"The Last Question" - by Isaac Asimov

I know this meme has been beaten into the ground and had crack sprinkled on it, but this little piece is a gem.
Give it a chance. If you don't like it after the first three minutes, you can turn it off.
But I might get sad and write a poem about it.

How to be emo.

Waaaarrrrgghh!!!! *pulls out hair*

Gore made a brilliant point in his speech today, and it was this ( Read more... )

Reprinted from Tracy's email and lj, completely without permission:
(All of you! Write them nasty emails! C'thulu demands it!)

( Sorry, just realized maybe you all don't want this whole letter gummying up your friends pages. Then I remembered that I have no friends. )

And so we move closer to our truths through the eyes of babes.

The Women's Petition Against Coffee (London, 1674)

and

The Men's Answer to the Women's Petition Against Coffee (London, 1674 ( Read more... )

oh lordy
not to distract ANY of you from my last post
but this is just precious. perfect, in fact.

video, penn and teller, has to do with bibles, 30 minutes, watch the whole thing, fullscreen button is in the lower right hand corner of your screen, it looks like a little box with arrows around it. if just one of you watches this show I shall be ( Read more... )

Mark Danner on the January election. Excerpt below ( Read more... )

And just in time for Christmas.

mildly NSFW.