Eileene borrowed a documentary video on pornography, subtitled “the Secret History of Civilization.†She’s cautioned me that the last couple episodes are pretty dull, but the first two, and especially the first, have been informative and hilarious. It begins with a discussion of the sexually explicit art of Pompeii, and especially on its discovery by […]
Had a laugh-out-loud moment last night, watching Eileene play L.A. Noire-with-an-“e.†Its protagonist, Detective Phelps, shares with Sgt. Friday a straight-as-an-arrow personality that’s stiffly awkward most of the time and occasionally rises to neurotic. Okay, I get the idea that he’s a straight cop in a dirty city, that he actually pursues evidence instead of […]
So Sarah Palin coughed up another gob of the ignorance and inarticulacy for which she is infamous, roughly suggesting that Paul Revere ran ringing a bell at the British troops to warn them that they wouldn’t take our guns, so there. Insofar as her half-formed sentences have meaning at all, they were false and foolish. […]
Poor Newt. Nobody understands him. There he was, ambushed in a scheduled appearance on Meet the Press by being allowed to speak at length. And in one tiny slip of the tongue, a slip of the tongue that lasted about a minute, Newt clarified the substance of the current Republican plan for Medicare (“get rid […]
On hearing that IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Khan had been nabbed and denied bail pending a sexual abuse trial, I was quietly pleased. Presuming his alleged victim isn’t simply hoping to hit the wrongful lawsuit jackpot—which doesn’t seem likely, but can never be entirely dismissed—we’ve got a rare case of a man of power and privilege […]
A panel on the radio was discussing bin Laden’s execution tonight, and specifically who deserves how big a share of the credit for it. To their credit and my surprise, conservatives are applauding Obama for the raid. Claims that the Bush administration and its hard-line policies should share the credit are somewhat more dubious. One […]
A panel on the radio was discussing bin Laden’s execution tonight, and specifically who deserves how big a share of the credit for it. To their credit and my surprise, conservatives are applauding Obama for the raid. Claims that the Bush administration and its hard-line policies should share the credit are somewhat more dubious. One […]
We got the news this morning that Osama bin Laden was killed sometime last night in an assault on his compound in Pakistan. President Obama would like you to think of this as a watershed in the war on terror: a great achievement that Bush bungled, a severe blow to al Qaeda, maybe even the […]
We got the news this morning that Osama bin Laden was killed sometime last night in an assault on his compound in Pakistan. President Obama would like you to think of this as a watershed in the war on terror: a great achievement that Bush bungled, a severe blow to al Qaeda, maybe even the […]
Hardly time for a proper entry today, but that’s okay: the thing most worth sharing today is a scheme to get software pirates to turn themselves in. I’m not technically savvy enough to explore the implications, but I’m human enough for the news to curl my toes with delight. And damned if the pirates who […]