Author: mike

This is a great essay on the state of the UK’s “Constitution”.

Googlewhacking… So I was bored.

This is great. I saw these great photos of the Kandahar Drag Scene in a recent New Yorker article. Ah Kandahar, where birds fly over the city using only one wing, the other covering...

A nice, long Seymour Hersh piece on clandestine Pakistan support for Taliban evacuation using Pakistani helicopters and safe air routes. Of course, the sources are mainly Indian, so there is that.

I think that fires are good, especially in hell. San Francisco was not a clean city, like Chicago and Boston, she was nasty.

So we have one Andreas Weigand coming in to talk to us tomorrow, about some connectionist stuff he does. But I bet he wishes he could take back this Usenet article. Or maybe not.

Pepsi’s Doritos group has decided that the Superbowl demographic is too old to sell the Frito Lay brand. They are taking their ad dollars online. The death of the online ad market really has...

What is with Bush Spawn? George’s partying daughters have their own website dedicated to stories of their messiness, but it’s Jeb Bush’s kids that can’t seem to stay out of trouble. Young Jebby Bush...

Gore Vidal on the Olsen Twins: If it weren’t for those two little whores, Jon Benet might still be with us today

I liked this, Moby Dick and Ahab’s futile absolutist quest as a perfect analogy for the Bush Gang’s “War on Terrorism”.