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In case you need it, Avicenna at A Million Gods has a good review of why the repugnant Theadore “Vox Day” Beale is repugnant.

In the course of a critique of Ron Paul , David Atkins at Hullaballoo says some incisive things about the fundamental differences betwee...

A Facebook friend asks, in a discussion of Cliven Bundy: Occupy San Francisco was permitted to illegally occupy Justin Herman Plaza f...

Today the news is Adam Nogourney's New York Times article A Defiant Rancher Savors the Audience That Rallied to His Side about Cliv...

photo of MUNI bus vs Google bus by defabulous There’s a lot of talk out there about the changes that the city of San Francisco ...

Dear Washington NFL Team: I'm not a football fan, but I've been talking with friends about you lately. I'm afraid we...

Note the date on this. When I wrote it, I thought I was late to say the obvious! One cannot help but notice that the mediasphere has...

At this moment, one of the communities in which I have an investment is going through a wrenching conversation on the internet about some...

One of my favorite paragraphs ever. From A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century....

Ellen Willis on how free speech can be rough on the oppressed, but also liberating. Symbolic expression, however forceful, leaves a sp...

I have been joking that Darren Aronofsky's forthcoming film Noah is a film for which I may be the only audience. I'm ethnically ...

They are a democratically unaccountable sect of warrior monks who use mind control ... kidnap children to be trained as janissaries ... ...

For future reference: that comic strip explaining the spurious origins of the “research” supposedly demonstrating that the measles vacci...

Tweets from < @dys_morphia > last night: Saw “Talkies” at the basement of Lost Weekend Video tonight, a mix of stand up and sk...

Written for a colleague sweating work left undone. The scope of the project is never more than what you can do in the time available. ...

Arthur Chu, the guy who got flak on the internet for being too good at the TV game show Jeopardy! , has some astute words about the logi...

Big caveat — just a few years after I originally posted this essay, dramatic shifts in the structure of the political right in the US l...