Author: mike

So Lorien and Rachella convinced me to go to lunchtime yoga with them. The incredibly flexible trainer showed us how to “open up our groins”. This was not as exciting as it initially sounded...

So deranged-yet-cunning Jesse Helms’s swansong Bomb The Shit Out of Holland bill is all about protecting Kissinger from international justice. And this crap already passed HoR? There are more morons there than I’d feared.

Robotic Cats! The future is here. No more scoring, getting back to someone’s apartment all excited, they open the door… and there’s that unmistakable grungy cat smell.

When CBS’s Dan Rather can wonder out loud on Larry King Live, “How did we get sucker punched?”, Arnaud de Borchgrave (former CEO at United Press International) can answer The dumbing down of the...

How are those airborne food drops going? Villagers and refugees fought over who could squirrel away the most. Arguments broke out when soldiers from the nearby front line heard about the drop and rushed...

Update: Seems the Inuit can’t be blamed for Bj�rk Gu�mundsd�ttir, they never really made it to Iceland – but they did take all of Greenland from the Vikings/Danes when they got there, later. The...

The Wall Street Journal is such a fascist rag. This article argues that democracy doesn’t work, what is needed is the imposition of stronger leaders to “impose order” on the Middle East. Gosh, this...

This article is good, all about how difficult it is to move forward strategically in Afghanistan. The US can’t bomb the shit out of the Taliban where they are concentrated, because then the other...

I love these old tales of how far some people went exploring. Of course, we only hear about these ones because they wrote it down. I mean, Pytheas gets a lot of press for...