Time Magazine is Edgy.

Fairly intense TIME mag cover photo you'll see and hear described in this video. The accompanying headline: "What Happens If We Leave Afghanistan"; no question mark, a declarative. Point taken. Costly as it is, there is some obligation to "help out" over there. It's jerky to adopt an abused dog and, after a few years of it chewing up your New Balances and pissing on your carpet whenever you have guests, just take it back to the pound because you're tired of the extra expense.


Is it possible that the Iraq and Afghanistan wars will mark a turning point in our nation's history, possibly world history? What if the world's most powerful and exorbitantly funded military slowed its roll, took stock of an abject failure of strategy and its costs ($$$ and beyond). Vietnam was not an aberration. War sucks. So do Iraq and Afghanistan. Whose fault? "We didn't mistreat that dog, society did." But I bet there is a great way to get a mistreated dog to at least stop pissing and shitting on everything. I don't know what it is, but with enough time and money you could figure it out.

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On a related note, the US military and its HUGE R&D budget have been responsible for loads of technological innovation that has eventually reached the consumer market and allowed us all to stream porn on hand held devices. What if the US military kept most of the guns and robot fighter pilots, but allocated some loot to devising new methods of diplomacy and nation-building-military-intervention? How do you educate an impoverished citizenry, establish functional political stability, and keep women from having their noses and ears cut off? With enough (well spent) time and money they could figure it out.

Then we could take that know-how and apply it to our own increasingly flawed political and education systems. Believe it! Military spending could show us the way!!

Converse: Patron of the Arts

Another Converse sponsored musical threesome, only this time it maximizes appeal by exploiting enthusiasm for summer. I'm not against this at all.

Would it be better for the music industry to remain in this weird give and take between consumers and labels; relying on consumer spending to inform record execs who try to select for and engineer what they (execs) think consumers want? What if artists have more free reign because Brands can subsidize their careers in exchange for the occasional promotional cache?

This song is good. Keep your eyes dry.

Facebook movie, not in 3-d.

something to get me posting. How about this stuff huh?

As good as this looks, here's what I'd like to see: Zuckerberg as the avatar for every person who has invested faith in Facebook as a means of actualizing a better version of themselves. Cooler, more popular, better looking, more successful, having way more/better sex than their peers, and meeting tons more famous people in the process. Even if those famous people are asshole reality tv stars.