Up for an amusing recount of a conversation with an interesting, and somewhat baffling, Indian-American? Muninn’s got it for you. Comment section is interesting; I wonder what my friend Ritu would have to say about it all… via Far Outliers.
Tag: politics
The Smithsonian Signs a Deal With Showtime?
This is why your grandkids will know so little of what history was like.
With Tech, Festina Lente
This Chosun Ilbo report describes how Korea is in a hurry “to turn what sounds like science fiction into everyday life.” To me, as someone who knows SF pretty well, this is a little bit of a scary proposition, especially considering other elements of Korean culture. For one thing, Korean netizens came out shockingly in favour of censorship during the blog ban a few summers ago, despite the fact that censorship violates a civil right that people only a generation before were fighting to wrest from the country’s dictators; personal security doesn’t seem to have been enough of a concern …
A Violently Executed Blog
Adam is right. George Will needs to shut the f*ck up instead of trying to convince us global warming is good. Adam rants: People that are able to tell their asses from hot rocks have no difficulty understanding that climate data collection and analysis has improved over the last several decades, and that all of the data we are seeing indicates that things are going to get hotter, faster – and soon. Mosquitos that carry malaria and dengue fever are spreading northward, polar bears are losing habitat, glaciers all over the world are getting smaller, and some pencil-necked twit thinks …
You Gotta Give Respect To This Outfit
Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. I mean, someone has to fight these ID-fantasists.