Kennedy faced things in his short presidency that would honestly make lesser presidents wet themselves: challenges that led to both successes and failures. I don't think Obama ever did anything as hard as the Bay of Pigs or the Cuban Missile Crisis.

According to a poll reported last week in the Washington Post (a few days after Comey was fired), 84% of Republicans fully support him. They fucking LOVE him.

That's not a very complex reading of his comedy.

"creepy cult-like devotion"

Emily Haines (Emily Haines and the Soft Skeleton)

I'm pretty sure that most conservatives (and probably liberals as well) are much more moderate in their personal lives, and may even hold some beliefs that are antithetical to their public platforms. But for strategic purposes, they toe the party line and are well-trained not to step over it. In fact, I believe the…

For practical purposes, though, you'd end up having a hard drive full of FLACs for archival purposes, and a hard drive full of MP3s for listening purposes. That's a lot of hard drives.

Actually, that should probably be:
MP3:FLAC::JPG:TIFF

Could be true, but that's not what the segment implied. It implied that the treatment counseling at the for-profit dialysis centers was biased against transplant.

MP3:JPG::FLAC:TIFF

I don't know where you live, but anyone who knows a little bit about code can get a 6-month contract in Austin making ~$40/hour. The contract market is surprisingly uncompetitive: my company usually only gets 5-10 candidates per opening, and there are hundreds of companies in the area looking for help. If you don't…

Finished off True Blood season 4, and not nearly as excited about continuing as I was back in seasons 2 and 3. Did some family stuff. Beat the Turtle Rock dungeon in LttP without leaving to go find fairies or buy more potions, so that's a huge win. (Still hate that dungeon more than anything.)

Currently almost done with A History of the Future by James Howard Kunstler. It's his third book about America after oil and electricity. This one gets into the stuff that happens outside of upstate NY. The former Confederacy has split into two breakaway nations - the mountain states (VA, NC, TN, KY) have become a…

My favorite thing about the book is the comedy of understatement and dryness - passing off shocking things like violence or life-changing events as no big deal. I found it quite insightful into the lore of the Viking.

TIFF is a better metaphor for lossless image format.

Massive, for-profit dialysis corporations, who don't make any money from transplants, and thus advise patients to stay on dialysis.

My company has quarterly meetings in large auditoriums. If I saw a guy prancing around with a sword and quoting a 90s movie, I'd be polishing my resume.

Econ 101: when private companies compete against each other, prices go down and everybody wins.

A lot of Reagan's popularity can be directly traced back to the Carter administration. The American decline started the moment soldiers from the Mayflower came ashore and started digging up Indian graves to steal jewelry.

Who let this dog out? Who? Who? Who? Who?