Activist Judges: What the Right is trying to achieve is intimidation of the judiciary. What they want every judge to be thinking is that if they come down with a ruling against what the Right prefers, they can expect talks of impeachment, of harassment, of people out front with signs, of attacks. It's a bully's tactic.
10 Commandments -- Texas Style!: So what is being argued in front of the Supremes is (at least partly) -- the sanctity of Hollywood PR.
The N Game: I’m trying to figure out why the so-called N-word has become the one word you cannot say anywhere, under any circumstances. Now, crawl off that high horse. I’m not defending Michael Richards’ rant, but if you’d seen it you certainly believe that this was a man who completely and indefensively lost it in public. He appeared to be dangerous, and not in the Michael O’Donoghue / Saturday Night Live sense of the word. Any audience...
Reality – Not Politics: Famed writer Alan Moore will be appearing on an upcoming episode of The Simpsons. Given his well-known and admirable commitment to faithful adaptations, Alan will be dying himself yellow and chopping off a finger from each hand....
Closing a LOT of windows: All sorts of stuff before I do a major backup and upgrade... and I wonder I why keep these windows open, just so I can get around to blogging them. WFMU's Beware of the Blog: Early Science Fiction Fanzines: A Cover Gallery: So you can see all the scary drawings...
The Joke I didn't get to tell Harlan last weekend: Guy goes to a doctor's office. Doctor says, "I have bad news for you. You have advanced pancreatic cancer and early stage Alzheimer's." Guy says, "Damn. Well, at least I don't have cancer."...