I found this one-panel webcomic, better-drawn than I could accomplish, that sorta just says it all.
I found this one-panel webcomic, better-drawn than I could accomplish, that sorta just says it all.
I came across this comment over at TierneyLab, the blog of New York Times libertarian science columnist John Tierney. In our modern world, computer program algorithms coordinate commercial aircraft traffic across entire continents, optimize investment strategies for billion dollar wall street portfolios and define national political poling [sic] strategies. However, it now appears that brilliant […]
Via Blackfive comes this disturbing story of the court martial of retired Green Beret Smokey Taylor, 80. Retired Army Green Beret Smokey Taylor got his court martial this weekend and came away feeling good about it. Taylor, at age 80 the oldest member of Chapter XXXIII of the Special Forces Association, was on trial by […]
Curiously, I hadn't gotten this e-mail that's been making the rounds. Commonsense & Wonder did, and I reprint it here: We all have our disagreements with President Bush. Immigration, U.S. Attorney firings, Iraq , Darfur , etc., are all hot topics these days. The following “speech” was written recently by an ordinary Maineiac [a resident […]
This might've been entertaining to see. Point Break LIVE!, the absurdist stage adaptation of the 1992 Keanu Reeves/Patrick Swayze extreme-sports blockbuster, tells the story of former college football star Johnny Utah (Reeves in the film), as he pursues the surfing, bankrobbing, skydiving, bare-hand-fighting, adrenaline junkie cum Zen Master, Bodhi Sattva. The Brechtian blockbuster, which garnered […]
It's amazing what you can do with some creative editing.
Peter Hartlaub, the editor of The Mustang Daily when I was doing my two quarters as a reporter on the paper, has a great column in today's San Francisco Chronicle on the dwindling right to set off small explosives to celebrate the 4th of July. This country was founded on blowing stuff up, and 231 […]
May's Esquire magazine has a great article by A.J. Jacobs on his efforts to find via the Internet a good man for his shy, beautiful, 27-year-old nanny. I particularly liked this bit: Originally, I planned to send a personal ding letter to each of the unsuitable guys. But the volume is overwhelming. By day four, […]
Lewis Black's comedy can be R-rated at times. But he's generally PG-13 when appearing on Comedy Central. This clip had me practically rolling on the floor when I first saw it. I loved the Matt Damon clip. Matt Damon: If your house is anything like mine... Lewis Black: Stop. It's not. It's a lot smaller. […]
I don't feel a lot of schadenfraude at learning this news: The French dislike themselves even more than the Americans dislike them, according to an opinion poll published on Friday. The survey of six nations, carried out for the International Herald Tribune daily and France 24 TV station, said 44 percent of French people thought […]