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...

The leader of Iraq’s most powerful political party has called on the United States to let Iraqi fighters take a more aggressive role against insurgents, saying his country will only be able to defeat...

The [Sadr] Al Mahdi army has a heavy presence in the regular police force, U.S. and Iraqi authorities said. One high-ranking U.S. military officer estimated that up to 90% of the 35,000 police officers...

I was thinking a lot about the success of Islam in the 7th century during its emergence as a regional superpower. Divinely ordained or lucky break? I thik the Arabs got lucky. Right place,...

Irish Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern said [US Secretary of State Condoleezza] Rice told him in Washington she expected allies to trust that America does not allow rights abuses — a sign she will avoid...

An Enumclaw-area man who authorities say helped run a farm where people had sex with animals was charged with a misdemeanor yesterday in connection with a Seattle man’s death … [Kenneth Pinyan] died of...