Michael Moore TKO’s Bill O’Reilly last night O’REILLY: But I also know that they have us in a vise in the capitalistic system, because they provide jobs. They provide retirement benefits. They provide health benefits. And anything that we do … Continue reading →

You are most like Basil, assaulted by bears! Created by Thren. Which Gashlycrumb Tiny are you?

Last night I had an anxiety dream about having to send in my PowerBook to Apple for some undisclosed reason. Dream time was spent dutifully waiting on the phone for a RMA number while obsessively making sure I had at … Continue reading →

So why is a South Carolina textile billionaire funding Ralph Nader’s group Public Citizen? Even odder, a multinational consumer goods company is funding the Ruckus Society.

Coolness! There’s a new translation of Guy Debord’s Situationist text The Society Of The Spectacle up on the web.

From the “well duh!” files… “Study shows how much people hate a winner“

Microbiologists are dropping like flies. Since Sept. 11, at least a dozen high-powered microbiologists have died under violent and/or mysterious circumstances. Mike Ruppert’s story had to be pulled down and updated because three more have died in the week since … Continue reading →

Impressive “This American Life” show about the mob mentality (Listen and think about campus confrontationalists or talk radio ranters) [RRE]

Science fiction without the future…. Science fiction author Judith Berman looks at a year’s worth of issues of Asimov’s and ponders the dearth of new, young sf readers. She raises the point that very few of the stories being published … Continue reading →

The Intensification of Global Instability. Iran is moving toward internal crisis. Venezuela’s political problems are worsening. The Israeli and Palestinian conflict is entering a new era, and civil war has broken out in Colombia. The United States’ inevitable obsession with … Continue reading →