...wherein Jenny McCarthy disgraces the name of all former Playmates with her anti-vaccine hysteria:
http://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2011/02/20/

Taken from Futility Closet...I really need to track down the original source, which was helpfully not provided.

In 1918, Bertrand Russell was sentenced to six months in prison for writing an antiwar essay.

I was much cheered in my arrival by the warder at the gate who had to take particulars about me. He asked my religion and I replied ‘agnostic ( Read more... )

What with this obviously being a shoutout to Creature Growth (or Vanished Planet, for those who are sticklers for the original names of things), it's clearly a storyline created for iralith:

http://www.pvponline.com/2010/08/02/versus/

What with most of the guest actors being German and all, the accents on Lexx can be kind of distracting. Especially when they start trying to do other accents, which doesn't really go well. That's said, it's utterly hilarious to see that they devoted a whole episode to making fun of Idaho (or, as the planet on the show is called, Potatoho). It's ( Read more... )

Hey, I just found out that Hulu has the entire run of Lexx on it! A show that's half awful and half awesome, with occasional guest appearances by Nigel Bennett and one big one from Tim Curry. My kind of show. Plus I'm utterly addicted to listening to Kai's people's war song that played over the first minute of the show, as he goes off on a ( Read more... )

Since I was asked about this earlier in the week, here's Freezepop's rendition of the theme song for Jem:

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I finally found a decent translation of Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Possessed (the first one I had to put down after 20 pages), and have been finding it eye-opening, if long and not quite up to the standard of The Brothers Karamazov. One of the more interesting passages, partly because I think it speaks to certain segments of the American populace ( Read more... )

New York State Legislature Votes to Furlough State Workers

http://www.cbs6albany.com/news/state-1273737-workers-furloughs.html

I'm cross-posting this because dude! Peter Seeger singing about garbage. And from the State Archives, no less!

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Hey, I finally got around to calling my Congressman and telling him (well, his voicemail) to vote for the damn health care bill. I've been meaning to do that for weeks, and really feel like I should have done it sooner.