Homo Sum:
humani nil a me alienum puto

Okay, so we already know that the White House has now taken the unprecedented step of firing at least four and likely seven US Attorneys in the middle of their terms of office — at least some of whom are in the midst of corruption investigations of Bush administration officials and key Republican lawmakers. We [...]

If you’ve read either his debut novel Elantris, or his sophomore effort Mistborn, you will definitely be interested in Brandon Sanderson’s website, since it includes detailed annotations for both books, along with a blog and lots of other stuff including info and exceprts from forthcoming works.
Here’s a link to a recent essay on why [...]

I for one would pay tall dollars to watch a Rollins/Hannity debate.

It’s possible that some of you might have heard that Alan Moore (oft-mentioned here) wrote up a survey of 25000 years of porn for Arthur magazine’s winter 2006 issue. Clearly this is related to, and has grown out of, Moore’s research into the history of pornography as part of his work on Lost Girls. [...]

Every time I think that there’s no way I could despise Bush and his administration more, he finds a way.
“Do you believe as Commander in Chief you have the authority to put the troops in there no matter what the Congress wants to do,” 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley asks Bush in the short clip [...]

I’ve changed my mind, based on late-breaking news. This is now the QOTD for January 11th:
Various medical authorities swarm in and out of here predicting I have between two days and two months to live. I think they are guessing. I remain cheerful and unimpressed. I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread. I [...]

“Nothing like songs about obscure philosophical figures beating children to death sung in a falsetto.” — Dorian Wright, talking about this.

Still drowning in work, but here’s a few divertimenti for you:

Seeing one artist’s rendition of the Simpson’s cast in a more realistic, and heavily manga-influenced, style didn’t do much for me. I mean, I dig Marge’s hair, and the twins look great, but it’s not like the image is a revelation or anything. On the [...]

I admit it, I am too insanely busy at work to generate much useful content this week.
However, I do want to quickly share with you some simple facts, that might be helpful in settling a discussion that comes up time and time again.
In the wake of the post-holiday sales, I acquired the four volumes of [...]

The best editorial cartoons are the ones that take an entire position, argument, or notion and distill it down to a single image that captures the essence o the longer and more detailed version exactly.
Take this one, for example. I’d say that pretty much captures it.
That’s one of the selections at Time’s 2006 Cartoons of [...]

What you’re looking at there is the answer to the question “How did they survive on road trips in the days before MP3 players that could carry a ridiculous number of hours of music?” Of course, it’s only the answer for that small subset of “they” who couldn’t be satisfied with the radio, and needed [...]

I thought I’d start off this year with some omphaloskepsis and put up a quick list of some my favourite posts here from last year. These aren’t the best, or the most popular, just some that I particularly liked.
My favourite in January was probably Who We Just Made Our Prime Minister…, wherein I, with the [...]