Cheese Is Wonderful

Both Blimps [rich ruling-class conservatives] and highbrows [left-wing intelligentsia] took for granted, as though it were a law of nature, the divorce between patriotism and intelligence. If you were a patriot you read Blackwood’s Magazine and publicly thanked God that you were ‘not brainy’. If you were an intellectual you sniggered at the Union Jack and regarded physical courage as barbarous. It is obvious that this preposterous convention cannot continue. The Bloomsbury highbrow, with his mechanical snigger, is as out-of-date as the cavalry colonel. A modern nation cannot afford either of them. Patriotism and intelligence will have to come together again. It is the fact that we are fighting a war, and a very peculiar kind of war, that may make this possible.

6:04pm

They don't make movies like The Fugitive anymore

Things that The Fugitive has:

• Real drama
• Great actors who can hold their own
• Actors who play minor roles well
• Cat-and-mouse without something ludicrous like jumping off a plane
• Harrison Ford

Things that today’s drama don’t have:

• See above 

3:59pm

Pocket Change | Cosmic Variance

11:20pm

Hahaha, communists!

BBC News international decided to report on the reaction of the modern Russian communist party to the new Indiana Jones flick. As many radical fringe groups do, they take it way too seriously:

“It’s rubbish… In 1957 the communists did not run with crystal skulls throughout the US.”

—St. Petersburg Communist Party chief Sergei Malinkovich

I… I think we get that. Actually, they should be quite pleased that Cate Blanchett gets to play the Russian group’s leader. I hear she did quite well, and critics praised her acting. But those ungrateful communists, what do they have for her?

“It is very disturbing if talented directors want to provoke a new Cold War.”

—Moscow Communist Party official Andrei Andreyev

Sweeeeet.  This means we physicists get funding again.

5:43pm

Nooooo shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit

2:26pm

9:50pm

charlietodd:

Worth the 12-minute watch. I love it when Keith gets angry.

zachlinder:

This is incredible.

jayparkinsonmd:

I absolutely love Keith Olbermann as one of the last members of the mainstream media who is willing to speak the truth. I know it’s over twelve minutes long, but it’s a heart-wrenching attack and worth every painful moment.

I now love Keith Olbermann as much as I love Charlie Todd (creator of ImprovEverywhere).

Via Mr. Charlie Todd

9:45pm

I work for the people who pay to get in.

7:37am

Slate magazine: Why the California Supreme Court did more than legalize gay marriage.

5:23am