Dominik's Tumblelog

May
9th

Fri

I brot youz a flower…

cats

I brot youz a flower… But I eated it…

but i do haz sum cookeez. remember iz mother’s dai on sundai. git flowerz nd card but no nom nom da flowers plez.

picture: dunno source, via our …

May
8th

Thu

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear—kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor—with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.

— General Douglas MacArthur

Delanceyplace.com 5/8/08-Tea and Opium<br><br>In today's encore Delanceyplace.com 5/8/08-Tea and Opium

In today’s encore excerpt—Chinese tea, the balance of payments, and opium:

“The British East India Company discovered that there was a market for tea in…

May
7th

Wed

The Media markets

The product they sell is drama.

When I went to business school, we spent an entire 90 minute class on how to read the Wall Street Journal. That’s a rare treat… being taught how to understand and…

May
2nd

Fri

What if I told you of a future
where humanity obeyed the dictates
of unfeeling, unthinking machines.
Would you believe me?

What if I showed you
a traffic light
at an
intersection

Rule #1: Never tell a girl to calm down.

— Valerie, a classmate in Professional Responsibility

Z's book is out

JZ’s book is out. It is in the brilliant Yale Series of brilliant (and Creative Commons licensed) books (which includes Yochai’s as well). But you can (and will want to) buy it the…

Previously on "The Democratic Primaries"

APPARENTLY all the time you’ve spent following the Democratic primaries to date has been wasted; Slate has summed it all up in 7.5 minutes:

May
1st

Thu

Air Marshals mistakeningly on no-fly list, prevented from flying on the planes they were supposed to protect

Let's skip the meeting

Chris sends us this classic “ad.”

Today’s resolution: skip at least one meeting every day for the next two weeks. Watch what happens.