little did he know

thoughts and links from a character(s) unaware
  • friend: there's a life outside the internet
  • me: link me

ONGOING: Questions Unanswered

…either due to lack of answer or of effort (on my part) in finding it:

  • when is campaign finance going to be fixed, re: superpacs

  • when is guantanamo going to be closed

  • what happens to people in jail/prison for marijuana possession convictions if/when it gets legalized

  • what replaces the GOP in 30 years, when demographics will have shifted

  • can wall street ever be regulated effectively

  • what’s up with private defense contracting

  • will anything good come of creating a cyber-military-industrial complex, who will oversee and regulate it

  • how do we regulate the politico-industrial complex

Progress is not the practice of those in the business of sweeping success. Progress overawes—but its work is slow and grim. Progress waits on people to die, and more enlightened people to take their place. Progress works even as the unenlightened abound, but find their ranks thinned and their positions exposed.


Specifically, democratic progress is not revolution and can never be the gospel of people who measures success by complete victories achieved in singular life-times. Instead it is reserved for those who are unrelenting in struggle, patient beyond their mortal coil, and willing to wage wars across generations.

Memories are becoming hyperlinks to information triggered by keywords and URLs. We are becoming ‘persistent paleontologists’ of our own external memories, as our brains are storing the keywords to get back to those memories and not the full memories themselves.

Amber Case, cyberanthropologist and CEO of Geoloqi, in our report on the future of millennials’ hyperconnected lives. (via pewinternet)

(via pewinternet)

drinkyourjuice:

YANKEE CANDLE IS SENDING US THEIR MAN CANDLES BYEEEEEEE

this is bullshit.

tballardbrown:


Bestselling Christian chick lit author ReShonda Tate Billingsley‘s Facebook recently posted a Facebook photo of her daughter and it’s going viral. The photo is part of her daughter’s punishment for abusing social media. 
The photo’s been shared 3,600 times and counting, with most of the comments regarding it being favorable. One poster’s commends Billingsley’s no-nonsense approach: “This is YOUR CHILD, not everybody else’s! You are her parent! I approve because if you don’t do it now, the jails or worse are waiting for her! Thank you for being courageous in training your female child to be a productive citizen of our world.” Another commenter opined, “I am so through with these uber-permissive parents telling us we’re invading our children’s privacy and embarrassing them unfairly by taking control and stepping up to the plate as moms and dads. Go, ReShonda, you have my full support!” Only a very small minority of poster dissented.
What do you think? Is it ever cool to publicly punish your child? Were you ever punished in full view of friends and/or strangers? Would you try this method with your own kid?
(via Putting Your Kid On Blast: Yea or Nay? | Clutch Magazine)


how is this not bullying

tballardbrown:

Bestselling Christian chick lit author ReShonda Tate Billingsley‘s Facebook recently posted a Facebook photo of her daughter and it’s going viral. The photo is part of her daughter’s punishment for abusing social media. 

The photo’s been shared 3,600 times and counting, with most of the comments regarding it being favorable. One poster’s commends Billingsley’s no-nonsense approach: “This is YOUR CHILD, not everybody else’s! You are her parent! I approve because if you don’t do it now, the jails or worse are waiting for her! Thank you for being courageous in training your female child to be a productive citizen of our world.” Another commenter opined, “I am so through with these uber-permissive parents telling us we’re invading our children’s privacy and embarrassing them unfairly by taking control and stepping up to the plate as moms and dads. Go, ReShonda, you have my full support!” Only a very small minority of poster dissented.

What do you think? Is it ever cool to publicly punish your child? Were you ever punished in full view of friends and/or strangers? Would you try this method with your own kid?

(via Putting Your Kid On Blast: Yea or Nay? | Clutch Magazine)

how is this not bullying

(via npr)

govtoversight:

See that line of light? That’s the stern door of a brand new, and expensive, Navy ship that won’t close. The LCS Freedom has cracks, corrosion, flooding and engine problems, and the U.S. is planning on buying many more ships like it. Read more in the Aviation Week story.

govtoversight:

See that line of light? That’s the stern door of a brand new, and expensive, Navy ship that won’t close. The LCS Freedom has cracks, corrosion, flooding and engine problems, and the U.S. is planning on buying many more ships like it. Read more in the Aviation Week story.

The way you can go isn’t the real way.

Lao Tse (via nevver)

politicalprof:

I may not know a lot about being 20, but I really can’t imagine this is going to work … Yikes. Politicalprof. 

zainyk:

CRNC | The “Break Up” (by NationalCRs)

I can not stop laughing at this anti obama add.

Millennials against Obama.

sadly this is from 2010, so the statute of limitations on relentless mockery has run out for this video

Politicalprof: What I Wish Everbody Knew

politicalprof:

So as regular readers of this blog know, every so often I get into an exchange with people who, how shall I say it, don’t share my political opinions. In some cases, it is clear that the people I am interacting with are thoughtful, informed people who simply have come to different conclusions than…