Foobarnacle

a placeholder that never lets go

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“Who does more for the redwoods and society anyway — the guy chained to a tree or the guy who founds the “Green Travel Redwood Tree-Hug Tour Company” and makes a million by turning redwoods into a tourist destination, a valuable resource that people will pay just to go look at? So make your contribution by getting rich. Don’t be an idealist.”

P.J. O’Rourke: Fairness, idealism and other atrocities - Los Angeles Times

 (via Andrew Sullivan)


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This morning, George Stephanopoulos began his televised interview with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton by asking if she could name a single economist who supported her plan for a gas-tax suspension.

Mrs. Clinton did not. “I’m not going to put in my lot with economists,” she said on the ABC program “This Week.” A few moments later, she added, “Elite opinion is always on the side of doing things that really disadvantages the vast majority of Americans.”

There Goes the Economists Vote

(via Andrew Sullivan


Brilliant!  Tom Waits Press Conference (via Wired)


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May 1

Haha I live here. Well, around the corner.

(via Greater Greater Washington


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