Monday: come on, disease assassins!

My ear clogged up again today, which suggests that my disease assassins aren't keeping up with their end of the bargain.

Maybe I hired the kind of hitman the Ice King was looking for.

Another "thing I put into my work notebook today":

Turns out ears are important.

 Therefore, I suspect tomorrow will need to involve lots of this:

"It took a long time to weave a bed, but it was totally worth the time."

• Man, fuck you, The Weekly Standard.  Nice job trying to lie with numbers, but numbers and I are friends.  For a fixed rate loan, monthly payments are calculated based on the monthly interest rate (APR/12) as Monthly/Principle = (r (1+r)^t)/(1+r)^t - 1).  So, plug in r = [0.068 0.029]./12, and then sum up over the 12 year term, and you get payment factors of [1.4656 1.1853].  This means the president's plan means you pay 18.5% in interest, whereas the default plan the WS supports is 46.5%.  Now, we can come up with difference in payments each month by simply subtracting the M/P fractions, and come up with the small amount WS does for P = 4000.  However, this isn't really a good way to estimate if something is fair, is it?  WS wants you accept that "those damn college kids" need to suck it up, since they're (on average) only paying $0.25 more day.  You can't even come up with a comparable "thing you buy daily" for such a small number. Looking at the percentages shows that it's really that for each dollar you borrow, the WS would rather you pay 46 cents in total interest instead of 18.  Why is this?  My best guess is that the WS is run by old curmudgeonly Republican bastards who think that kids these days should take what they're given and shut up.
• And here's the author's blog post copying that article where they claim that they've used the power of "simple division."  I can play that game too.  Federal debt = ~$17e9; US population = 313.9e6; Life expectancy = 78.64 years => Federal debt/person/day = $1.85.  What kind of absolute bastard thinks that civilization with a functional government isn't worth less than two dollars a day?  If we hadn't fucked around with tax rates to explode the debt, or if we implemented job creation policies to increase revenues, that wouldn't even be that bad.
• In other news, even young Republicans suspect that the party really doesn't stand for the things that they really believe in.
• Plus they're fighting themselves.  I would love to see them vote out Boehner.  Schisms always work out.  Always.
• The following links aren't serious.
• Ohs noes! Crabs! Particularly the ones drawn on the sign!
• Ok, maybe this one is serious.  Team Rocket really has a depressing backstory.  
• This is hilarious.  Do people really not understand that there are these spoiler-filled objects called "books," and they could read them to know what's going to happen on a TV show before it happens?