February 2009
6 posts
Why Chuck More should stop drawing broad...
dhk:
I love how the Katrina story was used to illustrate how horrible The Government is. Government is bad when it’s inept, and the government was inept when it was run by Republicans. End of story.
(via chuckmore)
By making sweeping generalizations, like the one above, it makes you appear the putz.
To offer my own example of your style flawed rhetoric, the Democrats wanted to keep slavery...
Watchjackcheng:
Elizabeth Gilbert’s TEDTalk on Artists and Geniuses
The author of Eat, Pray, Love talks about the creative pursuit and a different way to think about the notion of ‘genius.’ Chills.
All I could do was roll my eyes through most of this spiel. The idea of “creative people like us” in itself made me want to shoot myself. In the end, though, I think she gets it mostly...
When I was in college, I remember a specific meeting I had with my computer science advisor who was at that time Prof. Greg Morrisett, who now has a chaired professorship at Harvard. The guy is generally a badass and he looks like Ewan McGregor. He knew a little bit about my background, especially all the math I had done in high school. We talked a little bit about how I didn’t know what I...
