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Re: Honey, I Found the Voter Registration Fraud
05/22/12 6:02 am
Question: Does the GOP at any level do anything like a basic background check? It'd make elections a lot less embarassing.Re: Morning Awful: Libertarians
05/18/12 12:42 pm
Quoth Cerberus at Sadly, No!: You know, I want a magic button that deprives people who say they are self-made and didn’t rely on no gover...Re: Morning Awful: Libertarians
05/18/12 5:11 am
:: facepalm :: Libertarians remind me of starry-eyed 19 year-old college students who have lots of lofty ideas that would never work in ...05/17/12 6:40 am
Conrad Black did it to get a fancy title and thought he wouldn't get caught.Re: Wingnut Wind Power Wankery is Not About Free Markets
05/14/12 4:48 pm
You can add this to the list of idiocies. –alopeciaRe: Morning Awful: Closet Romney
05/13/12 9:58 am
As Bill Maher said in his monologue on Friday (one of the more prescient comments), in most salons, the guy wielding the scissors is the ga...Re: The Democratic Party Marijuana Evolution
05/11/12 3:48 pm
Buy stocks in marijuana too. It goes to a good cause and you make some money on the side. If marijuana is so bad, why is it that there are ...05/09/12 2:47 pm
I swear, I wrote this last night, and I had no idea what was coming today.Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 10:37 am
My thoughts on this are going up in a comic later tonight. Good news is, it appears the President listened to them before they even got ...Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 6:03 am
I was so disappointed when I heard the news about North Carolina this morning. There's still a lot of work to do.Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 2:26 am
Thank you. I could not have said this better. The more they bemoan and bully the President for a response, the more divided the Democrats l...05/08/12 12:39 pm
This makes perfect sense. My problem is that I have come to dislike organized religion so much, feel so cynical about it, I don't know...Re: #StopRush, ALEC, and the Howard Stern Category
05/08/12 11:59 am
Like “class warfare,” it is only wrong when we fight back. Sounds an awful lot like every bully, everywhere, doesn't it? –alopeciaRe: Morning Awful: Mitt Romney is Weak
05/08/12 6:46 am
Rachel Maddow is rooting for Ron Paul...and thinks the current president has too much power - like there ARE two other branches of governme...
Category Archives: Science Fiction
Warhammer 40K On YouTube
Games Workshop has the right idea. Video game crossover is a great idea for a tabletop game this cool. So is YouTube marketing: They do a lot of their marketing through YouTube: The milieu comes complete with pulp fiction populating … Continue reading
The Singularity Will Cause Cancer
By Captain Coolaid Technology exceeded our ability to adapt to it shortly after the industrial revolution. The Singularity is about technology advancing beyond our ability to even imagine the future. If you need to know more about it then check … Continue reading
Star Trek V Director’s Cut?
No, I am not making that up: Star Trek V The Final Frontier remains to many Trek fans the movie franchise’s ‘disappointing failure’. But as originnally (sic) imagined and filmed by director William Shatner, The Final Frontier was to be … Continue reading
Dear David Weber
Sir, Thanks for keeping me entertained during the sheer boredom of a tank table. My copy of Honor of the Queen still smells like Kuwait. I am pleased with the first two chapters of your next book, Mission of Honor, … Continue reading
A Sequel That Won’t Kill Childhoods?
TRON may be the rarest of sequels: one honoring both the audience’s childhood and the gap of actual time. (Or maybe Disney’s found a way to screw up that they’re not showing me in the preview; the latter has proven … Continue reading
Uncanny Aliens
I’ve long held that intelligent alien life would probably resemble us pretty closely. The laws of physics being the same everywhere, some forms of life are just too limited: fish-people would be unable to use fire and discover chemistry, for … Continue reading
Will Google Books Kill The Novelist?
I sincerely doubt it. Writers who wish their work to live in perpetual print, but only if it comes through approved agencies and paid royalties — all long after they have died — annoy the ever-living crap out of me. … Continue reading
Virtual Reality Living
It’s time for a bloody magazine; my bookmarks folder with the above title is bulging onscreen and begging for subcategorization. In case you have not heard, virtual reality can kill. From Australia, we learn that a middle-aged man with high … Continue reading
Print Is Dead: Electronic Ink Edition
This is why I follow William Gibson on Twitter: Speculative fiction writers have come up with innumerable ways to deal with the issue of paper in their novels. The golden era of Bradbury and Asimov maintained paper in their universes; … Continue reading
Cyborg Insects
Yes, you read correctly. Cyborg insects: For the first time, researchers have controlled the movements of free-flying insects from afar, as if they were tiny remote-controlled aircraft. By connecting electrodes and radio antennas to the nervous systems of beetles, the … Continue reading
Ender’s Game
All that sleep you’re supposed to get? It’s how your brain improves performance: “It really looks like if you’re not dreaming about it, you’re not getting better,” says Robert Stickgold of Harvard Medical School, who carried out one of the … Continue reading
