We transferred my grandmother yesterday from the Clinic to the Hospice House facility of the Hospice of the Western Reserve. It's a gorgeous space, right on the shore of Lake Erie, surrounded by spring blooms, and a wonderful program, with music therapy and art therapy and two 300-gallon fish tanks stocked with the best Lake Malawi has to offer. My ( Read more... )

Happy birthday to Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln ( Read more... )

At the end of her post on the new horror story from the war on terror, Unfogged's new blogger Alameida highlights the following assessment of guilt:"He was probably associated with people who were associated with al Qaeda," one U.S. government official said.
Guilt by association -- that works, right ( Read more... )

I have just had what may be the geekiest dream in history. I was reading Matthew Yglesias's new book (which I think had to do with how the Left throws better parties but the Right throws parties with maximized strategic value), and I was going through the endnotes. After a long section of citations from Star Trek: Voyager, I came across the story ( Read more... )

OK, so I keep reading the comments about President Bush deliberately putting his father and Bill Clinton in situations which in slashfic are cliched set-ups for confessions of love or rampant sex, and I'm trying to identify them all for my own satisfaction. The one I have so far:On Thursday night in Houston, Mr. Bush boarded an official blue-and- ( Read more... )

The reason I prefer Caribou Coffee over its dominant competitor, Starbucks, has nothing to do with politics and little to do with aesthetics (but who gives a fuck about a goddamn Grammy?), and much to do with the fact that Caribou will knock ten cents off of my order if I can correctly answer a trivia question. It's like appearing on a very tiny ( Read more... )

I learn from one of the new Agitators that Jon Ronson, author of the amusing romp with terrorists Them, has come out with a new book about bizarre US military projects.One operation details President Clinton's order for a Psychic Spying Unit to find the Loch Ness monster using telepathy. The operation cost 15 million pounds, which in today's ( Read more... )

Certainly, in these divisive times, there is one thing we can all agree on: the Nazis really hated Jews and gays. Right?

Uhhh . . . I met two members of Una-Unso, a neo-Nazi party whose emblem is a swastika. They were unembarrassed about their allegiance, perhaps because last year Yushchenko and his allies stood up for the Socialist party ( Read more... )

God put George W. Bush in the White House.

In Egypt he just killed all the first-born males. Why'd they get it so easy?

Speaking of divine punishment, Tom Toles reiterates a line of argument I've made my mother familiar with.

Justice League Unlimited just totally ripped off "Soul Purpose".

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Rick James has died at age 56 of natural causes. Though one would assume with Rick James that it wasn't so much natural causes as a long, polyrhythmic concatenation of extraordinary causes ( Read more... )