The Illustrated Stephenson

Credit goes out to Aron for ferreting this one out. He’s been on a bit of a Flickr kick recently and happened across a Flickr group that is seeking to photographically document the real-world locations described in Neal Stephenson’s Baroque…

Political Chameleons

George Clooney – closet neocon? [Max Boot makes a decent point, but he fails to remember that it’s the writers of Clooney’s movies that have posited neocon-ish situations and merely let empty-headed Clooney chew the scenery in their invented worlds.…

Site-Seeing

Work continues apace, meaning that I’m extremely limited in the time that I can even think about blogging, let alone working up full posts. In lieu of some genuinely new and original content, I’d instead like to offer up links…

Politics Is The Strangest Game

Have you heard about former Bush advisor Claude Allen who allegedly shoplifted almost $5,500 in goods from a Maryland Target store? Well, the story just gets stranger: he may well have a good shot at the old “It wasn’t me,…

Brain Dirty. Must Clean.

If the content on the site has been a little light as of late, it’s not without reason: Will has been teething, I caught the 24 hour Avian Flu yesterday and I’ve been holed up in meetings getting reamed out…