Author: Aaron Weber

Imitating Warren Buffett by Donating to WHAT?

So Warren Buffett is giving away money, huh? Well, humorist Adam Green is doing the same. From his “nearly a decade of gainful employment” he donates 85% of his personal fortune of just over six thousand dollars, including the value of his iTunes music library.

Then he details his meagre and likely useless donations, including at the end “You know how when some group or other looking for a handout sends you a sheet of those personalized return-address labels you sort of feel guilted into contributing, as if you owned them something? In any case, I sent $25 to Islamic Jihad.”

Disreputable but Legal Markets

I don’t know why, but I find both of these articles hilarious.

NYT on Marijuana in SF: “What both sides can agree on — in classic San Francisco fashion — is that the problem is really Oakland’s fault…. The rising neighborhood opposition to the clubs also stands in striking juxtaposition to the personal political beliefs of many in San Francisco, a city that prides itself on a progressive attitude.”

And on prostitutes in Germany: “To the list of pernicious things that have not happened at this World Cup, add one more: a spike in the sex trade. While clubs like Artemis have been busier than usual after games, the tournament has generated nowhere near the surge in demand for prostitution — or the influx of temporary prostitutes from Eastern Europe and Asia — that many experts predicted.”

Calexico

I went to see Calexico last night at the Roxy. It was excellent. They do a sort of borderlands rock that I think is both beautiful and intelligent. But maybe it’s just cause I’m a sucker for a steel guitar.

Anyway, they closed with a cover of Manu Chao‘s song El Desaparecido, which I had almost forgotten about: Cuando me buscan nunca estoy, cuando me encuentran yo no soy…