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What with bloggers on the right inspired by the Virgina Tech shooting to pound the table about how brave they would have been in that s...

Ganked in its entirety from Overheard in New York. I Don't Think You Quite Grasp This Manliness Business Electric guy to himself: Wh...

CLEAR is a service allowing faster airport security checkpoints for pre-screened travelers. Aside from being spooky, it's bad securit...

#@*!! You may have heard that the Supreme Court just upheld the Federal abortion ban law passed in '03. The law prohibits abortions in...

What's that you say? You want a physics experiment you can do that will hurt your brain with a clear demonstration of the counterintuiti...

The Poor Man learns about the Vice President's travel arrangements. Seriously, is Cheney trying to make himself into a cartoon supervi...

There's Charlie Watts. Commercial artist and award-winning jazz bandleader. His day job is drummer for the Rolling Stones. There's...

Via Ken MacLeod, I learn that the Scottish Socialist Party makes a surprisingly entertaining and sensible argument supporting universal f...

Via Warren Ellis, I learn of a well-earned googlebombing attack on Moodia and BoggleIt, and I am happy to participate.

Like a lot of restless Americans, I was charmed by Senator John McCain during the 2000 primaries. A friend of mine described a journalist w...

From How the World Works, hosted by Salon, via Infinite Perplexity: I must have led a sheltered life, because prior to today I was unawar...

I think that Hilzoy’s long essay Liberating Iraq has made me categorically more pacifist than I was before I read it. This is an...

My brother and his wife are both musicians. Like many musicians, and myself, they have a fondness for the great fictional composer P.D.Q. Ba...

From a good little commentary at Click Opera about a report on the British Army's actual long term planning: I must say I think the Br...

European former Iraq hawk Bjørn Stærik asks What Went Wrong? Bless him, he blames hawks—himself among them—for misjudging just about every...

I have a friend who's a very serious amateur scholar of ancient civilizations' religions and philosophies. He takes a dim view of...

For the deeply geeky: I just found out about the fate of Moonbase Alpha.

This blog mourns the passing of the #15 Municipal Transit Bus, eliminated in favour of the new T line. You may recall that the #15 has move...

Via the Wild Hunt, I learn that David Attenborough asks an interesting question. Animals were the first things that human beings drew. No...

Via the unbelievably clever zombie discussion thread over at Making Light, I learn of a little horror story that is clever, scary, and kin...

Sorry to drop out for a while there, folks. I've been quite preöccupied. Mr Vonnegut's passing has roused me, and I'll try to g...

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. 1922-2007 American novelist Like a lot of brainy, vaguely disaffected folks, I read a lot of Mr Vonnegut's wri...

This post about understanding social class in the US has evolved and developed over time. It started with the overview of the Fussell sys...