This week, John Boehner said unemployed Americans would rather “just sit around” and not work. He has a point. People who just sit around and do nothing shouldn’t be given free money.
Monday.
Tuesday.
Wednesday.
Thursday.
Payday.
Saturday.
Sunday.
Back to the grind.
- Old Print Articles: Leopold and Loeb confess to “thrill killing” (1924) + Swedish explorer Sven Hedin uncovers unusual Tibetan custom (1908).
- Featured Videos: The making of 1968’s Rosemary’s Baby + Argument over air bags in autos leads to computerized cars + A look inside the Byte Shop and the budding Computer Revolution (1978).
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: I will to turn your stomach, then cure it + Cow milk is for losers + Bernie Madoff has started a cult.
- As Gary Hart’s political career ended, politics by paparazzi began.
- E.O. Wilson wants half the Earth reserved for non-human species.
- Larry Page hopes Google 2.0 will solve the world’s problems.
- Because of technology, we can now choose to forget things.
- Because of technology, we may not be able to choose what’s forgotten.
- Stand-up comic Gilbert Gottfried is a punk artist.
- Julian Assange did an Ask Me Anything at Gawker.
- Chelsea Manning thinks we should try a containment policy with ISIS.
- In an automated age, mapping is going to have to be instantaneous.
- Weed dealers must adjust to post-underground economy.
- Art forger Mark Landis did it for love, not money.
- John Kerry thinks the Internet has made it harder to govern.
- The Musk family is trying to bring about an alternative-energy revolution.
- Adding lithium to our drinking water might be a good idea.
- Lab-grown meat will become a necessity.
- A visit to Pyongyang reminds mostly of The Truman Show.
- Violent gangs pretty much run American prisons at this point.
- Old-school McDonald’s spoons are useful to coke dealers.
- Spread of infections can be stopped by mathematics.
- We might have to establish a Federal Robotics Commission.
- Celebrities with dumb causes (e.g., anti-vaccination) can do damage.
- Contact between Earthlings and ETs would be very strange.
- Some Argentine socialists believe UFOs will bring about Utopia.
- Iraqi politician Ahmed Chalabi discusses the ISIS crisis.
- An interview with a survivor of an ISIS mass killing.
- Nanotechnology will transform medicine, eventually.
- Philosopher Stephen Cave wonders if happiness should be our goal.
- Guardian editor Matt Wells discusses the Scottish Independence vote.
- When we measure progress, environmental damage should be a factor.
- The office desk ain’t what it used to be.
- A brief note from 1911 about groomed felines.
- A Brief note from 1942 about dinner.
- A brief note from 1886 about devotion.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.