Countdown to fascism
In the Guardian, Naomi Wolf shows us the road to a "Fascist America, in 10 Easy Steps": 1. Invoke a terrifying internal and external enemy 2. Create a gulag 3. Develop a thug caste...
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The Roald Dahl Memorial Bill?
I'd like to propose a law. My idea is inspired by a technique I proposed for preventing executives from prioritizing the most egregiously idiotic of projects, but admittedly those stakes are small beer compared...
Dropping algebra
My good friend Michael Harrison has produced a very funny critique of the Iraq Algebra Study Group: We think that direct talks with these math brains might lead to insights and opportunities for joint studying and...
I couldn't see the date on the newspaper
My subway reading the past couple of days has been the Bruce Sterling collection Globalhead. This morning I was sailing right through—until I decided to change things up and take a different route to work....
Break out the rum!
Holy shit! It's way too late, but Rummy has resigned. This is too much good news in 24 hours. I'm trying not to be giddy, because we're still deep in...
Nothing's shocking, anymore
I love the United States. I hate what our government is doing to it. I hate that we're allowing it. I love Molly Ivins, who writes in "Why the Torture Bill Matters,"...