Author: mike

It is indeed a sad and weird time when a pondslime like Larry Flynt is the only publisher fighting in the courts to secure and regain the traditional constitutional rights of journalists to report...

So I got this message from someone, complaining that my “moral stance” seemed untenable. This surprised me, because one thing I think I’ve never claimed is to be in any way moral. I am...

Guys are so weird sometimes. You have ones into multiply breasted women, horse women, robot women, lego porn stars, and plastic women. And something about inflatable things that are rarely even anthropomorphized. What’s going...

Using a locksmith, police opened the car to find the man’s body, spattered with candle wax and covered by a tablecloth in a wicker basket in the back seat of the vehicle. The woman’s...

Bummer, those high-intensity electron beam irradiators the USPS is zapping the mail with erase and damage camera memory cards, photo film, contact lenses, and so on. That’s it for a lot of mail-order businesses....

Good op-ed here, illustrating the dangerous absurdity of conflating individuals’ actions with collective punishment against entire countries. Reminds me of how World War One stemmed from a single assasination of a royal guy by...

So Karzai’s US-backed government in central Afghanistan is attempting to exert its authority over the warlords by issuing an ultimatum that all non-authorized armed men (ie, Northern Alliance militia) quit Kabul. Good luck, especially...

Dave sent me email, pointing out he’s from an Adventist, somewhat veggie/abstemious background, and that various of his gramps lived to be around a century. But that not eating cows hasn’t really stopped India...

This is much fun, I’ve gotten some hate mail from aggrieved Polymers. And much of it, as expected, is expressed in anal-genital terms “asshole”, “shithead”, “cocksucker”, and so on. This fits in with my...

Big Meat, not satisfied with killing the planet, is now killing hedgehogs!?!?!? Is nothing sacred? When will the hedgehog army rise up to avenge their apocalypse? What will my mutant dwarf army be able...