A couple weeks ago, I read this column by Neal Gabler at the Boston Globe. It brought to mind two deep and ultimately conflicting ideas that I believe are equally true. The first is that people are pretty much the… Continue Reading
We begin with a lamb jumping on a bed. Very cute, but it comes to a strange ending. Then, I found a delightful children’s book about interspecies telepathy, and the inevitable conquest of our planet by alien retroviruses. It’s fun… Continue Reading
For your bemusement on a Saturday, and because you’re probably tired by now of Meghan McCain’s breasts and wondering whether the saga of Balloon Boy was a hoax, I offer a smörgåsbord of internet-based bizarreness: Lady Gaga is really the… Continue Reading
You would think that after all this time on the Internets, I wouldn’t succumb to the temptation to engage Christian apologetics. But sometimes I can’t help myself. And so I found myself stumbling across a guy who claims that there… Continue Reading
Why has America fallen into such desperate and horrible straits? Oh, yeah, that’s right, it’s the atheists’ fault. Or, as Doug Mataconis puts it, “Yea, it has nothing to do with all those religious people who’ve, you know, actually been… Continue Reading
Seriously — the Emperor Nero had a revolving dining room with retractable panels in the ceiling, so his guests could enjoy the complete cycle of a day while having dinner with their imperator. Well, for a few months anyway, before… Continue Reading
For some reason, the arrest and attempted extradition of Roman Polanski seems to be capturing everyone’s attention. I guess when you’re rich and famous, your doings are important to everyone. If Roman Polanski were not rich and famous, we wouldn’t… Continue Reading
During that phase of history referred to as the Roman Revolution, the general and triumvir Marcus Licinius Crassus led an army to the east from Rome to fight the empire of Parthia (roughly modern Iran). He got his ass kicked… Continue Reading
Proposed: “While federalism was a useful concept in the early development of the United States, as a nation and as a people, we have outgrown it. We would be better off with a standardized, uniform set of comprehensive laws for… Continue Reading