Wednesday

Paul Kedrosky
The leak numbers are now, and have always been, larger than the number from official sources. Even the 60,000 bpd revised estimates tonight are likely too low, as the leak taskforce members concedes is possible. The flow rate is increasing as erosion causes the pressures to expand the drill hole and increase the flow of oil on a daily basis. Given enough time Matt will be correct, if he isn't already -- after all, this is a 100mm barrel-ish reservoir at immense pressure.

Robin Hanson
Industry has devised hyper-stimulating food, art, stories, sport, games, drugs, etc., which rich low-self-control folks eagerly consume, at the expense of work, kids, and work-like-hobbies. Hyper-status-seeking can compensate, inducing more work and hobbies, but not more kids. Most are deluded to think this a stable situation; if allowed, gene and culture selection would rapidly cut such waste. Most also have the addict’s delusion, “I can quit anytime I want.”

The Awl
• Katy Perry bends over to allow suited day traders to snort colored sugar off her back with Pixy Stix straws.
• Katy Perry solders together both of the Twix bars that come in the wrapper to make a candy version of a double dildo, then shrugs.

How do I control and manipulate people legally?
Make sure there's never quite enough money, or time, or goods, or status, or anything else people might want. Insufficiency makes sick systems self-perpetuating, because if there's never enough ______ to fix the system, and never enough time to think of a better solution, everyone has to work on all six cylinders just to keep the system from collapsing.
• Katy Perry uses Circus Peanuts to dab up the excess moisture from her stomach after her sex partner ejaculates on it.

I'm Comic Sans Asshole
When people need to kick back, have fun, and party, I will be there, unlike your pathetic fonts. While Gotham is at the science fair, I'm banging the prom queen behind the woodshop. While Avenir is practicing the clarinet, I'm shredding Reign In Blood on my double-necked Stratocaster