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Okay, I'm late, but check out these Chrismukkah cards . In comments, my mother expresses disapproval of the cards' irreverence....

So I finally caught What the (Bleep) Do We Know!? , the film about the mystical implications of modern science that's sweeping the na...

Often my readers say to me, “Jonathan, your aura of Hermetic mystery leads me to wonder what occult secrets you might reveal on your blog...

Check out this set of haunting photographs: Mirrors: Photographs from the Arkansas State Prison 1915-1937

China Miéville offers us a little cautionary tale in the web pages of Socialist Review . Don't get me wrong. I haven't got share...

Susan Sontag 1933 - 2004 American public intellectual I feel hesitant, unqualified to comment on her, even though I'm a fan of her w...

Further evidence that Austin, Texas, is just as nutty as San Francisco.

From the DefenseTech.com article "Armed Drones Rolling to Iraq" As soon as March or April, eighteen Talon robots armed with au...

Yes, it's crossover humor time, this time with Kit Marlowe ! For long and weary hours, I bored myself Counting the old, tired webs ...

John 1:1 Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος καὶ ὁ λόγος πρὸς τὸν θεόν καὶ θεὸς ἦν ὁ λόγος En arche en ho logos kai ho logos en pros ton theon ...

A little something from Neil Gaiman , if you haven't seen it before. Nicholas was older than sin, and his beard could grow no whit...

One among ten things the Chinese do far better than we do In Tianjin, a city of 13 million people, traffic lights display red or green s...

In case you haven't heard, there's a new Batman Begins trailer out. You may recall that I'm pretty excited about this picture...

Big Media Matt has some really clear thinking about the politics of personal risk. In general, it's an excellent thing when people t...

In The PvP Christmas Special , we learn the truth about Santa Claus . Little kids, don't follow that link. It's a secret for grow...

A meditation for today. Yes, George W. Bush is Time magazine's Man of the Year . ( Not necessarily an endorsement, I know, but still...

I thought that my crowned tooth and eyeglasses qualified me as a little bit of a cyborg . But then MKB pointed me at this guy .

Big Media Matt makes a dark little observation with troubling consequences. Bad urban public school performance and the attendant absenc...

Yes, he's gone mad . But he's still entertaining. Check out Christopher Hitchens interviewed by Jon Stewart .

Big Media Matt points us at the Think Again feature in Foreign Policy discussing Middle East democracy . The canards debunked are: The ...

Really. That's pillows that look like sushi, rather than made of sushi or for letting your sushi rest comfortably. Via Collectiv...

DeLong makes a trenchant observation . Let me try to state this clearly and concisely: the U.S. has a *massive* national security intere...

My mother reminded me recently about these silly aphorisms of "Zen Judaism". Though not all of them are Buddhist ... The Tao has...

Several months ago, DeLong blogged about the war over Clinton's health care plan, and pointed me to this quote from a PBS story , mak...

Meme-du-jour for lefty wonks is Peter Beinart's “An Argument for a New Liberalism: A fighting faith” published in The New Republic ...

The best poem I've read all week, via Mark A. R. Kleiman . Wile E. Coyote Wile E. Coyote --- super-genius, western Daedalus o...

Apostropher on civil discourse in today's divisive political climate. Well, I'm just having me a grand old time reading all the ...

You know I try to resist blog memes, but who can resist a superhero identity? Pharyngula started it , but I found out through Majikthise ...

Kevin Drum has a few questions for conservatives. Considering how Iraq has gone so far, do you still think that American military power ...

From Los Angeles Craigslist, I offer you Hey, Mr White SUV! By the time you read this it will be way too late I quickly stepped backward...