where we once prized a tremendous facility for wit, we’re now elevatingthose with a tremendous storehouse for anger. Run a search on quotes fromGalbraith, Buckley, or Friedman, then do the same for O’Reilly and Coulter.We’re really losing something here. And we don’t even have Molly Ivins around towrest it back.

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Old post from the Danegeld (school newspaper):...by the way, for the probably 3-4 people that read this, you'll get more content of mine here.At a time when national polling is a pretty scrutinized science, we are allowed a glimpse of certain psychological phenomena we would otherwise not have access to. I'll try to keep this both short and cerebral: the politics of cultural categorization and

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