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…or let him be killed, apparently. That would be double-stuff good for The Powers That Be, having some racist gunhumper breeze through the non-existent deterrents and do in the primary threat to the status quo. Then they could avoid the tiresome hassle of ginning up some lame cover-up story for their operative/patsy. […]

“How much are YOU WORTH?” A shady computer tech school in my area begins their radio commercials asking people to pause and reflect on that question before going on to imply that a certification in information technology will be worth about 50K right at graduation, and creating a false sense of prestige by saying […]

A friend posed the question, “Are you patriotic?” on his blog. My response elicited a fairly interesting discussion wherein the utilitarian value of patriotism was debated.
Because it’s not just that I’m not patriotic. The thought of my own nation seems precariously abstract, with its imaginary lines and precarious sovereignty and identity. It brings up as […]

The New York Times ran a sympathetic article on “freegans” - hardcore anti-consumerist dumpster divers. Lots of pictures of fun young people scavanging perfectly good shit in the dumpsters by NYU after the affluent students toss things (like working iPods and television sets) rather than move them at the end of the semester. […]

I recently read Max Elbaum’s Revolution in the Air, which is an incredibly detailed account of the post-1968 new Communist movement in the U.S. It’s a rich and fascinating book, worth reading even if you don’t identify as a Communist; it’s a key piece of history that tends to be left out in discussions of […]

Robert Knight of the American Family Association gazes upon the havoc that his flying monkeys have unleashed upon Ford, and by havoc-releasing-flying-monkeys I mean he pats himself on the back for being around to kick Ford while it was already down. He derives no small satisfaction from the idea that while, sure, he can’t […]

About.com has never been my go-to source for anything, but only because it’s kind of bland and usually not terribly helpful. The flipside of that, though, is that it’s never struck me as too terribly hurtful, either. And if it wasn’t chockfull o’ detail, at least the authors managed to convey the idea […]

Like the guy at the end asks “are you on our side or theres?”
Which I find is never a bad question to ask yourself. (via)

A BBC.com editorial by World Conservation scientist Jeffery McNeely lists some of the lesser-discussed cons of biofuels, including ethanol:

However, biofuels - made by producing ethanol, an alcohol fuel made from maize, sugar cane, or other plant matter - may be a penny wise but pound foolish way of doing so….
-Much of the fuel that Europeans […]

When I was in high school, this guy I didn’t know died of cancer. A friend of mine who was a notorious attention whore wrote a deeply felt, incredibly bad poem about it, a gesture that went unappreciated by his friends just because she misspelled his name.
I thought about that today, shortly […]