Mid-Week Tune

Jake Bugg - Lightning Bolt 

Swap a Ginger - the PC Pinkos Strike Again

Looks like the PC pinkos in New Zealand have had another advertisement banned on grounds of being "offensive". So I'll post it here for posterity. You can read about it all here.

Susceptibility & Insularity Meet. . .

. . . resulting in propaganda-induced hypochondria:

Ripped from Jessica Hagy's Indexed.

Perception is Everything. Climbing El Cap with 3 Limbs

Gimp Monkeys from ARC'TERYX on Vimeo.

'We are climbers first, disabled second,' says Arc'teryx athlete Craig DeMartino. 'If you're a climber, you want to climb El Cap.' Gimp Monkeys follows DeMartino, Jarem Frye and Pete Davis' successful ascent of Zodiac, a 1,800-foot route on the Southeast Face of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park.

Hugh Hendry at The Buttonwood Gathering

Hugh Hendry again. Always worth watching:

theeconomist on livestream.com. Broadcast Live Free

The Revisionaries

More dogma peddling assholes. This time it's the Americans (well, certain ones in positions of authority) doing what the Chinese and the Japanese have been doing for years - tweaking or outright revising historical and scientific fact away from the truth in school curricula.

Here's the trailer: