Monthly Archive: December 2009
I’ll be honest folks, I don’t like mentioning this – on the one hand, the beast that betrays freedom creeps, it comes on from all sides, attacking those that nobody cares about… But Goddamnit, I just don’t like talking about the smoking bullshit. I’m biased about it all. So instead, let me tall you about Robin Hanson. The man ain’t no true Libertarian – 90% of the time he agrees with us, but the other 10% of the time, well… He believes in efficiency, not liberty. Nine times out of ten he’ll say freedom is the true route, but that...
Well thank God, the damned thing’s finally over. Eleven months of peace before another one of these awful holiday seasons rolls around , complete with its tacky displays, embarrassing traditions, and the constant insistence that you stretch your face into an ugly, manic grin. I cannot begin to tell you how much I hate Christmas. But it did get me thinking a lot about Consumerism – and what better day to talk about it than Boxing Day?*
I gotta tell you folks, I’m feeling pretty depressed today. I Spent the night arguing with my girlfriend, my car’s being a piece of shit, there’s nothing funny on the internet today, and, as my friend Griffin so eloquently put it, I’m looking out the window at an ashtray sky. Might as well write about Climate Change, I guess. That’ll at least give me a good excuse to get drunk later.
A couple of weeks ago I was lucky enough to miss this particular controversy, but like a bad case of chlamydia it’ll catch up with you eventually unless you’re hiding under a rock. So if right now it doesn’t burn when you pee… well, like Serenity says “You can’t stop the signal”. Allow me to be your cultural agent of memetic virulence.
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