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From Roger Ebert it is encouraging that well-crafted thrillers are still being made about characters who have dialogue, identities, motive...

I know some folks think that we lefties are being paranoid when we worry about the President believing that he's on a Mission From God....

Via Eric Red, I learn that a giant time-travelling mechanical elephant got lost on its way to Black Rock City and found itself in Nantes,...

If the Bush Administration sincerely believed that there were WMDs in Iraq, as they claimed, then you would expect that their plan for the i...

DeLong makes an astonishing observation: the years since 1945 have been the longest period since 113 B.C. in which no army has crossed the...

The Boston Globe tells us: President Bush has quietly claimed the authority to disobey more than 750 laws enacted since he took office, a...

If you care about Porter Goss' sudden resignation as head of the CIA, after a long tenure as yet another anti-competent Bush appoin...

While looking for something very different, I stumbled across the Thelemic qabalistic paintings of artist The Black Bull on flickr. His w...

From the Variety review of Mission Impossible III Tom Cruise ... seems determined to give a persuasive human impersonation of a Ferrari....

It is popularly reported that the President of Iran has declared an intent to wipe Israel off the map. Juan Cole argues that this just isn...

Shorter Richard Cohen So Not Funny It's rude to satirize the news media by alluding to real news items if the President is in the room...

Brad DeLong, economist and Internet Hero First Class, stacks up a bunch of great resources on immigration.

Via Wil Wheaton, a great Huffington Post article on net neutrality. If Net Neutrality is gutted, Google, eBay, and YouTube either pay pro...

Fareed Zakaria explains why proposed "guest worker" programs are pernicious, dumb, and bad for America by pointing to how this ha...

Ron Rosenbaum at Slate has some interesting, pessimistic observations about United 93 , the new film about the events on the 9/11 flight tha...

One other thing about that Ron Rosenbaum article, for folks who raise an eyebrow whenever they see the Spooky Number of the Æon. (For those...

Yezida has a beautiful thought in honour of the day. Though it occurs to me that really it's traditional to say "&#@!! The Man...

Oui, je suis Marxiste, tendance Groucho.

The White House Correspondents' Dinner is a who's who of Washington—the President is always the guest of honour—and it's traditi...

John Kenneth Galbraith 1908 - 2006 Economist I'll let Brad DeLong say it better than I could. If there were justice in the world, ...

They're gloomy, dirty, and cruel. But most of them are very clever. Have fun!

Via Gary Farber's Amygdala, I learn of a survey of intellectual property weirdness that includes this gem: For including a 60-second ...

Zellweger A rogue mathematician named Shea Zellweger has created a notation he calls the logic alphabet. We need a better...

Jeanne at Body and Soul asks Do you ever get the feeling Jimmy Carter just took the stupid little job of being president for a few years a...

I posted a while ago about the turn Doonesbury has taken with B. D. injured in the Iraq war. It's remained a recurring element of the ...

From an origami "life of Buddha" series on an amazing origami site, via Apostropher.

J.A.C.Brown, from Social Psychology of Industry : If managers' orders were completely obeyed, confusion would result and production and...

Jane Jacobs 1916-2006 Urbanist Dilettante We just lost Jane Jacobs. Ninety years old, and working on yet another book. She didn't...

Today is Yom Ha'Shoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. I presume that you've heard of the Holocaust already. Let me offer you a th...

Okay, remaking trailers we've done soundtrack , editing , and voiceovers ; now let's look at transitions in Sleepless .