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Re: The Tea Party is Only as ‘Dead’ as Conservatism
02/08/12 11:14 am
The essence of culture war is a marching-backwards. Glenn Beck made "Leave it to Beaver" noises because his target audience is cognitively s...Re: Morning Awful: Catholic Birth Control Contention
02/08/12 10:51 am
Notice how a lot of so-called liberal Catholic MEN, like E J Dionne and Chris Matthews, are making this all about religious freedom. Bullpuc...Re: The Tea Party is Only as ‘Dead’ as Conservatism
02/08/12 10:46 am
I was six years old and in parochial school when John Kennedy ran for President. I remember my parents and family being pleased when he won,...Re: Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc “Cancer” in Occupy (but not in Anonymous)
02/08/12 2:15 am
You've seen them before at the 2009 G-20 meeting and the Battle of Seattle in 1999.Re: Morning Awful: Regressive South Carolina
02/07/12 3:17 pm
It takes an advanced degree in cognitive dissonance to deny these laws have any object other than making it harder for minorities & the ...Re: Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc “Cancer” in Occupy (but not in Anonymous)
02/07/12 7:07 am
I checked out on OWS months ago so I never heard of Black Bloc. Wow. Good to know.Re: Most Precise Bombing Campaign Ever
02/06/12 8:43 am
Applause for a simply-stated version of my own mind.Re: Most Precise Bombing Campaign Ever
02/06/12 8:41 am
2 is a higher number than my preferred number of "zero," and it's still lower than 30. I think you can summarize a lot of the Obama Era in t...Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/06/12 6:47 am
Who has the irrational hatred of POTUS ? Greenwald or Paul ? Which POTUS ? Bush? Obama ? Lincoln ? Madison ? Any ideas about why ? rather...Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/05/12 1:30 am
Good post! I've stopped by a few times, but never commented. I think the key phrase in assessing Greenwald is "overcompensates" and he does...Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/03/12 2:24 pm
I dislike the term "emoprog." It confuses musical politics with movement politics.Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/03/12 1:19 pm
For the same reason Ron Paul approved those newsletters.Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/03/12 1:18 pm
And vote. No vote, no voice and no right to criticize the government, because the sorry a-holes who don't vote enable whichever government t...
Category Archives: SciFi
The Death Maiden
Sundari had a mental habit of ignoring entire worlds while pondering the more arcane facts of their biology, so she did not hear the song until her hair was washed. She was wrapping it in a towel and walking barefoot … Continue reading
Are We Alone In The Universe? “Highly Unlikely”
It seems the universe may be full of earths. NewsHour’s Miles O’Brien: And that is such a significant moment, because, when you consider Kepler was looking at a little piece of our sky, one-four-hundredth of the nighttime sky, and in … Continue reading
Predatory Previews
The new Predators movie is much more like the 1990s comic book series than the cinematic craptaculars that have assaulted the moviegoing public since Predator II. This flick has had positive reviews and the preview actually makes me want to … Continue reading
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
