Incredibly difficult obstacle course from a Japanese television program called Ninja Warrior. Having tripped over the humidifier this morning I believe that my chances of ever appearing on the show as nil - barring such obvious reasons as I am neither Japanese, live in Japan, and have the dexterity of a rock.
The first and second richest people in the world (Bill Gates and Warren Buffet respectively) prove they aren’t too rich to get a photo with Hooters girls.
Andrew Coyne of the National Post on Belinda Stronach’s exit from politics.
Now that Belinda Stronach has announced her return to public life — well that’s what she said: “I am stepping aside from elected politics for the time being and will now take part in public life in a different way,” or in other words, I am leaving politics to spend more time with my family firm — it is worth considering what might have been….
Suppose, on entering politics, she had been content to start out as a humble backbench MP. Suppose she had spent some time learning the ropes, mastering a few files, practicing public speaking, acquiring a smattering of French, demonstrating an ability to work with others. Suppose she had supported the same party for more than a year or two. After a while, people might have said: you know, she’s got a lot of money, she looks good in expensive clothes — and she’s qualified. Let’s put her up for leader!
The 10 Worst Rap Album Covers Ever. Some may say that any cover from the late No Limit Records may be a candidate but in my opinion those were fucking masterpieces.
Andrew Sullivan pipes up on the release yesterday of the 15 British Soldiers by Iran. I saw the whole thing go down myself while lying in a dentists chair watching CNN on a ceiling mounted TV.
James Howard Kunstler author of “The Long Emergency” doesn’t give a fuck about a lot of things. Here are his thoughts on Maui from his blog Clusterfuck Nation.
The island’s beauty has not been entirely defeated, but the usual complaints are heard for the usual reasons — mainly, that the overwhelming majority of buildings, both residential and commercial (including the big hotels), are graceless industrial sheds, deployed artlessly on over-engineered streets, which has conditioned the public to believe that all man-made things are worthless pieces of shit. This in turn conditions the public to believe that nothing man-made can be ultimately beneficial, which makes it impossible for us to imagine coexistence with the rest of nature, and so on into the usual swamps of suburban dialectic.