Fight Club Open Thread

When I watched that (5.00 / 1)

at first I thought the first line was "Eat me as hard as you can." That would, one must admit, lend a whole new dimension to Fight Club.

Very funny video; thanks for that, cometman.

"Some men rob you with a six-gun - others rob you with a fountain pen." - Woody Guthrie

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by: Miep @ Wed Jul 28, 2010 at 22:53:43 PM CDT

Before this cometman, I liked you.... (5.00 / 2)

but bringing up Jane Austin when I put that mind holocaust of an author's work behind me, and in a Fight Club context no less, is a step too far.

Luckily, I found a better version of her works:

"No Quarter Given"

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by: Jack's Smirking Revenge @ Wed Jul 28, 2010 at 23:08:19 PM CDT

Homined Timeline (5.00 / 1)

Homined Timeline

This is nicely done...usually one doesn't see anyone try to do anything like this, to scale.

It would make a great skinny wall map. It would have to go all the way around the room, so one would have to tack it up under the frescoed plaster ornamentation, with the end part just under the gargoyle.

What, you don't have plastered frescoes with gargoyles in your living room?

What kind of blog is this, anyway?  

"Some men rob you with a six-gun - others rob you with a fountain pen." - Woody Guthrie

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by: Miep @ Thu Jul 29, 2010 at 01:05:58 AM CDT

here's a neat map (0.00 / 0)

http://jamesfallows.theatlanti...

What states might look like if, as with Congressional districts, their borders were periodically redrawn to reflect population changes.

This map is by Neil Freeman from FakeIsTheNewReal.org. It's based on a division of the country into 50 state units with more-or-less equal population -- 5 to 6 million apiece -- and preserving existing boundaries where possible. (As with the new state of "Missouri.") I love many of the other state names -- Lincoln, Joaquin, Tombigbee. My childhood home would have been along the border of Coronado and Mojave. In a reapportioned Senate each of these units would have two votes.

In the same spirit of "zero-based governance," also consider H. Res. 1018, introduced this week in the House of Representatives, calling on the Senate -- please! -- to drop the recent aberrational practice of applying the filibuster to all legislation, and instead to reserve it for rare, emergency use. Or, as its authors put it, "Requesting the Senate to adjust its rules to reflect the intent of the framers of the Constitution by amending the Senate's filibuster rule, Rule 22, to facilitate the consideration of bills and amendments." Worth a shot!

Sorry not to have included the actual image, but I don't know how to hotlink online images via flickr, which is the photosharing service I use that doesn't otherwise drive me crazy.  

"Some men rob you with a six-gun - others rob you with a fountain pen." - Woody Guthrie

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by: Miep @ Thu Jul 29, 2010 at 01:19:13 AM CDT