Here's an interesting suggestion doing the rounds, for my American chums...

Join a General Strike on September 11, 2007It's something that might actually get noticed ( Read more... )

I just saw something on Suicide Girls that really disturbed me.

(Yes, I actually just go there for the articles. The women, for all their alleged alt. sexuality, are still too gorram skinny for me.)
(Even then it's usually just for Warren Ellis ranting, Wil Wheaton fanboying or the occasional wacky headline, such as the one about Vegansexuals. ( Read more... )

150 people arrested on the word of 'trained' 'body language' observers at US airports, according to the latest installment of security guru Bruce Schneier's long interview with Transportation Security Administration head Kip Hawley ( Read more... )

"US presidential candidate Barack Obama has said he would order military action against al-Qaeda in Pakistan without the consent of Pakistan's government."

Scalzi makes an interesting case on why impeachment won't work...

...and Brin offers an alternative ( Read more... )

Man gets a visit from the FBI for reading in a public place. No, really' They ask me if I was driving my car on Saturday, and I say, reasonably sure, that I was. They ask me where I went, and I struggle for a moment to remember Saturday. I make a lame joke about how the days run together when you're underemployed. They smile politely. Was I at work ( Read more... )

Some of you may remember this sad tale of a mother facing her son being taken away from her because of her religious beliefs... in the Church of the SubGenius.

In short, she lost. (Link goes to full story of the case ( Read more... )

Scalzi just drops the 100 ton Anvil of Truth on the Dicks for Jesus who disrupted the Hindu Prayer at Congress yesterday with cries of 'Abomination ( Read more... )

I got a gig tomorrow (one day, London) so I'll just leave you with this thought ( Read more... )

The Register brings us an interesting post about US military branching out into the realms of Hari Seldon's 'Psychohistory' Perhaps your real life is so rich you don't have time for another ( Read more... )