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... )

According to Arthur magazine, there is now a soft drink available called " Brawndo".

Why is this odd? Well, because it comes from a movie called 'Idiocracy' - a dumb and pointless retelling of The Marching Morons for, well, morons. In the film, everyone in the future has become so stupid that they use this soft drink as a replacement for water in ( Read more... )

Yeah, I'm up early and thus not at my mental best, but I have to say I'm confused. By Americans.

Words really do mean different things when you take them across the pond.

I was reading a piece on Feministing (hey, I'm a semi-evolved male) and both it and the article which prompted it had me very confused - until I realised that there's a word ( Read more... )

From John Shirley's Signs of Witness' Israel has tightened security at its airports, seaports and border crossings-increasing both technological surveillance as well as information gathering efforts -in order to thwart attempts at smuggling radioactive materials into the country. These materials could potentially be used in the production of a “ ( Read more... )

From Ellis:

' AMERICA has told Britain that it can “kidnap” British citizens if they are wanted for crimes in the United StatesA senior lawyer for the American government has told the Court of Appeal in London that kidnapping foreign citizens is permissible under American law because the US Supreme Court has sanctioned it ( 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... )

The always-challenging Rigorous Intuition has a gem this week:

Symptomatic of Capgras Syndrome is the delusion of doubles: that those closest to you, or your familiar objects, have been replaced by impostors and replicas. Tony Rosato, a Toronto comic actor who put in time on SCTV and Saturday Night Live, served two years in prison for criminally ( Read more... )

This long piece by Chris Floyd is the most bitter and pessimistic look at BushCo (and the spectacular failure of the Democrats to restrict them) I've yet seen ( Read more... )

<pope_guilty legless123 in dark_christian recommended this stunning diatribe by Charles P Pierce. It begins with a nice dig at Creationism Intelligent Design modern Xtian perspectives on life ( Read more... )