I didn’t use to have cable, and then I moved to Japan and now I don’t get any English TV or radio stations at all, so watching/hearing the news is pretty much a hassle and I feel I’m not keeping up.
And now I don’t have to! It’s like a three minute version of the Daily […]
Band Aid’s “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” is disgustingly condescending, and characterizes perfectly a somewhat bygone attitude of your average American or European, assuming they even give a thought to such things as charity, or the ubiquitous starving of Africa.
Today’s world thinker is more likely to say, put your money where your mouth is. No, […]
It was also AIDS Awareness Day. It was also, incidentally, December 1st. I thought it was still November.
Anyway, a day late but I had a couple thoughts on the subject. First, one of the most interesting things I read this year was an article in the NYT. It’s about a brilliant up-and-coming young econ professor […]
“…54% of Americans do not believe in evolution.”
Are you fucking kidding me? What is going on here? Explanations welcome.
NYT article.
A friend invited me to spend a few days with her in Okinawa, using a Japanese domestic-only birthday flight deal to get there and back.
It was sweet, I spent two days on the beach (where I got sunburned from under like 2 cm of sunscreen AND an umbrella, amazing) and some time sightseeing and getting […]
A chart comparing the social status of your job, level of education, income and total wealth tells you roughly what class you fit into by percentile of the American population; bottom fifth, lower middle, middle, upper middle, top fifth.
I put in my info and came out more or less in the middle of the middle. […]