You've probably heard of Ayn Rand. Most people have these days. She was the author of such inexplicably widely-read "novels" (really, barely-disguised political diatribes) as "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged". Her books are currently enjoying something of a boom among those who misguidedly believe they would be in the self-righteous community ( Read more... )

Ann Coulter once said that liberals "take a perverse joy in lying", that liberals actively enjoy telling untruths. She was, of course, wrong about liberals (as she would have difficulty even understanding a thought process so different to her own) but I am increasingly of the opinion that her remarks were correct if applied to conservatives ( ( Read more... )

So, I have this other blog ( http://ebonscave.blogspot.com ) and it's set up to email me when I get a comment. Mainly, I do this for spam-filtering services. You know the kind of thing; fake rolexes, boner pills, that kind of stuff. This morning, I'm sat here reading news and just pondering the idea of hitting the hay when an email drops into my ( Read more... )

So it seems pretty obvious that Marvel's "Norman Osborn runs the world" meta-arc will be coming to a close after Siege. It's been an interesting ride and one I actually havn't minded too much because it's actually meant something, shaken up and changed the status quo of company's world. But, since it's ending, here are my proposals for what should ( Read more... )

The ramifications of yesterday's Citizen's United decision are difficult to comprehend. In one fell swoop, in a decision which relied on no precedent or legal rule, the Supreme Court of Justice Roberts destroyed any and all limits on corporate financing of campaigns. No, it's too big. Let's walk back a little and take a brief look at how we got ( Read more... )

The majority of this article was written way back when same-sex marriage was initially legalised in California. With the current court battle over the constitutionality of the ban on same-sex marriage and the anti-marriage side's odd decision to drag homosexuality itself into the dock, it seemed like a good time to revise and reprint this article.

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A man sits alone in a room....

Some of the best horror stories ever start that way. For Tom Jansen though, this is a personal horror story, his horror story. It's the story of a brilliant young mind who went snooping in places he shouldn't. It's the story of the man who got a harsh judge and a cellmate called Bubba who sings showtunes and picks his ( Read more... )

Back when the Democratic primary was in full flame, I supported Dennis Kucinich. Kooch (as he is affectionatly known in some areas of the webway) is considered a kook-end radical leftie in the States, someone one step away from Mao but I'm English and, odd personal habits aside, he'd be a perfectly respectable LibDem here. But the American ( Read more... )

Bret "Hitman" Hart has signed with WWE for the new year thru WrestleMania corridor. While he'll guest host teh first edition of RAW to go opposite TNA Impact and it would be absurd if he didn't have some interaction with teh Hart Dynasty, 'Mania is also supposed to be Shawn Michaels's last match ( Read more... )

There are things to celebrate in this healthcare bill. Not many but there's a couple. The major one's are a ban on pre-existing conditions and recission. The pre-existing conditions thing has been an immoral, lunatic clause for years. Quite apart from anything else, it made people with lifelong conditions (diabetes, for example) either impossible ( Read more... )