Back from Florida, an interesting place. From what little I could see, most of the state seems to be composed of condos, fake pirate ships, strip malls, and bait shops. There is a lot...

Evo Morales, who won Bolivia’s presidential election on vows to end a U.S. campaign against coca growing, stepped up his criticism of American anti-drug policies on Monday, accusing Washington of using drug fighting efforts...

A detention center in Baghdad operated by Interior Ministry special commandos [contained] 13 prisoners who had suffered abuse serious enough to require medical treatment, U.S. and Iraqi officials said Sunday night. An Iraqi official...

[US investigators described] an extensive criminal network involving North Korean diplomats and officials, Chinese gangsters and other organized crime syndicates, prominent Asian banks, Irish guerrillas and an alleged ex-KGB agent … One of the...

We put 150,000 people outside their homes in Fallujah. If you remember in Jordan, the bomber said that the reason she became a bomber was because two of her relatives were killed in Fallujah....

I’ve been looking for just the right xmas decorations and then I came across this: an original Roman soldier’s Sol Invictus ring. The Sol Invictus cult was a deity that Constantine pimped up in...

Joseph Goebbels – Nazi Reichsminister fr Volksaufklrung und Propaganda, on the idea of memes: An idea always lives in individuals. It seeks an individual to transmit its great intellectual force. It becomes alive in...

I thought it was somehow important to list which Facebook groups I am in: California Love Agnostics and Atheists Amalgamate Eddie Izzardites Lazy Asses Zoolandericous Arrested Development, whut. I Break For Sherpas! [That hansel...

So evil Yahoo bought delicio.us, a collaborative tagging website. The usual suspects have been writing lots of crap about “Web 2.0” over the last few years, about how it was going to turn us...

Just for kicks I typed mesothelioma (the asbestos cancer disease) into Google and the results are quite impressive. The number of paid adverts on the screen seems limited only by the maximum length of...