Nobrainer’s Think Tank

shit

• Shouldn’t the weather be warm already? At least the days are getting longer.
• I just signed up for some Texas A&M webcast thing so that I can watch tonight’s Clemson game. I didn’t need that $5 anyway.
• Sometime soon I plan to do a double google translated post. I’ll let google translate my original post into some language. I’ll let it then translate it back to English. Hilarity is bound to ensue.
• My research is requiring that I use hydrogen gas. Damn, if only I had a car with fuel cells I’d be stealing the shit out of that.
• I think I’ve easily spent 40 hours on campus the last 3 days. I guess that means that I don’t have to do shit until next Monday.
• I like it when stores that sell refrigerated beer that’s actually cold. I also miss shopping at the Plez-U. Although I remember once buying some expensive beer, Gennesee or something, that here costs $9.99 for a 30 pack… extra points for living in Charlottesville

UC Sucks!

Well last week was spring break. I planned to get a lot of work done to set myself up for a smooth run into May finals… yada yada yada I’m still buried.

- nobrainer

I linked to Cafe Hayek in some comments a few posts ago, but I want to bring it to the forefront. For those of you interested in economics with respect to current events, this is a very good blog to read. One of the co-authors is an economist at George Mason University. I’m not sure about the other guy. The point is that the posts come from someone in the know, as opposed to someone like me.

I’ve spent the last couple hours reading archived posts and I consider most of them to be quite enlightening and enjoyable. Granted it’s not nearly as cool as Tucker Max’s site, but I think most of us will be businessmen much sooner than we will be law-school-educated, alcoholic, aspiring-author, assholes who freely engage in promiscuous sex.

Well I had MSNBC on while I was catching up on my morning reading (Welcome to Canada is a good read if you have the time, as it’s a bit lengthy). I noticed the report that Brian Nichols was cornered. Suddenly they reported a “confirmation” that he had been apprehended by authorities.

This is of course good news. It seems the “innocent until proven guilty” can probably be neglected for this guy.

In typical modern news fashion, the producers switched the live shot from a helicopter hovering over the seen. (Try to do that, bloggers!) The MSNBC staff seems intent on mispronouncing the name of Gwinett County. In short order, they showed Nichols, in cuffs and surrounded by dozens of officers and agents, waiting to be placed in the back of an official vehicle.

That’s nothing new. Who doesn’t expect it. For some reason they stuck with the chopper shot for the entire drive to the local FBI facility. How non-dramatic can that be? If you think NASCAR is boring, try slowing it down to interstate speeds, with no competition, and definitely no beating & banging.

What can we draw from this? Is it a slow news day? Is MSNBC in 3rd place in the cable news rankings for a reason? Are the producers inept? Were the producers expecting/hoping/praying for a “Fugitive”-like escape from almost certain incarceration? Of course now they’re interviewing the locals… that’s always solid news reporting. Where’s a trailer park when you need one?

That is all.

There’s no need to dig up the original article. This update gives a good summary. In short, a guy in Wisconsin has proposed that stray cats should be huntable. For which, he is receiving death threats.

The Chinese food industry is actively lobbying in his favor.

I’m obviously anti-cat. Perhaps that makes me an anti-felite? For what it’s worth, I have no problems with people who keep a reasonable amount of domestic cats. I may not like being those people’s homes, but I don’t have to be there.

The problem of course, is that cat-owners believe that their cat deserves to roam the neighborhood at its will. They’re afraid that their roaming pet may be targeted because it appears stray.

Why are cats given such free will? I certainly don’t release my fish into local streams reckoning they’ll come back home. Oh, what? Is that a bad example? Well fine. Most dog owners at least keep their outside animals fenced in, roped up, or on a leash. To my knowledge, there aren’t large numbers of dogs roaming the country-sides killing off small game.

UC Sucks - Upset by USF… not yet upset at Nobrainer.