The Next Episode

Where the hell have I been?  Blogger drops off for a couple of weeks and the Middle East erupts in violence.  Just so we’re clear, by the way, this is one of those tests Joe “This Ain’t No Gaffe” Biden was talking about back in October. Via Yglesias, Steve Clemons diagnoses the ins and outs [...]

Things To Do in Transit

Took some pictures from the airplane because everything looks cool from the inside of a giant jet-powered metal bird flying two miles above the surface of the earth.

All in the Game Yo

Holy shit is the Governor of Illinois corrupt.  We are talking utterly and transparently, straight-up offering to sell Obama’s vacant Senate seat, corrupt (lest you think this reflects badly on Barry, rest assured that Governor Blagojevich thinks Prezbama is a ‘motherfucker‘ for declining the Gov’s offer to be bribed).
Really the part I find most interesting [...]

Good Shows You Might Never Watch

Found out today that ABC is developing a pilot to adapt Vertigo comics’ series ‘Fables.’  ‘Fables’ is about fairy tale and folklore characters living secretly in New York City after being banished from their homelands. The book has a great balance of adventure/noir/intrigue and an irreverent sense of humor about the supernatural concept that reminds [...]

Things That Make Me Miss New York

An online photo gallery of every street corner in Manhattan.

Breaking News: Humanity Emasculated

If you ever needed a reason to become a radical environmentalist, Science officially announced today that chemical pollution is mutating all vertebrate males into girls. And that’s just the tip of the… iceberg.
Okay so this article is pretty much the most horrifying thing I have ever read. There are poorly regulated chemicals [...]

Life Lessons

Last year, Bernama reported that Malaysia’s information minister, Datuk Seri Zainuddin Maidin, had issued a public put-down of karaoke singers by likening them to another group of social misfits: bloggers. Both groups, Mr. Zainuddin said, “take pleasure in their own singing but have no influence.”
From an article about MURDER.

808s and Tom Waits

I have yet to hear 808s and Heartbreak in its entirety or proper order, but I for one don’t mind all of the vocoding.  Kanye isn’t trying to duel Andrea Bocelli or anything, look at his sunglasses! He’s releasing pop music, in this case about feeling cold and dead inside. The electric affect of autotuning [...]

Hangin’ with Mr. Hitchens

Okay, maybe one more political post.  This clip of ole Hitch (that’s Christopher Hitchens to the less nerdy) is making the rounds of some blogs ‘n stuff:

Two things.
1) Hitch is wrong. Obama can trust Hillary, because frankly I think she likes Obama more than her husband.  Over the years, Big Willy [...]

Chronicles of Badassery

–So Cracked threw up a list of 7 people who were nigh-on-impossible to kill. Rasputin is obviously #1, and you know that story already, but did you know that Trotsky wrestled his assassin to the ground AFTER being axed in the back of the skull?  For other crazy shit like that, check out the full [...]