From his arguement against shield laws for journalists, Frank Cagle: There is a false argument raging on the Internet about whether bloggers are “journalists” and whether they should be accorded the same rights and privileges. This is idiocy. The rights and privileges belong to every American citizen, whether they work for a newspaper or whether […]
This time from a soon to be ex-congressional candidate.From The News-Dispatch Zirkle confirmed to The News-Dispatch on Monday he spoke Sunday in Chicago at a meeting of the Nationalist Socialist Workers Party, whose symbol is a swastika.Wait, it gets dumber.He also told WIMS radio in Michigan City that he didn’t believe the event he attended […]
A recent post of mine has portions of it than have been proven to be wrong.An update has been attached. Read here
… to look stupid.Germany hosted the 1936 Olympics. Lots of drama revolved around that choice, just like China’s games this year.If the current controversies with the torch relay lead to the end of the torch relay tradition, like some are saying might happen, it would provide an interesting symmetry as the torch relay was created […]
“>When the vengance of villans violates the virtues of free vocalization, one must veil their visage via the mask.All alliteration aside, Scientology has a history of harassing its critics in and out of the courts. So now there is a movement of protestors illuminating problems with the Church of Scientology that is remains masked. Electronically […]
1. Dr. Helen alerts us that it’s now a felony to look creepy in the vicinity of children in Maine.2. Jacob Sullum at Hit and Run notices that Maine (and specifially Bangor) is leading the way in nanny-statism.*Sigh*Soon, you won’t be able to show your face in public in Maine without violating a few laws.UPDATE!!! […]
Megan McArdle: The background: twenty people were at the Jefferson Memorial, dancing to the private groove of their own iPods so as not to disturb anyone. Apparently cops showed up and ordered them to disperse anyway, despite the fact that they were not doing anything obviously illegal. One of the libertarians joyfully (yet tastefully and […]
A discussion in the comments at the Absorbacscon: Does the kind of comic books one likes correspond with ones political leanings or how one chooses a candidate?The highlight of which is the inspirational vs. asparational observations.
Mike Nelson, formerly of Mystery Science Theatre 3000, continues to provide smart-alec commentary to films at RiffTrax, where you can buy MST3K-style mp3 commentary tracks to play along with your own DVD’s at home.On some of the tracks he’s accompanied by either some of his former MST3K alumni, or special celebrity guests. But I never […]
For quite a while now, a sizable portion of this site’s traffic has been from people searching for Jocqueline Mackie Paisley Passey, as her blog disappeared from the Internet.My mentions of her on prior occasions attracted various web searches for her, as people were looking for where she was online, and what happened to her.Well, […]
Legal Crisis on Earth-Prime!!!from Cheeseburger Gothic (emphasis mine): There was a great story doing the rounds of the sci-tech sites that leaped across into the mass media this week. A guy in the US had gone to court in Hawaii to get an injunction against the new super collider at CERN in Europe.He was concerned […]
(The following was written on the evening of February 27th)As I type this I’m listening to a phone call.Apparently Tom Allen’s office (either his congressional office or his campaign, I don’t know which) called me with a recording announcing that I was being immediately connected to a “town hall meeting” conference call with the Congressman […]
A business manga?It’s not so unusual in Japan, but a first for an American publisher. Johnny Bunko trailer from Daniel Pink on Vimeo.The book hits the bookstore shelves on Monday. The promotional website, JohnnyBunko.com, goes live on Monday too.You can order the book from Amazon.com. I’ll be doing that myself.Being from a regular book publisher, […]
From Roger L. Simon:… HarperCollins Publishers is launching a new business that won’t accept returns from retailers. In addition, the new entity intends to pay little or nothing in the way of advances to its authorsAt first blush, this sounds like HarperCollins being cheap. But in reality, it looks more like the Image Comics model […]