Monthly Archive: November 2005

It’s Election Day in the Islas Malvinas Falkland Islands. What a great day for democracy. Of course, I can’t really see the UK granting the weak pseduo-Crown Dependency Falklands government any real local power...

Kermit the Frog as a multiplicity of necromancers. Incredible!

The position in which Jamadi died [is] a form of torture known as Palestinian hanging, in which a prisoner whose hands are secured behind his back is suspended by his arms. (The technique has...

Guantnamo is becoming like a little American town. A Starbucks had recently opened, and a McDonalds and several other restaurants did a brisk business. The area was unpleasantly wet and hot when I was...

I complained that too many world cultures were primed to reject the idea of random evolution through natural selection because most cultures or ideologies came out of or are immersed in and dependent upon...

North Carolina’s pro football team got rid of two cheerleaders who were arrested at a bar where witnesses told police the women were having sex with each other in a restroom stall. Witnesses said...

Someone asked recently was “England” a democracy, given that it has a monarch. One trouble with this question is its sloppiness in assuming that “England” is the entirety of The United Kingdom of Great...

Can one occupant of a home grant the police consent to search, thus effectively vetoing the stated objections of the other? … Justice Anthony Kennedy is concerned about the scope of the search: “What...

Feith held up a piece of paper and read aloud an account of al-Qaida’s ties with Iraq in the early 1990s. Then-Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley, a man well-known and well-liked in Washington...

So this is how imaginings of alien abductions take place. I entered the shower this morning at my usual time (noted because I checked the time as I was switching off the phone alarm)....