"But I guess where I was originally going is that nobody wants to write endings in television. They want to sustain the franchise. But if you don’t write an ending for a story, you know what you are? You’re a hack. You’re not a storyteller. It may not be that you have the skills of a hack. You might be a hell of a writer, but you’re taking a hack’s road. You’re on the road to hackdom and there’s no stopping you because stories have a beginning, a middle, and an end."

David Simon, like, uh, talking.

Richard Correll and the Woodcut Graphics of the Voice of Action

Keep It Set from Low End Theory.

Bankers are arming themselves against proletarian violence, so maybe you should arm yourself against bourgeois violence.

BOOM CRASH !

Guys calls up people who donated to homophobic causes and asks them "Why do you hate me?"

How the fuck did Henry Kissinger win the Nobel Peace Prize AND become an honorary Harlem Globetrotter?! Did I take acid today or did the rest of the world?

“To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.”
- Henri Poincare

That in the next week, someone starts cracking jokes involving the words "Michael Jackson" and "Children's Cemetery."

I find this comic funny and, specifically, I find this comic funny.

Is this some sort of performance art? When is Friedman going to confess to the numerous subjects he's totally gotten wrong over the years (from the economy to the war) and quit reciting the same old tired "fresh way of thinking." Honestly, I don't know a single serious person who doesn't totally mock Friedman's embarassing output over the years and the few times I've run into or read about people who are impressed with the mustachio, it never fails that, within minutes, I'm like "oh, they're intellectual lightweights. No wonder they're impressed."

Oh well, this'll give me something new to think about.

How You Do That With Vectors?

Confessions of a Non–Serial Killer

Just heard about this today, barely too late, but we will win next year (You don't have to be queer to enter).

Yeah, I don't know what it is either, but you heard it here first.

LA-based Center for the Study of Political Graphics is sponsoring Prison Nation: Posters on the Prison Industrial Complex and the posters are really worth looking at.