Actually, come to think of it, I’m going to boycott ALL academic journals. Screw you journals! Journals suck. Besides, I’ve got a blog.

Key facts about me, Sonic Charmer, and why I am qualified to be the next President of the United States:

• Spent a great deal of time in academics, thereby safely insulated from the real world.
• I have never worked for or been associated a private equity fund. I barely even know what they do.
• Wife count: < 2 (strict inequality).
• Would be cool with Warren Buffet’s secretary’s tax rate being lowered by special Act of Congress. (I’d overhaul the tax code to be flatter for the rest of us, but Warren Buffet’s secretary, she’s a special case, we’re all very concerned about her)
• Visionary. I think we should build a giant space station next to a wormhole. An AMERICAN space station.
• Can read aloud printed words placed in my field of vision into an amplifying device (aka speech-giving). I also bet I’d be adept at rotating my head left and right and back again in a creepily-robotic and regular-periodic manner to simulate looking at individual audience members, while doing so.
• Tall. (VERY important)
• Will pledge to close Guantanamo Bay, just like my predecessor pledged, if that’ll help.
• I believe the children are the future. (I really do.)
• Have implemented zero (0) state-level Obamacares so would lack Mitt Romney’s baggage vs. Obama in the general election.
• Willing to pretend to have a pet cat and/or dog who is very important in my life, and then have a ghost-writer write a “book” on his/her/its behalf, once in the White House.
• Have not participated in any debates, so the Obama campaign will have no clips of me saying something silly/reckless/’scary’ for their negative campaigning
• Finally: I am a natural-born citizen of the United States, which you will know solely on my say-so. (It would be racist to ask me to prove it)

There’s more where that came from, but I don’t want to spoil the surprise. You have to vote me into the Presidency to find out what I’ll do there.

But that’s why they call it DECISION ’12!

“Does that mean I’m visionary? You betcha,” he said.

I think it’s terrific that he has finally admitted how visionary he (Newt) is. Must have been difficult. But hey, facts are facts. Good on him for acknowledging his visionaryness.

In this case, his visionary vision reveals itself in the form of saying he’ll make there be a ‘permanent base on the moon’ within 8 years (but only if we make him be the President. I bet he could still do it without being the President though, like if we gave him some grants).

So that would be around 2020, which hey, you know, only 21 years later than I had been anticipating…

After that, Newt wants to go to Mars, back where the red-cold sun is sinking to the Channels of A’DAAR.

Yikes, sorry, my references are all over the place here.

Thoughts On The SOTU from Clark Judge

P.S. RIP Lookout! Records

Only the last 1-2 would really get a thumbs-down.

Side note: At this rate, I have to assume that by the year 2017 or so, the only movies I’ll ever watch will all be connected or derived from Marvel Comics in some way.

1. Super 8
2. Midnight In Paris
3. Moneyball
4. Harry Potter the last
5. Captain America: The First Avenger
6. Unknown
7. Source Code
8. Thor
9. X-Men First Class
10. The Lincoln Lawyer
11. Cars 2
12. Battle Los Angeles
13. Bad Teacher
14. Limitless
15. Rio
16. The Adjustment Bureau
17. Kung Fu Panda 2
18. Margin Call
19. Sucker Punch

First, we all realized that he used to work for a private-equity firm (gasp). Private-equity firms, as everyone knows or at least figured out a couple weeks ago, are not ok. Not ok at all. Yes, technically it’s legal to work for one. They’re allowed to exist. I suppose. Grudgingly. But they’re just not ok things. And anyone associated with one at any time is henceforth disqualified from any role in society. (Unless they have a (D) after their name, then it’s ok)

But to add insult to injury, we have just recently learned that Mitt Romney paid the amount of taxes he was lawfully required to pay. That is just too much to bear. I was assuming, conservatively, that his tax return would show him to have paid 3x the amount, at least. Imagine my shock and horror to discover that he paid only 1x what he legally owed! Who does this guy think he is.

Just not Presidential material, that’s for sure. We Smart People have standards, and we apply them uniformly. (To (R)s)

Not that I can fully explain why, but I’m kinda embarrassed for them all. It’s like being at the Homecoming Dance and actually actively wanting to hear the Homecoming King’s acceptance speech, and then cheering wildly for it. Like those extras you see at the periphery of various school-dance or lunchtime-table scenes out of Sixteen Candles or Can’t Buy Me Love. Just why would you want to voluntarily make yourself into That Person? Does not the center of your life lie elsewhere? Even if not, isn’t there like a ton of better stuff to watch on TV than the yearly President Show? It’s not like you can’t read (later) what the guy said if you really care and think these prepared speeches actually mean anything. Do something at least more entertaining with that time. You all have cable and on-demand up the wazoo. Justified, Episode 2 should have been tonight. Temple Run on your iPad. Something, anything besides the annual laundry-list-of-reality-proof-applause-lines-and-oh-yeah-here’s-why-I’m-so-great from the President.

In one of those eigenstates, presumably – i.e., with nonzero quantum probability – the Union is actually a constitutional republic whose government abides by its founding document in accordance with the social compact between her and her citizenry, whose enumerated and unenumerated rights and liberties it respects. Perhaps the reason I refrain from observing the State of the Union is that I don’t want to risk collapsing the State Vector of the Union into some other eigenstate.