Dave’s gotten me into watching the Ted talks. There’s something like 380 of them online so far. They vary wildly in quality, but the good ones are very good. If you’ve got a free hour of time, here’s 3 that made me think. They are startlingly related, considering that it’s unlikely these three people set out to give related talks. Barry Schwartz on the paradox of choice. Malcolm Gladwell on spaghetti sauce. Dan Gilbert on happiness.
Then complain about the only ACTUAL campaign promise that Obama has broken thus far. I’m sure there will be many more, but this was was important to me, and I’m seriously annoyed. Obama promised that we would all be able to review legislation on the white house website for 5 days *before* he signed it. Much of the crap the Bush administration did was signed into law before we ever got a chance to look at it, and Obama promised change. Thus far, Obama’s only signed one law into effect, and it wasn’t posted on the website until after he…
Man’s minivan rammed, man arrested at gunpoint with his 3 kids in the back for an improper lane change. Ryan Frederick was convicted of voluntary manslaughter on Thursday. He shot a police officer in self defense when the police, who failed to identify themselves in a “drug raid” (they didn’t find any drugs), broke into his house while he was sleeping in the wee hours of the morning. The police also shot at him, but later denied it, despite the evidence of bullet holes and shells collected by the police themselves that came from police rifles, not the handgun that…