Archive for November, 2008

Book Review: The Age of American Unreason

True! American intellectual culture is even more depleted than the elusive, Iraqi uranium stockpiles that apparently have been depleted into non-existence. Susan Jacoby makes that point come across clearly and quite eloquently. Filled with interesting details and plenty of harsh criticism, Jacoby has written an interesting tome on, among other things, why Americans are so obsessed with folksy people (George W. Bush, anyone?), and why so many Americans fear “intellectual elitists” (Obama, anyone?). Continue reading this post»

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It took around 377 years for the Vatican to apologize to Galileo, but it only took 42 years for them to ‘forgive’ John Lennon for his “bigger than Jesus” remark.

This board game seems to fit right in with my aspirations to become God Emperor of the Known Universe. I guess you have to smite lots of people. Awesome!

How 85-million-year old soil deposits created a sliver of blue counties in the conservative Deep South of the USA. Interesting.

The Graveyard Book

Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book

Wherever I move, Christian censorship seems to surround me. Why stop the signing and sale of a poetry collection? Christians still have the freedom to spew their insane, intolerant, bigoted speech, right? They even do this little Jesus D&D play on Queen Street! Now let us normal people have our freedom of speech too!

Funny, DNA replication makes a karaoke Backstreet Boys song sound so much better.

Live at Triple Door

for Greg Dulli’s album Live at Triple Door (Amazon & iTunes)

Count Mothula, a real blood-guzzling moth! Calyptra thalictri scores another point for evolution!