Miniver Cheevy

Off the air for the next week. See you on the playa.

The current hot article about Senator Obama is a piece in the New York Times Magazine about Obama's thinking about economic policy. ...

Maybe it's just that I'm in the throes of a series of moves — with the current one being a move into a little studio — but I'm ...

Via Digby, part of a mortifying post by Somerby at the Daily Howler about how journalist Margaret Carlson describes covering presidential ...

I love weird orthography, and have been meaning to post something about 12480 for quite some time. It's a notation system for hexad...

If you're a GMail user (and if you're not, why not?) you should see about securing your GMail connection. This is much easier than ...

I've been muttering on this blog and elsewhere about the housing bubble for quite some time. It's hard for most people to follow th...

Three items for y'all: Via Rivet Pep Squad, I learn about the delightful answer to the age-old question: Can Scientists Dance? But li...

Veleda asks: What is the ideal political system? what values would it need to express? How would it operate efficiently? And would you g...

David Foster Wallace has some questions I like. Are some things still worth dying for? Is the American idea * one such thing? Are you up ...

I love the Gospel of Thomas. It was among the apocryphal Christian writings thought lost until the discovery of the Nag Hammadi library ...

Lovely just as an example of graphic design, and scarily true. You can buy it from Northern Sun.

Barry Alfonso at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette , whom I quoted in my post on the mysteries of Mary Worth , writes in. I wanted to take ...

Adequacy.org speaks in praise of David Icke. You may remember Mr Icke from a previous post of mine; he believes in an elaborate conspiracy...

Via Content Love, Sherri at Philosecurity tells a story about flying without ID. Last month, TSA announced a change of policy: passenge...

Because I know that there are actually other people reading my blog who will find this amusing: “I’m starting to hate Copenhagen interpret...

So I thought I was so over lightsaber battles — cool, to be sure, but now it's been done to death — but Ryan vs Dorkman 2 demonstrate...

Clown punk bands Rock ’n’ roll belly dancers Gorgeous old flames cheerfully showing off how they're getting along great without me Brass...

Via Content Love

This story has it all. So last week the McCain campaign ran this ad: “Sure, Obama is a really popular candidate, but that doesn't m...

Via Patrick Nielsen Hayden, I learn that Clay Shirkey has a fascinating reflection. I was recently reminded of some reading I did in coll...

Wil Wheaton describes getting good direction from Rob Reiner on the set of Stand By Me , doing the scene I remember best. In that final sc...

In his post Pro Wrestling and the End of History, Paul A. Cantor makes some weirdly fascinating observations about the nature of villainy i...

Mark Morford gives good rant on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. At least 1,500 miles wide (give or take, could be much larger, no one's...

600 miles later, I'm in Oakland, safe and sound and fully detached from San Diego. I'll try to write up road tales tomorrow.

From Phyllis Rose's Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages : Marriages go bad not when love fades — love can modulate into affec...

Aeon, writing at RPG.net, brings up a puzzling point about wizards in swords & elves stories and games. He tends to be older, as ...

Magickian Donald Tyson tells us The Truth About the Necronomicon , the best book H. P. Lovecraft never wrote. Perceiving that so many...

I learn that there's this fruit that scrambles your taste receptors: The berry rewires the way the palate perceives sour flavors for a...

Tomorrow morning the movers come for my things. I'll tidy up my flat, then stay with friends in San Diego tomorrow night. Tuesday mornin...