Today I read some letters to the New York Times editor about the Iraq war, letters which I thought were particularly badass and undiluted in their writing style. Here are the most badass two ( Read more... )

I'm going to Boston tomorrow. I'll be there until the sixteenth. Who wants to hang out?

I just caught myself muttering the following sentence aloud: "That's just the emotionally masochistic part of my brain asking for more lovin' from the God of Hatred."

I don't believe it. I just learned of the existence of a movie called "The Hours and Times," "A fictionalized account of what may have happened when John Lennon and Brian Epstein went on holiday together to Spain in 1963." It came out in 1991, so if I'd known about it I could have seen it when I was fourteen, back when pretty much all of my ( Read more... )

It would be cool if secular humanists started getting offended by the use of the word "Man" as an interjection, since it's taking His name in vain.

I think it's about time we put our heads together and came up with a mnemonic for remembering how to spell the word "mnemonic". Any thoughts?

I really hope John Edwards has something unbelievably awesome to say when Dick Cheney looks at him like he's an idiot, laughs incredulously and says, "'Sensitive'? A 'sensitive' war on terror? Hah!" I don't know what that awesome comeback is, but I can imagine Edwards spitting it out triumphantly, while the cheering audience rises to their feet ( Read more... )

This is the most meta conversation I've ever had with myself.

I've always had trouble understanding money. I'm not really ashamed of this. I feel like I'm confused in a good way about something worthy of my confusion. I suspect that the wiring in my brain which causes the confusion will eventually hit the jackpot and start pouring out economic insights. Oh, y'know, that was a financial metaphor. Good for ( Read more... )

The whale simply cannot decide
Just where she prefers to reside.
In water? On land?
In sea, or on sand?
She can't say, although both have been tried.

If the fish knew about it, they'd fail
To accept the strange past of the whale.
It might cause a riot,
So she keeps it quiet,
And hides her hind legs in her tail.