Monkeys Pay to See Female Monkey Bottoms

word. i guess this is about as conclusive proof of evolution as you can get......

Another definition

comicide [cohm*ih*side] (v.): 1) slaying the vibe; 2) buzzkilling.

really, I'm making up new words like ghostface over here.

Talking Points Memo: GOP Social Security playbook

You may have already seen this, but if you haven't, TPM has posted a copy of the Republican "playbook" for selling their plan to take the "security" out of social security. An excerpt:

Keep the numbers small: Your audience doesn’t know how trillions and billions differ. They know these numbers are large, but not how large nor how many billions make a trillion. Boil numbers down to “your family’s share.” Also avoid percentages; your audience will try to calculate them in their head—no easy task while listening to a speech—and many will do it incorrectly.

(from p.6 -- but I thought the president was already on board with this....)

From page 35-40 almost every single word is capitalized. It's almost unreadable. Whoa. It stay like that till page 45.

There are two canned speeches at the end of the document. If you like, you can put on a nice suit and pretend that you, too, are a mouthpiece of the Bush administration. I'd recomment going out to a nearby public park and convincing the squirrels that we are facing a crisis.

The NFL Stadium Guide - Future NFL Stadiums

Dream of the future of football. Vikings stadium, when built, will be off the hook. It is a little thugly, though (see below).

A Definition, and other hot new slang for oh-cinco

You might have heard about the hot new words for '05 from who let the blogs out, who introduced about a month or two ago the concept of getting "iced."

Here's another one:

thugly (adj.) [thuhg*lee] - 1) characterizing attire or attitude that, in trying too hard to be "down" with the "street," ends up just looking really silly or stupid; 2) of or relating to preposterous gangster rap fashion.

also, "thuggs" are dumb looking furred boots work by rappers.

we make money not art

a quick and dirty link. everything there is "holy smokes" level cool and fascinating....

MSNBC - Jan. 24 called worst day of the year

good morning. it's all downhill from here.

also, I am the guacamole king of university city, mo. pics later.

and misadventures of

Look: Are you paying attention to this? Click above, because in the years ahead it will be either a book or a legend and, well, these sorts of things don't happen in law school.

I am planning something new, which will be both amazing and funny and famous and will more or less run itself. But that is for the future.

Tonight I make sure that all facts which I reference in analysis paragraphs are introduced in precedent case discussion paragraphs.

And that is why, for now, my stories aren't quite as interesting.

This friday, I will compete in an Iron Chef guacamole battle. That's about as good as it gets for a while.

Wait for me then, with a touch of cilantro on your breath, and read well what I linked above.

pre-sale tickets for the NYE party are available here.

save $10, get free shrimp, and party....information 2 posts ago.

aight later....

D.C. Council Approves Deal to Finance Stadium (washingtonpost.com)

The D.C. Council gave its formal blessing to a deal to bring the Washington Nationals to the city today, ending two months of acrimonious debate by approving financing to build a baseball stadium along the Anacostia waterfront.

By a vote of 7 to 6, the council adopted a stadium package that contains several amendments to the deal Mayor Anthony A. Williams (D) struck with Major League Baseball in September to move the former Montreal Expos to Washington.

jeah....go nats....

NYE in NYC//Colin Steel & the Sports//DJ Buck Wheaton//Shrimp//Champagne//$20 pre-sale////

Bar is called The Orange Bear. 47 Murray St in
Tribeca. A block from the Chambers street stop on the
ACE and 1239 subway lines.

Colin Steel and the Sports
(the sports are Noah Deutch and Garth Hallberg)

DJ Buck Wheaton (on the wheels or the iPod)
(DJ Buck Wheaton is Derek Teslik)

Champagne Toast at Midnight
(Champagne gets you drunk)

Free Shrimp
(shrimp are delicious)

$20 pre-sale.

anyone in NY got some turntables I can borrow?

Love to liz.

JONATHAN RICHMAN - DEMOS 1973

Merry Christmas

I'm done with exams and won't get notice that I've failed out of law school until February or so. I'm also currently nursing a hangover.

In celebration, here's an mp3 of Jonathan Richman covering "Do You Believe in Magic?" acapella from '73. It's from the tapes that are currently being distributed via BitTorrent at the link above (registration required).

Also, here's a demo version of Queen/Bowie's "Under Pressure" that sort of sounds like Brian May had been hanging around at the Guitar Center for too long and couldn't decide whether to thrash or noodle.

both the above via largehearted boy.

Video: A Message From The Iraq Resistance

Well, the Iraqi resistance forces/ba'athist regime remnants/evil terrorists (pick your poison WRT what to call them) have a pretty good propaganda division.

And part of the message, encouraging nations and people sympathetic to their cause to put their money into the euro instead of the dollar, could be more effective than another 9/11 at hitting the US where its/our power lies. And, given the inherent weakness in the dollar right now (shrinking US manufacturing base, huge defecits and debt, etc.) this straw might go a long way towards breaking Uncle Sam's greenback.

It doesn't matter too much if the markets agree with the message or the reasoning. If the markets fear a crash in the dollar, they'll pull out and percipitate exactly what it is they fear.

And this message, this video, is in English, the language of the global market.


p.s. one of the rumored "real" reasons that the US went into Iraq (I heard/read about this in the weeks leading up to the invasion) was to keep Iraq/OPEC from switching their Oil trading to a Euro-valuated system from the current Dollar-based market. By invading and occupying Iraq we got a seat at the table or at least a sympathetic regime sitting at the OPEC table. The fewer commodities globally that are pegged to the Dollar, the greater the inherant weakness in the Dollar, since the rest of the world loses incentives to prop up the Dollar. Merry Christmas.

Eggnog (click to listen)

here's the B-Side to the possibly never to be released Walkmen "christmas party" 7". It is the Bad Brains to the first song's Pogues. It also features jingle bells.

Dropping science:

Making a distinction between mass culture and consumerism. Edumacation.


Very little blogging because of law school exams. Sorry. But they'll be done on Thursday.