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For Memorial Day, a quote from our master memorialist, Maya Lin, who gave us the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial in Washington DC from a...

The tech industry is full of libertarians who think that government meddling only causes trouble, and the free market would take care of all...

Here's Kenneth " The Threatening Storm " Pollack describing a Certain World Leader. [He] has a number of pathologies ... h...

Brad DeLong points out that the Guardian reports that the CIA is thinking we've been played by the Iranians. An urgent investigati...

Bitch magazine is super-cool. Dig this new article about the semantics of "choice" in pseudo-feminist rhetoric. The word’s pr...

Susan Sontag risks asinine misreadings from the right to bring you her thoughts on Abu Ghraib . It's so complex and good, I refuse to e...

Just guess: who is this unsigned editorial talking about? Articles based on dire claims about Iraq tended to get prominent display, while...

Conspiracy theories flourish in an environment where good information is not available ... like our media environment in which the Bush admi...

A very odd story from Long story, short pier , by way of A 20'x20' Room . It's, you know, the sort of thing you'll like if ...

You may not have heard of the Museum of Bad Art. It's more than just a joke --- though it is, of course, mostly that --- there's som...

I just received this chain letter from my mother. When Norway was occupied by Germany in 1940, Norwegian women began to knit red caps fo...

Amazing what you find in the pages of The Economist . On the subject of rock 'n' roll lifestyle, Ted Nugent tells us that he's w...

Reading opaque contemporary academic theory-head writing is a vice of mine. I love it when Donna Haraway says stuff like The evidence ...

On their corporate information pages, you can see a list of ten things Google has found to be true . Focus on the user and all else wil...

It's political, incisive, made with clip art, full of bad language, and funny as hell . I cannot describe the majesty of Get Your War On...

My seders are not like this. Mostly not, anyway. The Four Questions (re-written for a Lesbian Feminist Santa Cruz Seder that strangely is N...

O people of Baghdad remember that for 26 generations you have suffered under strange tyrants who have ever endeavoured to set on Arab hou...

It's a dilemma we all face. I've either got to narrow the scope of things I claim to have an informed opinion on, clone myself, a...

From Long story; short pier , a weblog full of strange stuff, this gem: Roz Kaveney knew Christopher Hitchens. And you, sir -- Oh, my...

Mind you, she said it in New York City, not in a place like where most Americans live. Our songs and cities are the best things about us....

You have likely seen those American Library Association posters with celebrities holding books under the big injunction Read . It turns out ...

Remind the DJ or band that they work for you, and they'll damn well play anything you want. For some reason I think this may be less of ...

You know, back in 2000 a Republican friend of mine warned me that if I voted for Al Gore and he won, the stock market would tank, we'd...

I'm feeling mighty pleased about the gay marriages happening back East right now. As the culture battles rev up again, Pandagon has a go...

More wedding pictures , folks!

So in the process of looking for something else entirely, I stumbled across this site of old cyber-stuff , apparently last updated in 1997. ...

Fifty years ago today — within living memory — the United States Supreme Court overturned local law and custom in the landmark decision B...

Everyone knows the question How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? For years I have known that this qu...

If you like paragraphs like this one Baudrillard's concept of simulation is the creation of the real through conceptual or "myt...

Another demonstration of our president and public being terrifyingly scientifically illiterate is the blocking of stem cell research. When p...