2016 MTV EMAs

I'm waiting for my sheets to dry, watching a station called MTVLive (did anyone know MTV is playing music again?), currently showing their European awards show and they just did their "best male" category and 4 of the 5 nominees were Canadian. Not that they are all my cup of tea, but "damn, way to go Canada.

So that just happened...

Automated "research firm" called my gv#.

Not very subtle info call for Ken Duncan for il state rep. Call ended after a series of "here is some information, now would you vote for him?" Questions, but the last information about his support for marijuana legalization didn't have the prompt ... The line just went dead.

Super cute.

Nature is

Nature is not your friend. We need nature. We depend upon it for much of our survival. But nature wants to kill us and turn us into something else. Probably random atoms. Nature will win. But until then we have each other. we will hold off the dark of entropy and in so doing we will strive to be less constrained and so less dependent on nature. We must learn from our enemy but we must always strive for one more day of victory.

We must establish a national Living Wage that's tied to the real cost of living. Too many families are falling behind in the light of rising costs of basic needs like health care, food, housing and transporation.

Insofar as the idea of a living wage depends on knowing what the real costs are for real people, any such system would be subject to error as it is generally more difficult to measure the real costs facing people, than it is to know their income. The idea that immediately lept into my head was that this could be mitigated by the provision of a packaged living wage lifestyle.

But on the other hand credit/debit/etc payments might be collecting very good information on what people are spending their money on, with specific regional granularity. Yikes, it starts to feel a little big brother.

A little related news

Disease and intelligence: Mens sana in corpore sano: "

Parasites and pathogens may explain why people in some parts of the world are cleverer than those in others

HUMAN intelligence is puzzling. It is higher, on average, in some places than in others. And it seems to have been rising in recent decades. Why these two things should be true is controversial. This week, though, a group of researchers at the University of New Mexico propose the same explanation for both: the effect of infectious disease.

Media Comments

Perhaps this might be my home for media commentary. Focusing mostly on the Idiot Box of course.

I suppose related fandoms might come into it too.

Watching HIMYM: Girls vs Suits

I want to see NPH and James Marsters together in something.

Maybe slash? ;)