Kahomono - Still Lucky After All These Years

Random musings on whatever catches my attention that day

David F

How to Contract

A Chicago design firm called Segura has this as their entire contract form now: In other words, "If we trust each other we'll work well together, and if not, then three reams of paper covered with finely printed legalese will never put that right." via BoingBoing

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David F

Golden Age or Golden City?

Midnight in Paris is a 2013 film that generated a lot of critical verbiage about Woody Allen's take on nostalgia. A longing for the "good old days" - referred to by one of those trademarked Woody Allen pedantic-prick characters as the "golden age fallacy", drives…

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David F

Condragulations, Sasha Velour!

Winner of Season 9 on RuPaul's Drag Race During the final competitive episode (12), she said she was "more true than real." Given that our current power structure is all too real, yet has a decidedly adversarial relationship to truth, I think "more true than…

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David F

Quiet Time

What a week it has been. Rethuglicans have made their intentions plain: fatten the tax-free offshore wealth of their owners at the cost of the lives of 20 million Americans who were too f*cking stupid to be born into families with mid-seven digits of net…

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David F

This is some next level sh*!

This is the headline from today's Slate. Spend a moment parsing this.... A Trump supporter is someone who does not think the press has a role other than to report the Pumpkin's propaganda. A Trump supporter has no f*ing clue what America is, or should…

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