Here is a rigorous analysis of the weighty matter of rock, paper, and scissors.   In a moment of weakness, I allowed myself to consider that perhaps it is ridiculous to break a long silence with something so pointless...  until we ask:  "Pointless" as opposed to what? For those who insist on . . . (More)

  News Flash! Apparently, people who believe in demons are crazy and dangerous. Who knew?  

  I took my seat on the bus, as bus riders do, and folded up and tucked between the side of my seat and the wall was a Post-It NoteŽ.  I present it without evaluation or correction. 2009: it's 2009 the same old fucking story Fed Poison by our people to Protect a major company Jus . . . (More)

 Chrysippus, a favorite and very quotable Stoic, once said that poverty teaches by force those lessons that philosophy tries to teach by persuasion.  In this I am inclined to agree with him.  Recently, the American news media have been much agitated over reductions in consumer spending, for exa . . . (More)

 At the risk of appearing to beat a dead horse with a lame duck, this: seems like a good idea.  Sadly, but inevitably, my gonadless compatriots and the quislings who rule them will never grow the requisite pair, or brain. (Though I can honestly say that I didn't write this simply as . . . (More)

 I remember, shortly after 9/11, the TV was on.  And wasn't it always on?  No airplanes, but plenty of TV.  Apparently, that is what we do.  I don't say that it's bad or good; I say that it is what we do, now that we are the people that we have become.  An off-screen announcer said, behind plain . . . (More)

 If you're like me - and you are - you probably pride yourself on your immunity to popular prejudices.  Of course, most of these idols were pre-smashed for you by some other, competing set of idol-makers.  Noam Chomsky taught you to distrust the media, but you trust him.  South Park makes fu . . . (More)

 Our civil libertarians have a lot to complain about, and theirs is a righteous struggle.  But, candidly, there is very little that is forbidden in America.  And yet...There are things that, while not exactly forbidden, are nonetheless very effectively prevented from happening.  There are many . . . (More)

 I wish you all had one neck, and my hands were around it.                - Carl PanzramNews flash!!  This just in!!!!!Barack Obama loves his wife, and his children, and his parents, and America, and God and shit!And also he has children!  They love him back!  Also his wife!And he is in . . . (More)

 It's become the most elephantine of elephants in the living room - and the Lord knows that we have plenty of those, these days.  (Did you know that the American family is held together by money and incest?  Oops.  Move along - nothing to see here.)  In fact, of all the mammals infesting all . . . (More)