Miniver Cheevy

I just played a strange game of chess in a dream. I have a soft spot for chess variants. I think it's my hope that there's one of t...

I was just talking to a friend about critical thinking skills, and the commonplace lack thereof, and how this is one of the things everyone ...

Happy Year of the Fire Dog! Today might be a good day to check out Firedoglake , which is a pretty good lefty blog.

Trogdor has just turned three years old. Happy trogday to you Happy trogday to you Happy trogday, dear Trogdor Happy trogday to you! A...

I haven't seen The Muppet Show since I was a kid. One bit from it that I remember was the episode in which Madeline Kahn was the gue...

Googling on "Dirty" Harry Callahan's immortal words "go ahead, make my day," I stumbled across a witty and interesti...

Via MKB , I learn that one person dares to truly consider the question. (Oh, and that makes me think of another thing entirely. )

John in DC at AMERICAblog connects the dots about what it means if the Bush administration's illegal wiretaps included taps on journali...

From the magnificent Paul Conrad.

I know that I have a number of qabalist readers, so it occurred to me that y'all might like to use some new Tree of Life diagram images ...

Somewhere, I recall a bit of advice about writing fiction: that you should figure out what your obsessions are, and go deep into them, ra...

Naomi Wolf just admitted that she recently found Jesus.

Apparently, it's now illegal to be anonymous and annoying online. You can go to jail for two years! Don't get me wrong, I oppose t...

Ken MacLeod is spooked by rumblings of war with Iran. 'There is a feeling of 1914 in the air,' Denis MacShane remarked the other d...

Via Ashub, I find a guide to forming a heavy metal band full of delightfully unhelpful explanations of the difference between black metal ...

Dear Mr. Trudeau: I've enjoyed your strip since I was a young sprout. Usually still do. However. Please stop being a sanctimoni...

52% of Americans polled favour impeachment hearings for the President if he ordered wiretapping Americans without judicial oversight, which ...

Jeanne at Body and Soul extracts the essence of a story in the Washington Post . one of the prisoners at Guantanamo, Saddiq Ahmad Turkist...

So a few months back, I spent a week in Brazil. Most folks come back from a trip abroad with pictures of themselves in front of sightseein...

For more than a decade, I've been spamming people with this note every year. Now that I have a blog, I'm just sticking to re-posting...

I learn that a Mr. Jonathon Sharkey is running for Governor of Minnesota in 2006. Honesty is very seldom heard nowadays, especially from ...

Via Warren Ellis, I learn that this map was apparently made in China a few decades before Christopher Columbus was even born. Or was it?

This post was originally a quote-and-link to “Revenge of the Mutt People”, calling it “a long, brilliant, poetic, ugly screed singing bot...