Welcome to the World of Tomorrow!

Will Life Be Worth Living in the Year 2000? asks this article from 1961, making predictions about the nightmarish Jetsons-style utopia that awaited all of us unborns in the new millenium.  
The broad strokes of how computers provide instantaneous convenience are all there, so 5 points for that.  But mostly this guy is on too [...]

Overt Operations

Yes, that is a paper mache penis helicopter disrupting a Russian meeting, apparently being held by Gary Kasparov. Wait, what?
Kasparov, former Chess grandmaster, is a pro-democracy reformist and a very outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin, who just relinquished the Presidency to his successor/crony Dmitri Medvedev, who immediately appointed Putin to the office of Prime Minister, [...]

Scott Pilgrim Gets Film Together

The Scott Pilgrim series from Oni Press is a recent discovery and brand new favorite of mine, and it’s the best comic-being-adapted-into-a-movie-by-Edgar-”Shaun of the Dead”-Wright-and-starring-Michael-Cera  that you haven’t read. Anyway, today comes word that the filmmakers are casting Mary Elizabeth Winstead (she was in Grindhouse) as Ramona Flowers, female lead and mysterious ninja delivery girl.
Visual [...]

Which Witch Doctors?

An interesting article you may have seen on Digg yesterday about the history of institutionalized medicine and how it relates to the marginalization of marijuana and herbal remedies in general. I’m relatively confident that, barring the apocalypse, we will get around to legalizing weed in our lifetime.  For example, I have every intention of [...]

More Network

You know what, while I’m geeking out about Network I’m gonna go ahead and post the other most-famous scene from that movie, the “Mad as Hell” speech:

Sigh Ops

More news from the ‘Surprising No One’ file:
As you may know by now, the Pentagon used supposedly independent military analysts from CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News to disseminate propaganda to the American people for several years after 9/11.  If you don’t know this, it’s probably because you get your news from cable television, which has [...]

Bitches and Homos

To the surprise of no one, it turns out there are gay people in the rap industry, even though there are lots of homophobic lyrics in the rap industry.  Some dude wrote a book about being gay in hip-hop and makes pseudonymous reference to all sorts of probably famous people who secretly bone thugs [...]

Poison Dust!

According to this here article, it turns out that when your TV is on, the heat evaporates chemical flame retardants used in all the wiring and emits them as a gas, which is then absorbed by the household dust that coats your favorite mind-numbing appliance.  Some guy in the article is concerned that this could [...]

Know Thyself

During John McCain’s appearance on the Daily Show the other night, which you can watch here, he said he wanted Dwight Schrute to be his VP. Which I guess makes Mac the Michael Scott of this election?
McCain actually has a lot in common with Dwight, which is naturally terrifying in a presidential candidate. But if [...]

Three for Three

So, not exactly what I predicted last night, but today rumors are circulating that Ryan Seacrest is in fact going to be joining the CNN political team as Larry King’s replacement, possibly as soon as the end of the year.
Damn I’m good.