Whenever I have a heading like this, it's inspired by my reading of the late, lamented Hellstorm comic back in the early or mid 90's. Long about issue #19, Warren Ellis told a little story on the letters page about how they used to say "great news, folks!" at the end of the letters pages on comics in the UK, the issue before cancellation. And that ( Read more... )

a.k.a. so much to post about, far too little time . . .

The Continuing Death of Journalism and Its Contribution to the Continuing Death of the World -- In the obviously huge news that I hope most of you have already heard, the effects of global warming on ice sheets continue to happen at a much faster rate than predicted. Like, the things we ( Read more... )