Last week, the Huff Post published a heretofore little known letter sent from 101-year old LSD developer Albert Hofmann (who passed last year at 102) to Captain of Industry, Steve Jobs. The letter referenced Jobs’ well known affinity for psychedelics and requested support for the first medicinal study of LSD in over 35 years.
Just in case you believed that any of your favorite Autotune-abusing artists, have any talent, whatsoever, look at how great it makes Michele Backman sound.
Reihan Salam, in last week’s Foreign Policy, argued that this recession represents “The Death of Macho.” She cites an unemployment rate that is hitting male workers much more severely than female, and criticizes a culture of high risk, high leverage tactics which she associates with the macho business culture.
I’m so tired of these esoteric, emotionally driven movie plot-lines. How many angst-ridden close ups of Ralph Fiennes can a man take? Nobody can be that excruciatingly jilted all of the time!
For those of you who haven’t read Matt Taibbi’s scathing Rolling Stone commentary on Goldman Sachs, entitled, “The Great American Bubble Machine,” it’s well worth a look. In it, he refers to the banking behemoth as a “Great Vampire Squid wrapped around the face of humanity.”
DEA agents and New York City’s finest were shocked last weekend to find yet another segment of society corrupted by the War on Drugs — Teddy Bears. In a raid on a Bronx safehouse, police and federal agents uncovered over 44 lbs of heroin and $150,000 in cash trafficked by the customizable bedtime friends known as Build-A-Bears.
We apparently have much to learn from the Germans in the realm of video-game themed photoshopped movie posters. More mashupy goodness for you after the clickthrough…