December 2009

I’m in the latest issue of Interesting Times

by Ferdinand Bardamu 12.31.2009

I’ve contributed to an article in Swedish cyberpunk mag Interesting Times on predictions for the new year. Go check out Issue #3 here – I’m on pages 36-37. Thanks to AHA for this opportunity. Also read the rest of the magazine, which includes contributions from such luminaries as Dmitry Orlov, Alex Birch, and Tom Chittum. [...]

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On the eve of the eve

by Ferdinand Bardamu 12.31.2009

It’s Wednesday afternoon as I type this draft up in Microsoft Word. I’m supposed to be working, but nobody cares enough to monitor my constant abuse of a taxpayer-funded computer. Another four-day weekend ahead. Hooray! Am I the only heartless a-hole who prefers New Years over Christmas? Jesus’ birthday is fun enough I suppose, but [...]

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Everything I know about life, I learned from public service announcements

by Ferdinand Bardamu 12.30.2009

In Syracuse, there’s a brand new radio station calling itself CNY Talk Radio and billing itself as “the new alternative for talk.” The station takes that “alternative” part very seriously. For instance, instead of having a website like every other ordinary business in the year 2009, CNY Talk Radio has a Twitter page! Not only [...]

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Here come the sexbots!

by Ferdinand Bardamu 12.30.2009

Hat tip: Eolake Stobblehouse.

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Not all nerds are libertarians, but almost all libertarians are nerds

by Ferdinand Bardamu 12.29.2009

Commenter TG left these remarks on an Obsidian post I linked last Sunday on why a disproportionate number of atheists are nerds: Of course smart guys hate religion. Smart men typically don’t follow(in many cases) follow their impulses to make decisions. Religion is designed to protect people from their own internal impulses. Atheism is fine [...]

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A very Bardamu Christmas

by Ferdinand Bardamu 12.28.2009

My Christmas Eve was spent at my grandparents’ house in the rural wastelands south of Syracuse, chumming with the other Bardamus who braved snow, sleet, and skin-cracking cold in the spirit of family reunion. That evening, after dinner had been consumed, I was with the rest of the guys in the downstairs shop drinking cheap [...]

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Linkage is Good for You: Christmas Weekend Hangover Edition

by Ferdinand Bardamu 12.27.2009

  Despite what some may think, this pic of Adi Himelbloy is the first one of a hot, sexy Israeli girl to appear on my blog. On Christmas weekend. There’s a joke here somewhere, but I’m too lazy to write it. Also, readers might note that despite being a contributor to The Spearhead, I’ve never included [...]

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What the Internet is really for

by Ferdinand Bardamu 12.26.2009
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Merry Christmas

by Ferdinand Bardamu 12.25.2009

The Journey of the Magi by T.S. Eliot A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp, The very dead of winter. And the camels galled, sore-footed, refractory, Lying down in the melting snow. There [...]

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One Splotch of Yellow Makes the Whole World Disgusted

by Ferdinand Bardamu 12.24.2009
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Yesterday afternoon was my office’s Christmas party, held at a nondescript chain restaurant in the suburbs. You wish you were me. Anyway, after four chicken wings, three mozzarella sticks, and a pint-and-a-half of Yuengling had worked their way through my system, I burst into the bathroom for the mother of all excretions. I squeezed my [...]

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When white knights attack

by Ferdinand Bardamu 12.23.2009

Disrespect a girl and risk getting your ass kicked: What began as an innocent mistake ended in a vicious attack on a local honor student. Police said as many as 11 students beat up the eighth-grader leaving him severely injured, and he may even lose his sight. The incident near a school soccer field was [...]

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If you oppose universal healthcare, Rock the Vote wants to make sure you never get laid again

by Ferdinand Bardamu 12.23.2009

Via Tom at Federalist Paupers, here’s something to laugh hysterically at: That blonde chick is hot, but her nauseating repetition of Marxist talking points (the personal is NOT political you silly little girl) makes me want to choke her. With my cock. And get a load of that mangina. It’s like I said – liberal [...]

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When chastity is a vice and promiscuity is a virtue

by Ferdinand Bardamu 12.22.2009

Amid all the hubbub surrounding Tiger Woods’ Caligulan escapades, Miles asks a very good question over at Dennis Mangan’s: There was a time in the not-so-distant past that none of these twelve women would want to be identified for fear of earning the title of “loose woman” from the rest of our society. Now they [...]

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Why men shouldn’t write advice columns

by Ferdinand Bardamu 12.22.2009

Hat tip: Φ.

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All people learn the same

by Ferdinand Bardamu 12.21.2009

Another artifact of leftist thinking smashed: If you’ve ever sat through a teaching seminar, you’ve probably heard a lecture about “learning styles.” Perhaps you were told that some students are visual learners, some are auditory learners, and others are kinesthetic learners. Or maybe you were given one of the dozens of other learning-style taxonomies that [...]

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The five fingered double standard and the policing of male sexuality

by Ferdinand Bardamu 12.21.2009

Over the weekend, J. DeVoy of The Legal Satyricon linked my recent post on sexbots and brought up a dimension of the debate I hadn’t considered: Men with the current equivalent of sexbots, Real Dolls, are typecast as moribund losers incapable of human interaction. In contrast, women broadcast their sexuality and are rewarded for doing so. [...]

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The verdict

by Ferdinand Bardamu 12.21.2009

The peanut gallery has spoken, and here’s what going down. Per the results of the poll, the link-Tweets are mostly going away. I say “mostly” because Tweeting has a useful purpose in getting information out quickly. Therefore, I’ll stick to Tweeting only time-sensitive news items and blog updates. Most blog posts and opinion pieces will [...]

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Linkage is Good for You: We’re All Going to Die Edition

by Ferdinand Bardamu 12.20.2009

New on the roll: Calculated Risk: “FDIC Bank Failure Update” Yves Smith – “Bank of England Calls Bluff of Bankers Who Threaten to Depart UK to Avoid Taxes” Broward Horne – “Shoot the Messenger” Barry Ritholtz – “Updating the Misery Index (Global Version)” Tyler Durden – “Cautionary Observations from a Chronological Analysis of the S&P [...]

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You get to decide the future of this blog – sort of

by Ferdinand Bardamu 12.19.2009

I have a question to pose to you, my unwaveringly loyal readership, concerning my love of linking. Ever since I began blogging half-a-year ago, I’ve been sharing links via Twitter. With the bit.ly bookmarklet for Google Chrome, it doesn’t require any effort to post link-Tweets – I just click a couple of buttons and presto chango, [...]

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Nobody cares what you think

by Ferdinand Bardamu 12.18.2009

That is, if you are an Albany Common Councilman who is upset at a certain reality show whose name rhymes with Tersey Gore: Amid the crush of end-of-the-year legislation the Albany Common Council will consider Monday night is this resolution offered by 9th Ward Councilman James Sano calling for the cancellation of the MTV’s controversial [...]

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The sexbots cometh

by Ferdinand Bardamu 12.17.2009

In all of the Roissyspheric hubbub about the coming sexbot revolution and how it will irrevocably alter the sexual marketplace, few have considered that it’s entirely possible to design bots that are more enjoyable to bang then flesh-and-blood women. With a sexbot, you’ll never have to suffer through another overly-toothy blowjob, nor will the act [...]

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Another brilliant time waster

by Ferdinand Bardamu 12.17.2009

Behold, the Zombie Outbreak Simulator, which allows you to see how a undead invasion of Washington, D.C. might go down. You can tweak variables and watch as the zombies and civvies go toe to toe on an actual Google map of the capital. Yep, I’m definitely not getting any work done this week. Hat tip: [...]

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