Brin on the possible memewar once the People of the Book have got all that macho shit out of their systems. Long, smart, worth considering ( Read more... )

Take it away, Keith ( Read more... )

Fred Clark provides a pithy look at 'democracy' today - derived from this article by Jonathan A. Becker, 'Putin and the Dawn of the New Authoritarians'. In it Becker provides a DSM-like check-list of traits of the modern authoritarian state, thus ( Read more... )

Feòrag at Pagan Prattle gives us our new word for the day: Christianophobia. Which was the subject of a full debate of the House of Commons today ( Read more... )

Anyone else think it highly unlikely that a rich businessman would spread baksheesh around the ruling party in a country without telling them where it came from so as to actually reap the benefit?

John Rogers is worth time for many things.

He wrote and produced Global Frequency, which is enough to make hin a demi-god.

He's really funny on a good day, of which he has many.

And today, he's explained the labyrinthine shenanagans involved in selling scripts for TV and movies in a way that is lucid, gives more than enough explanation of the ( Read more... )

' Bush told Pakistan's president on Wednesday that he must hold parliamentary elections and step down as army leader.

"You can't be the president and the head of the military at the same time," Bush said, describing a telephone call with Gen. Pervez Musharraf. "I had a very frank discussion with him ( Read more... )

Ten minutes. Pure focussed rage. Worth your time.

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Explained by Kos' So Dennis Kucinich offered a privileged resolution to impeach Dick Cheney. His motion entitled him to read his articles of impeachment into the record and on C-SPAN ( Read more... )

Spambot. ' The University of Alabama-Birmingham's computer forensics research department, which collects spam messages as part of its Spam Data Mining for Law Enforcement Applications project, analyzes hundreds of thousands of e-mail messages per month. When it began getting bombarded with e-mails about Ron Paul immediately following a Republican ( Read more... )