What we really need to deal with our food crisis is to have more expensive food that is harvested by human rather than machine labor. Seriously, what is it with a certain class of intellectual that is so wedded to the idea of how wonderful things would be if we all became peasant farmers? Wendell Berry, I'm looking at you.

The horrible decline of the Vampire genre should have been apparent from the time of the pre-conversion Anne Rice writing about vampires who were angst-ridden, but so very, very pretty while being angst-ridden. The way it's handled has only gotten worse, with stories that could have been written for unfulfilled housewives that make the vampire an ( Read more... )

Iraqi police and a U.S. soldier dancing.

I probably should not have made an LJ post full of angry nationalistic venting. But I did, and the result was the first ever flame war in the comments of said journal.
So as a note to all my readers: Be polite in the comments of my LJ. That is all.

This is a hoot.

I don't know whether to be appalled at or have grudging respect for the type of people willing to play chicken with a multi-trillion dollar economy because of their principles. That takes some stones.

Six Saints Who Could Kick Your Ass.
I have entirely too much fun with cracked.com

So, this is a nice, vivid image in Peraldus's discussion of the virtue of Faith: "Faith is the eye that the infernal crow frequently seeks to gouge out, just as a visible crow first races to the eye of a cadaver."

Watching Queen videos on YouTube makes me really sad that we didn't have protease inhibitors earlier. :*(

I'm still really confused about this business of money that disappears if people stop believing in it. That sounds like something out of a fantasy novel.