Would you please describe the emotional experience you have while viewing the chart of the Gross Domestic Product?
btw-Stuff You Should Know
My work-related current events Web site has been updated this week with some interesting new content on the summer blockbuster season and the history of Memorial Day. There is more content coming in the next few days as well, so check back at btw again soon.
Dan Harmon Poops: HEY, DID I MISS ANYTHING?
Kids:
A few hours ago, I landed in Los Angeles, turned on my phone, and confirmed what you already know. Sony Pictures Television is replacing me as showrunner on Community, with two seasoned fellows that I’m sure are quite nice - actually, I have it on good authority they’re quite nice, because…
Sigh. It IS the darkest timeline after all.
A new grass-cutting era may be dawning at the Martin household? (We may only hope that is so.)
Mountain Dew Batman is the Saddest Batman There is
By Chris Sims
As you may already be aware, there’s a movie about Batman called The Dark Knight Rises coming out this summer, and as is the case with any big-budget super-hero flick, that means we’re going to get some product tie-ins. Who can forget how Dominos Pizza reflected the complex themes of morality and sacrifice in 2008’s The Dark Knight by offering a pizza with double the pepperoni?! I assure you, my arteries will never forget.
This time around, it’s Mountain Dew, and not only is there a new flavor that’s allegedly inspired by Batman, there’s also a website and, more importantly, an in-store display that looks like the Saddest Batman Ever.
Ugh.
50 Years of Government Spending, in 1 Graph
(via 50 Years of Government Spending, In 1 Graph : Planet Money : NPR)
Hank's Tumblr: Equality in America
I think I make it pretty clear in my video today that I don’t understand why we’re talking about this. I don’t understand the viewpoint of people who oppose gay marriage, and I’m usually pretty good at understanding people’s viewpoints.
But in that quest to understand the arguments, I have tried…
Nicely said Hank. I absolutely agree with your premise that people are trying to make sense of a complex world with (what I would say are) a simple world view.
I am just disappointed that people aren’t willing to consider that a complicated world can be approached complexly. Sure, it may be frightening … and I think religion can help alleviate that fear. But I don’t think honest religion draws barriers that protect one from the world. My faith gives me the protection to walk out INTO that complicated, unpredictable world, in an attempt to make it better—for EVERYONE. I am not here to judge others but to tell them what I think and hope it can help them find THEIR OWN way to happiness for themselves and others.
…don’t ever forget that!
And don’t say “I’ll never be good”. You can become better! and one day you’ll wake up and you’ll find out how good you actually became.
Truth from astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, he of great wisdom.
Fallingwater (1936), Mill Run, Pennsylvania
Have I said that I want to go back?
(Source: tomorrow-we-may-come-this-way, via designsbyfranklloydwright)
True ‘dat.
(Source: tweeeeeets, via fuckyeahjosswhedon)
(via ATLA The Fire Family Portrait by ~curry23 on deviantART)
Flameo!
Ha!
I now realize why I’m such a liberal by nature.
One of my earliest childhood memories, I’m just discovering was originally a Swedish creation.
