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As on Election Day, Bush Street in San Francisco was transformed into Obama Street. obama & fillmore, san francisco Originally uploa...

I saw this today while running out for lunch downtown. It looks like nobody was hurt, but still ... important safety tip: do not cut in ...

I respect people who love Charlie Brown, the muppets, and even those goofy Rankin-Bass cartoons, but my all-time favourite is undoubtedly Th...

Take a moment and reflect on the url english.pravda.ru : what should be there? what do you expect to find there? Then go see. It's pe...

Bettie Page Pin-up model 1923-2008 You may not recognize her name, but you surely recognize her. The only woman's image whom you cou...

I just found out that today is the 60 th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. On December 10, 1948 the General Assem...

This story contains about a hundred layers of heartbreak. There's growing support among many Nebraska lawmakers to limit the safe hav...

As a teenager, I'd watch Doctor Who on Sunday afternoons on PBS. (Pertwee, Baker, and Davison, for those who care enough to recogniz...

Oliver Schwaner-Albright writing for The New York Times identifies eight hot new bartending philosophies: Pre-repeal revivalists Neo-clas...

Much as I hesitate to assert that my inclination to admire the beauty of women reflects some deep commitment to Truth, Spiritual Enlight...

Today Neil Gaiman got an anguished letter from a fan named Jess about his support for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. The question, for ...

You may recall me blogging Anonymous' spooky anti-Scientology videos. In the months since then, they've succeeded in organizing sev...

Just for fun, I have a little video of Leonard Nimoy explaining the secret origin of that cool hand thing that Vulcans do as a salute, prov...

Friends, family, health, livelihood, city, and nation. How could I possibly be more blessed?

I remember saying that health care policy was the one thing in Hillary Clinton's platform that was categorically better than Barack Obam...

TheHill.com has a little article about a church inviting the Obamas to attend their services. Something jumped out at me, reading it. Thou...

Wikipedia offers me new punctuation: the irony mark. This mark was proposed by the French poet Alcanter de Brahm (alias Marcel Bernhardt...

... otherwise Christa Faust might have succeeded in making me miss Los Angeles for a minute. When I first moved to Los Angeles, I saw a ha...

  I am reminded by several folks that today is the 10 th annual Transgender Day of Remembrance, which marks deaths by trans-hate-motivate...

I stumbled across this tale of an email list in '93. By failing to handle a prolific and obsessive individual, the list community broke...

You may have heard of the Hipster PDA: a stack of 3x5 cards held together with a binder clip. This thing is, seriously, pretty much a movem...

Remember this from 2004? Now this year: I offer links back to reflections from 2004 by me and by Digby.

In case I haven't already mentioned this to any interested readers, the place where I work, Pure Digital Technologies (makers of the spi...

For most of 1985, my favourite song was Del Shannon's 1961 hit “Runaway”. So for over twenty years I've been puzzling over the q...

Brad Hicks on the institutional / social / psychological dynamics in financial institutions that led to the mortgage crisis ... and other p...

In a Salon interview, Bernard-Henri Lévy defines “the left.” I think it is the same definition: to have freedom and equality, the two...

In the course of a rumination on Missouri's voting in the presidential election, Brad Hicks talks about St Louis' unique, disengage...

Pericles observes that McCain's reflexive Republican “small government conservatism” was a perfect example of this non-philosophy. The...