O.J. Simpson, You Have the Brain-Wave Activity of a Cyprus Stump, written 1 month ago,

Documents the travels and musings of two young college graduates concerned with the inflexibility of the American work culture. Instead of getting real jobs, they started a non-profit that documents young professionals' perspectives

Romance and Euphemisms, written 3 days ago, A number of days ago, someone posted a comment which was sent to the blog’s moderation queue because it contained a link to a remote site. As a rule, after I review those types of comments, I generally remove the link and leave the body of the comment in...

R.A.W. and Mencken on Economics, etc., written 3 days ago, I just want to bring a couple of very interesting essays to your attention, both of which serve as useful correctives to the recent news coverage of the ‘financial crisis’. The first is by one of my favourite people, the late Robert Anto...

Insolent Carnival Of the Skeptics, written 2 days ago,

Smash Monogamy, written 2 days ago, Wow and wow. I've gotten up to the chapter in Liberal Fascism that discusses the links between Alinsky, Hillary Clinton and Michael Lerner. In my half-assed and lazy way I'm not particularly interested in making an extended rant against my presumed enemies i...

Atlanta: the good, the bad, the ugly, written 2 days ago, So it’s been an intense week of blogging and writing, two posts I’m proud of and an op-ed I’m even more pleased with. Good times! On the lighter side, I’m just finishing up two days in Atlanta that started badly but have become really...

Sarah Palin Goes All David Lynch On Us, written 1 day ago, Always willing to beat a dead horse (or, I guess in this case, dead turkey), I decided to re-post a video of an interview with Alaska Governor Sarah Palin here that I saw on another blog. One of the commenters of the original video posting o...

Serves the purpose of monitoring current events to determine if our world is becoming more like the world described in the novel 1984. Thought Criminal is an expose into government corruption, political shell games, invasion of privacy and the new world o

Civilianism #76 / Veterans, War is Poison, written 1 week ago, Congrats to our new President-elect Obama! It will be interesting to see how his presidency shapes up in the coming weeks. But remember, he isn't the president yet, so technically he can't be blamed for anything yet either. Winter sold...

The Gooma Gooma Lady, written 2 weeks ago, The Gooma Gooma Lady lived during the Great Depression. She was either a forerunner of homeless people, or maybe just a little eccentric. In those days, women didn't up and jump on a box car to escape the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune; she did wha...

Dutch Socialist Reveals Organizing "Secret", written 1 week ago, by Aron Blue - aron.blue@gmail.com Three days before the presidential election, Dutch Socialist Party member of the European parliament Kartika Liotard met with the New York City chapter of the Socialist Party USA at the A.J...

Citigroup Is In Trouble, written 2 days ago, Just a couple of days after I heard that rumor on the Philippine operation of Citibank, today’s financial newswires are outlining the unfavorable situation of Citigroup. The Financial Times, Bloomberg, and Reuters articles today are writing that Citi’...

Middle School Password Games, written 3 days ago, We've been mighty busy over the past week, so please forgive the lack of activity here. Most of that busy time was spent in tweaking this lesson. I used the same idea for both classes, but covered different materials for the different levels. The ...

Amnesty International calls for action in the Democratic Republic of Congo, written 4 days ago, Andrew Philip of Amnesty International speaks about the deteriorating situation for people in the Democratic Republic of Congo and calls for action.

The future of proposition 8, written 2 days ago, Some Californians are suing to overturn proposition 8. The primary argument for the lawsuit is a little bit technical. Under California law, voters may pass an “amendment” to the California state constitution with a simple majority. But a “revis...

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Mr. President: Barack Obama, Wins Historic US Election, written 2 weeks ago, "It's been a long time coming, but tonight... change has come to America," the president-elect told a jubilant crowd at a park in Chicago. His rival John McCain accepted defeat, saying "I deeply admire ...

Australia tries to reclaim principle, written 1 week ago, The Australian government has attempted to restore its credibility on the death penalty after the prime minister last month appeared to support the execution of the Bali bombers. Ten days before the executions were carried out, prime ministe...

Hooray for taking people seriously, written 5 days ago, Needless to say I don't believe in the Beast, His Mark, etc. I don't have the time nor inclination for delving into the symbolism of the Book of Revelations, much less to take it literally. But Gaia bless the good folks at Recognition Systems, ...