Author: mike

Anyone who doubts that alcohol is just another psychoactive substance similar to cannabis or cocaine will be upset to find that Scottish scientists have confirmed the reality of the perceptual hallucination known as Beer...

This is a dynamite story by Newsweek concerning the ongoing investigation of the mass graves discovered in Afghanistan. It seems they are quite recent, and that the thousands of people there were slaughtered and...

So my archives are all screwed up and I tried deleting some posts around that time and reformatting them, to see if that cleared the problem. No go. But at least I got to...

All nations are imagined communities, and maintain cohesion through spectacular feats of imagineering. In the US, two of the prevailing ideological weapons deployed whenever “malcontents” suggest restructuring society in ways that may run counter...

So several people have asked did I have any photos of the Fat Apron Lady. Well, not quite, but there is this guy…

So I had to close off anonymous access to the Chu Mei Feng video because it’s been sitting there quietly for weeks and then sudenly several thousand people are hitting it. Network effects I...

From a cultural studies point of view it’s very exciting to witness modern myths during their creation. The death of Diana was one such event, the Y2K was another – although less interesting because...

Just back from a short trip to LA and, again, the weather sucked. No storms like last time, but overcast and generally spectacularly atypical. Noticed the usual preponderance of fake boobs. Every city has...

I note the main guy in this sordid rape fantasy tale sells church decorations for a living…

Here’s an interesting article that questions whether the standard practice of doping USAF pilots with aphetamines may be responsible for some of their unusually aggressive attacks. Apparently, pilots whacked out on speed are more...