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Posted on entry "But we must also not lose sight of the fact that I am right on every significant moral and political issue." ::: April 18, 2007, 01:45 PM:
Graydon, did people (men, I guess) go on killing sprees in pre-modern times, Gilles de Rais aside? Or are you thinking about specifically modern dislocation and destabilization?
Posted on entry Sock yarn outrage! ::: January 14, 2007, 03:31 PM:
Is it conceivable that this might be a consequence of what people used to call "an honest mistake," rather than the sort of dog-kicking wickedness that deserves a blog-swarming?
Posted on entry Why I blog ::: December 05, 2006, 01:44 AM:
Maybe people don't need journalists to help them see through the lying promises of people like George W. Bush.

Maybe people know the "facts" and vote for Republicans because they like the violence that Republicans reliably deliver.
Posted on entry Why I blog ::: December 05, 2006, 12:08 AM:
After 2000, 2002 and 2004, you want journalists, or anybody, to have greater faith in the electorate?
Posted on entry Naming the war ::: November 16, 2006, 09:27 PM:
The War from Cheney's Prostate.
Posted on entry Sojourn off that way ::: November 10, 2006, 11:21 AM:
I, for one, am glad that the religious and the secular can find common ground in the need to tell me how moral they are.
Posted on entry Rumsfeld: Man of War ::: September 29, 2006, 05:58 PM:
Were "warlord," "warmonger" and "war lover" taken for other CNN documentaries?
Posted on entry Papal din ::: September 22, 2006, 11:41 AM:
I wonder if Benedict thinks of what he did to Hans Kung as protecting the faith or academic politics.
Posted on entry Forgotten soldiers ::: September 14, 2006, 11:47 AM:
Which would make the men and women who write for the National Review and various right-wing blogs Dick Cheney cosplayers. A painful thought.
Posted on entry Aw, bugger ::: September 12, 2006, 11:17 AM:
Maybe his prediliction for being addressed as "Dr." offended GE's sensibilities.
Posted on entry How to throw a large room party at a science fiction convention ::: August 22, 2006, 07:28 PM:
As Nero Wolfe tells us, a guest is a jewel, resting upon the cushion of hospitality.
Posted on entry How to throw a large room party at a science fiction convention ::: August 21, 2006, 04:01 PM:
The name is spelled "Kierkegaard."

"Kirkegaard" is the modern Danish spelling of the word for "churchyard" -- as in, "Soren Kierkegaard is buried in Assistens Kirkegaard," as depicted here.

I'd be willing to bet he liked chocolate, though.
Posted on entry Articles we stopped reading ::: August 10, 2006, 10:36 AM:
Yes, Salon's really gone downhill since they let got that computer game reviewer who associated every single new game with the sexual and racial utopia he saw coming into being around him in the Bay Area.
Posted on entry The Art Department ::: July 12, 2006, 04:33 PM:
Dear Mr. President:

People are not wearing enough hats. Please do something about this. I am not a crank.

Yours,

Abraham J. Simpson
Posted on entry The Art Department ::: July 11, 2006, 10:27 PM:
Words to live by, really.
Posted on entry You really thought they weren't going to start using all that surveillance on their political opponents? ::: May 15, 2006, 06:49 PM:
If Lincoln was running the show, there'd be a hell of a lot more chilling of dissent going on. There'd also be a #*&(#@ draft.

I doubt that the Railsplitter would have invaded Iraq before having captured Osama bin Laden.
Posted on entry Styrofoam tits ::: May 11, 2006, 11:12 AM:
I can't believe how quickly a rant on breasts degenerated into a discussion on ancient history.

Isn't that sort of a reversal of the usual progress of comment threads? I.e., start out arguing about the identity of the inventor of the pith helmet, end up discussing how actresses on television are too thin.
Posted on entry Styrofoam tits ::: May 10, 2006, 10:58 AM:
I think the iconogrpahy of skintight superhero garb generally follows the example of Superman, who was the forerunner, and whose costume mimicked those of circus acrobats. But a heroic figure in a skintight suit, as Warren Ellis has pointed out ad nauseam, is effectively naked, and heroes have been routinely depicted in the nude before (i.e., on Greek vases).

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