all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned
So this grandstanding Jesus Creeper of a politician is currently making hay by condemning anyone who supports euthanasia. Yet in 1988 DeLay participated in a decision to withhold life support from his brain-damaged father,...
SO I got this new DVD recorder (NEC 3500) and, just for once, wanted to use it to make an honest backup (!) of a DVD that was quite rare. But when I tried...
I am back from a week in Ireland. Me and Lisa tramped across the Aran Islands, wandered through Connemara, and dawdled around Kilkenny before travelling to Dublin to blow our savings on restaurant bills....
Living in Manhattan has its ups and downs. One characteristic of this city is the ubiquitous air conditioning units retrofitted onto older buildings (such as the one me and Lisa live in) that stick...
So the porno-obsessed Christian devotees at the Parents Television Council have been so thoughtful and diligent that they have compiled a weekly “Worst TV” clips website. Excellent work people, keep it up!
After nearly two years of fighting, parts of the insurgency in Iraq are prepared to talk and move toward putting away their arms–and the U.S. is willing to listen … sources in Washington told...
Michael Malone, a “celebrity business journalist” provided this convenient pat analysis of start-ups: One of the tools I’m best known for is Folding Table Theory of Start-Ups. It says that when you walk into...
Here’s a religion I can really get behind: Yazidi, a sub-sect of (mostly Mosul, Iraq-based) Kurds. According to the Yazidi, Malak Taus is a fallen peacock angel who repented and recreated the world that...
A rebel Shiite cleric, wanted dead or alive by US troops, may be offered a seat in government. A favourite to become Iraq’s new prime minister has offered to include Sheikh Muqtada al-Sadr –...