WTF is George W. Bush doing handing out the congressional “freedom” award to the Dalai Lama, the religious dictator head of a slave-owning cult? Is this what he was elected to do? “W” is a complete and utter embarrassment.
Speaking of cults, I’ve been warning you about the dangers of Scrappy Dickie Dawkins and his comrades […]
Purveyor of beauty Khoi Vinh laments the deteriorating state of his handwriting.
I’ve noticed the same with my handwriting. He and his readers draw the conclusion that beautiful writing is a casualty of technology. I recently had a related insight, about technology’s impact on beauty in general.
Tim Sneath recently helped the British Library digitize some of […]
Sprint is now refusing service to customers who make too many support calls. Verizon recently started shutting off people who use too much of the “unlimited” data plan.
In both cases, the phone company unilaterally changed the service policy without informing customers. I would love to be able to unilaterally change the amount of money […]
The U.N. is actually recommending that adult males in Africa be circumcised, and New York City is considering the same.
This is astonishing, not only because it is wacky science, but because it is the quintessential 3,000 years-old example of wacky science.
Basically, the U.N. did the work to show that men who were circumcised as children […]
George: We must do something! If we don’t do something, we’ll die eventually!
Nancy: Yes, if we don’t become immortal, we’ll die eventually.
George: I’m looking for the fountain of youth.
Nancy: That’s stupid. You are always looking, abandoning your home, and you still haven’t found it.
George: You have no plan! Your plan would have us die eventually. […]