Sunday Night Links
* Inside UNC’s no-show classes. But the NCAA is powerless! Alas!
* Grantham To Climate Scientists: ‘Be Persuasive. Be Brave. Be Arrested (If Necessary).’
* Ray Kurzweil’s Dubious New Theory of Mind.
* Good news from Rolling Jubilee: they think their version of debt forgiveness won’t have tax implications for the beneficiaries. UPDATE: Yves Smith says not so fast.
* ‘Mowing the Lawn in Gaza’: The sound of Israeli drones hovering over Gaza, or any drones anywhere for that matter, should not be aestheticized unless one identifies with the drones themselves, as opposed to the humans they are hunting. Glenn Greenwald: Stop pretending the US is an uninvolved, helpless party in the Israeli assault on Gaza.
* 72-year-old grandfather models women’s clothes, becomes internet sensation.
“Why unacceptable (for someone like me to wear women’s clothes? Modelling for the store is helping my granddaughter and I have nothing to lose. We were very happy on the day of the shooting. I’m very old and all that I care about is to be happy.”
* And Wonkette has your list of restaurants not to eat at.
Written by gerrycanavan
November 18, 2012 at 5:26 pm
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
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Why would anyone eat at any of those restaurants in the first place?
Neil
November 18, 2012 at 5:51 pm
They had Papa John’s at a campus event recently. I couldn’t believe how terrible it was, or that I’d ever eaten it voluntarily.
gerrycanavan
November 18, 2012 at 5:52 pm
I remember liking it when I was a kid, better than other pizza chains. I guess it was just the garlic sauce.
Dan Watson (@watsdn)
November 19, 2012 at 1:59 am
I struggled with the same set of impossible memories.
gerrycanavan
November 19, 2012 at 7:06 am