By the All-Father, and the Odinpower, and all the treasures of Asgard, GO SEE THOR RIGHT NOW.

So good.

http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2177#comic

So, this is interesting.So, even Goldman-Sachs, the personification of the kind of big money the Republicans worship, says that the GOP spending cuts are a dumbass idea. So what's the motivation here ( Read more... )

An interesting discussion of the fusion of American Exceptionalism and fundamentalist historical revisionism.Very well written, and with multiple quotes from Tea-Party favorite Jim DeMint. It's really interesting to think back to the 80s and 90s and remember how much good will America had with our European allies, and then look at now and realize ( Read more... )

http://www.alternet.org/teaparty/149470/let%27s_get_this_straight%3A_there_is_no_progressive_equivalent_to_the_right%27s_violent_rhetoric/?page=1Read more... )

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So, I'm not super-thrilled about the language or writing on this article - while I'm strongly for abortion and birth control, I feel that the article intentionally reduces debate on it to a pro-choice buzz phrase - but man, just taking the list of crazy-ass things that various elected politicians have said/believe/enacted into law is scary ( Read more... )

So, someone has a site with a shareware roleplaying system devoted to Victorian and Edwardian science romances, with some early science fiction on the side. And, oh yeah, they can include the stories in with the games, because they're largely out of copyright.

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So, apparently one of the acts that the GOP was holding hostage until they got their precious tax cuts was actually a bill to rationalize spending and improve services for 9/11 first responders.

Jon Stewart Coverage, With Kicky Montage at the End.

Delightful. And by delightful, I mean horrifying and sickening.

So, Steam. Leaving aside the issue that you, of all programs I have, can't figure out how to circumnavigate the firewall at school, what the LIVING, BREATHING CRAP is up with this ( Read more... )