Raw Meat is a tumblelog.

Anyone want a barely-used GSM Palm Pre?

The Top Ten Immediate Benefits You’ll Get When Health Care Reform Passes: #9 C-SPAN’s _Washington Journal_ returns to its usual timeslot.

Even the best sidewalks can’t compete with the joy of running down the middle of the street

re http://j.mp/cqmBQw here’s my new metaphor for China owning all our debt: China has a water pistol pointed at us…and we’re on fire!

both incredible and frustrating how few people realize the Fed is responsible for all this unemployment…

hey @stevenharms @TauPowered @psantora and others, does http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whynojobs make sense on why the problem is the Fed?

writing this piece kind of made me want to be a teacher: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/theoryofchange

“with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see”

This Beatles lyric actually makes a rather interesting philosophical point: With eyes closed, you don’t get any direct visual input; instead, you make predictions about what you would see if your eyes were open. The only time you get anything approaching visual input from the outside world is when those predictions are wrong — i.e. there’s a misunderstanding. In those instances, your other senses give you new evidence about the real world that you use to correct your predictions. Thus, those misunderstandings are, quite literally, all you see.

Of course, the more obvious interpretation is simply that you don’t see much if your eyes are closed.

wow, @ezraklein really does type with just two fingers. it’s amazing!