A Yuletide Apocalypse

The Official Website of Representative David Duke, PhD:

“The Relentless Assault Against Majority Mores
In an Associated Press story by DAVID GERMAIN he wrote: %u201CBrokeback Mountain%u201D is moseying along the Academy Awards trail, its four Golden Globe wins %u2014 best drama among them %u2014 positioning the cowboy love story for Oscar glory.
Homosexual and transsexual themes dominated Monday%u2019s Golden Globes with the key wins by %u201CBrokeback Mountain,%u201D plus acting honors for the film biography %u201CCapote%u201D and the gender-bending %u201CTransamerica.%u201D
Such is the cultural fare pushed for the long-downtrodden American majority. This film and the almost universal praise and promotion of it in a stampede of gushing approval by America%u2019s alien media tramples the values and mores of the vast majority of the American people.”

(Via .)

Yay… Hooray for bigotry… :rolleyes:

3 College Students Arrested in Alabama Church Fires - New York Times: “Three college students from the prosperous suburbs south of Birmingham, two of them 19 and one 20, were arrested today in the burning of nine Baptist churches in rural Alabama last month that federal officials say was a prank that spun out of control.”

But a witness, unidentified in the affidavit, told agents that Matthew Cloyd said he and Mr. Moseley “had done something stupid,” adding that it was something Mr. Moseley had done “as a joke and it got out of hand.”

…the three had been out shooting deer in Mr. Cloyd’s S.U.V. prior to the fires.

(Via nytimes)

Enough to make you sick…

Planet Mozilla

Now, to say “we’re just making software for the users, aw, shucks, and we don’t like to think about the money part” might make it sound at first blush like we’re all eating granola, wearing tie-dye shirts, and walking around with socks and sandals. However, I think even the staunchest of objectivists will be able to get behind what we’re doing when I express it this way: We are making great software that is meeting the needs of users, we are ensuring the vitality of the internet economy by promoting competition and choice, and we are being rewarded for succeeding to a degree that seems amenable by those willing to partner with us.

A great post by Mike Beltzner over on foundation.

Raises some interesting questions that I’ve been wondering about since I took intro Microeconomics last term, regarding how profit and incentives and corporate structure (ie. profit vs. non-profit) work in the software/web/tech industry, especially with the rise of open-source as such a big deal. But also how non-profits work (if they work) or if they’re a good way to do things. After hearing the way Mike raves about the culture and atmosphere over at Mozilla it doesn’t sound like such a bad idea…

Attention Surplus? Re-examining a Disorder - New York Times: “But attention disorder cases, up to 5 to 15 percent of the population, are at a distinct disadvantage. What once conferred certain advantages in a hunter-gatherer era, in an agrarian age or even in an industrial age is now a potentially horrific character flaw, making people feel stupid or lazy and irresponsible, when in fact neither description is apt.

The term attention-deficit disorder turns out to be a misnomer. Most people who have it actually have remarkably good attention spans as long as they are doing activities that they enjoy or find stimulating. As Martha B. Denckla of the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore has noted, we should probably be calling the condition something like ‘intention-inhibition disorder,’ because it is a condition in which one’s best intentions — say, reading 50 pages in a dense textbook or writing a 10-page paper in a timely fashion — go awry….

…In essence, attention-deficit disorder is context driven. In many situations of hands-on activities or activities that reward spontaneity, A.D.H.D. is not a disorder.

(Via The New York Times.)

Incredible article! Finally they get on the right track…