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Golly. Via Warren Ellis I learn that Vanity Fair has finally let the cat out of the bag about the identity of Woodward & Bernstein...

Brian Flemming is troubled that a new Schwarzenegger campaign commercial has some pretty blatant product placement. That's right, ma...

Tim Maroney explains why he is not a Christian. I am not a Christian. In my discussions of this fact with Christians, I have repeatedly ru...

1661 Picking February 24th of this year entirely at random: Specialist Jacob C. Palmatier, age 29 Staff Sergeant Daniel G. Gresham, age...

Patrick Nielsen Hayden says it for me about the flak we Iraq war doves are still taking. The reason so many in the Democratic "base...

One of the more arcane things I've been reading lately is Lounsbury , the blog of some dissolute expat bloke who does some kind of corpo...

It seems there's a new organization, After Downing Street , named in reference to the memo I talked about a bit ago. Here's how the...

BAGnewsNotes does some fascinating close readings of news photos. Here's a taste of the style. So, the obvious question is: Why would...

Joss Whedon on his student films. My biggest concentration was gender studies and feminism. That was sort of my unofficial minor. That was...

For the benefit of those of you who will laugh at this, I got spam today that caught my eye with this as the subject line: Re: [93/93]: Get...

From John Holbo , a new term that I feel confident I will be able to use. Zizek heavily favors what might be termed 'Tholian Web argume...

I passed this on to some friends, to prep them for Episode III. They found it useful, and recommended that I post it here. For those o...

Via Neil Gaiman I learn the solution to his sock trouble . It's BlackSocks.com , which has a cool business model. Blacksocks is the i...

For readers' convenience, I've created an index of dialogue with Demondoll2001 so you can see the full progress of the discussion ...

I'm fascinated by the cargo-cult scientism of this creationist museum . We pray that one day thousands will walk out of the museum and...

More horrific news from The New York Times about US soldiers torturing people. I'm sorry to do this to you, but here's a taste. A...

Via Kira April, a pretty clever bit of meta-slash literature. Sulking, they sit in silence for a moment. Then Spike says, softly, "S...

It's considered rude to use an image on your website that it hosted by someone else's server. If the person publishing that image p...

"Mixed" seems like an inadequate word to describe the reviews for Star Wars Episode III: Return of the Sith . The picture is pract...

In the course of reviewing the silly action movie XXX: State of the Union , Roger Ebert notices that there's cultural progress in black...

I've just discovered that the dazzling opening chapter of Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash is available online. In the unlikely event t...

Brad DeLong again. It's acceptable in academia to be a Democrat. It's acceptable to be a libertarian. It's simply embarrassing...

Friends will tell you that I have a good sense of culinary adventure. My time as a vegan taught me to enjoy a number of hippie foods that mo...

Soon, Roger Ebert will post his review of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith , which will displace the strange placeholder which si...

I missed the anniversary of the Abu Ghraib scandal breaking. Arthur Silber of The Light of Reason was on the case, and comments on what ...

Metaphilm has a witty article about continuity geekery. If Scotty witnesses Captain Kirk’s death at the beginning of Star Trek VII , ...

Words fail to describe this strange work of art .

MKB has some fine words about riding a motorcycle. Some of that connection is because the rider has no physical separation from the surrou...

Perhaps you've heard about the secret Downing Street memo by an aide about UK Prime Minister Blair's meeting about Iraq policy. If ...

Here in San Francisco, I have had countless people tell me with a straight face that building housing increases housing costs. Yglasias kno...