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Some time ago I posted about the Queen of America. Peter Kurth of Dissident Voice nominates Angelina Jolie. Not only does America need a...

Two great tastes that taste bad together. (If he had done Badtz Maru, would anyone have even noticed?)

One of the challenges of making sense out of the war in Iraq is the lack of news about what's really going on in most of the country; jo...

Okay, this is a particularly geeky post, worse even than Ambush Bug, but I know that I have readers who will enjoy it. Via MKB's link...

Whaddaya know. Stephanie Zacharek inspires me to want to see Miami Vice ! Miami Vice is good, although perhaps not simply good: This is ...

Alexa Kitchen is a prolific young comic book artist who has a book coming out soon, Drawing Comics is Easy! (Except When It's Hard!) ....

Tim at The Road to Surfdom translates the GAO's assessment of the National Strategy for Victory in Iraq out of beaurocratic language. T...

The Poor Man offers a parable. Far away, in the magical country of Epistomolia, there live two peoples. One people, called the Seers, bel...

For my knitting-obsessed readers—and yes, I have a few—a tree cosy. No, that's not a typo.

While talking illuminatingly about the relationship between Democrats and libertarians, Hilzoy makes an astonishing observation. Democrat...

Posts on this subject are obviously fraught, so first: I keep an index of resources the moral question is simpl...

Juan Cole rolls up a bunch of news from the Israel-Lebanon border. It seems that the Israelis are inflicting more casualties than they are ...

Okay, it's difficult to imagine a geekier subject than Ambush Bug, who is a peculiar and very silly inside joke in DC superhero comi...

Via an excellent post about the Bush administration's boneheaded foreign policy thinking by Ezra Klein, I learn that Chris Albritton of...

Sorry to drop out for a bit, faithful readers and friends. I've been on the road for a gruelling round of work. I'll be trying to ca...

Matthew Yglasias worries that war hawks have been reading too many comic books. As you may know, the Green Lantern Corps is a sort of i...

James Woods is apparently going to be starring in a new TV series, Shark . Warren Ellis has seen the pilot, and has some well-sharpened wor...

Via The Wild Hunt, I learn of a delightful interview with J.C. Hallman on Bookslut, flogging his new book about peculiar religions, The De...

Via Monkeyboy's Linkblog, Edward Hasbrouk tells yet another scary tale of anxious folks with guns and badges at the airport. When any...

I've been meaning to blog this, one of my favourite bits of web art, since I started blogging. Somehow I never got around to it. Young-...

Cirque de Soleil + The Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Band of All Time

Brad DeLong's post Greg Mankiw Explains Why Economists Favor Immigration is not only incisive on the subject of immigration. As is ofte...

When there's news in the Middle East that's obviously complicated enough that watching the news just makes me more and more confused...

Thomas Disch reflects on some peculiar ethical dimensions of war. she seemed to think it was unfair that more than half of Palestine's...

Once upon a time, I was fourteen years old and hoping that the next video would contain pretty girls. Instead Devo taught me the power of m...

Syd Barrett 1946-2006 Crazy diamond If pressed to make these kinds of invidious comparisons I'll admit that—mock them as you rig...

As an interaction designer, I'm most interested in working on systems that are either consumer products or specialist tools for folks li...

Torturing a madman to get him to support Bush administration policy with fake intelligence. Really. Go read. It's even worse than it s...

Via Miriam I learn that something truly astonishing is happening today: arcology advocate and all-around mad architecture genius Paolo Sole...

Join Improv Everywhere for Mission: Best Buy. The reaction from the employees was pretty typical as far as our missions go. The lower leve...