The good news is, more Readers had an opinion on this question than indicated that they lacked enough knowledge to decide who the coolest Watchman is. The bad news is, a plurality of you haven’t read or heard of Watchmen.… Continue Reading
A San Diego woman is auctioning off her virginity as part of a project for her Masters’ thesis in women’s studies. No, I can’t complete that sentence without closing my eyes and shaking my head in irony-free disbelief. Nor can… Continue Reading
A brand-new global news organization? I thought that the days of big news were numbered. Big newspapers like the Fish Wrapper (aka the Chicago Tribune West), the WaPo, the Miami Herald, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and even the UK’s Guardian and… Continue Reading
A special holiday present for The Wife was cake decorating lesssons. A downside to that is that efforts to lose weight are hampered by the fact that now she’s baking cakes all the time. She made a white cake with… Continue Reading
Bet you couldn’t have seen this coming. Chrysler wants another three trillion of your dollars, because the first four trlllion just weren’t enough. I mean, what a surprise. Quoth P.J. O’Rourke: Bringing the government in to run Wall Street is… Continue Reading
Internet reporting, like TV news reporting, is all about attracting eyeballs. So Pajamas Media decided to try a stunt to do that — it hired purportedly average-guy Samuel J. Wurzelbacher, AKA “Joe the Plumber,” to be a war correspondent. They… Continue Reading
Film School Rejects identifies 25 movies to look forward to this year. A sample of the fun: The movie is called Ninja Assassin, do I even have to say why we’re excited about this film? Hell, the film’s star is… Continue Reading
You thought it was in November. But today, the 111th Congress held a joint session in which the votes of the Electoral College were counted. Guess what. Barack Obama got 365 votes and John McCain got 173 (Vice President Cheney… Continue Reading
It’s my considered opinion that people remember things that generate intense emotions; things that generate only mild emotions tend to slip away into the fog of one’s generalized recollection of the past. Examples: I can remember, with great clarity, how… Continue Reading
This early novel by Neal Stephenson is ambitious in its scope and several times had me cursing him under my breath for anticipating some ideas I’ve been playing with in my free time. It is confusing, immersing, and thought-provoking, but… Continue Reading