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Today I tweeted Jason Segedy's manifesto The Rising Tide , which calls for Generation X to step up as we enter our middle years and r...

Yesterday I tweeted a link to a post on Bill Murray Stories. I said: Bill Murray: the only person in the world who is truly free ...

F*%&ing Nolan. Interstellar stinks. It stinks as only something created by an army of capable people can stink. It is not a no...

Stanislav, eccentric operating system designer of Loper OS, points out the obvious about Apple's unique position in the tech industr...

Some friends have asked how I'm voting in the California election on Tuesday, since there are a number of tricky ballot initiatives. ...

For now, this is a short list, but I'm putting up this post as a place to keep short reviews of surprisingly-good obscure films avail...

A friend who is a nurse just told me this little story: Medical Records of a hospital in another city We require a signed form to r...

We are the music-makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams. You can get that image as a t-shirt. It seems that most people know that...

A tweet from Andy Baio informs me that the visual interface style for Yosemite has taken a interesting turn. In his tweet, Baio c...

Samuel R. Delaney reflects on a discussion of Transgressive Sexual Practice he participated in. (There's video !) W HY IT'S HA...

Chainsawsuit explains terrorism in six cartoon panels: (FYI, I also have my own explanation. )

There’s this poem you have probably seen or heard before. It is the Soldier, not the minister Who has given us freedom of religion....

Jenny Trout is conducting a Big Damn Buffy Rewatch . She has some provocative observations: Sex is the real villain of the Buffy The ...

Andrew Sullivan is a lively writer, and occasionally people pass along him saying things I agree with and saying them well. I’m not above...

Chris Reimer asks: What needs to functionally improve here at Ello to make it a player? I reply: Long text posts should be more...

Wise words from Nathan Jurgenson about some social software entrepreneurs. The people who have decided they should mediate our social...

Urban planning is a sufficiently dry and obscure topic that you wouldn't think that it would be the subject of pop music. But you...

David Roberts at Grist points to how movement conservative attacks on “elites” are an attack on the fundamental institutions of liberal ...

There's a canard I've seen come up disconcertingly often from a certain kind of conservative who will mount a defense of the ante...

This keeps coming up. So a quick word about The Patriarchy. This feminist term of art conjures an image of a vast conspiracy, with roo...

A while back I found out about a school of sharp satire: pairing “motivational” quotes — often about “fitness” — with images to suggest ...

Conservative commentator Jonah Goldberg of the National Review is a notorious numbskull, but he has a blind squirrel tendency to occasio...