I discovered some very old Mitchell and Webb skits (note the model of Apple computers used). Really excellent stuff. Stacking.
Since these posts are basically trees falling in a lonely forest, I can just keep posting about radio stories. Simply because I want to, even if you don’t. Here’s a brilliant bit of radio by Robert Krulwich, presented during a lecture by another genius reporter, Nancy Updike.
Me pulling obvious excerpts from front page stories: Part 10 or so?»
An independent investigation into Japan’s response to the nuclear crisis reveals TEPCO, Japan’s primary power provider, at one point wanted to evacuate all its workers from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant. This would have essentially left no one to keep things under control, leading to further radiation leakage and plant closures, and quite possibly the eventual evacuation of Tokyo. According to the investigation’s leader, Yoichi Funabashi, this TEPCO plan did not go through for one primary reason.
He [Funabashi] credited Mr. Kan with making the right decision in forcing Tepco not to abandon the plant.
“Prime Minister Kan had his minuses and he had his lapses,” Mr. Funabashi said, “but his decision to storm into Tepco and demand that it not give up saved Japan.”
Howard Clifford running off the Tacoma Narrows Bridge during collapse, 7 Nov. 1940
Sperm Donation as the Future for Men»
Obviously anything about how millenials can’t find jobs and how women are replacing men in the workplace is trite. Still, this little paragraph made me laugh:
Here’s another good line of reasoning, one that speaks to angsty, entitled, self-hating, misanthropic Millennials everywhere: sperm donation allows you to populate the world with dozens of little versions of you. It’s the ultimate vengeance on the society that doesn’t yet recognize your amazing gifts.
Just finished reading the piece. Turns out the rest of it isn’t as funny/interesting.
