If you’re not immediately familiar with the name Will Wright, you’ve probably never played Sim City, The Sims, etc. If you do know his name, you’re probably cursing it at this very moment for the countless hours you lost to…
In the wake of Crash‘s upset of Brokeback Mountain for best picture at last night’s Oscars, Glenn Reynold linked to a post by Mickey Kaus claiming that the members of the Academy were not voting their consciences on the matter…
…They’d probably look a lot like V-DUB In Ze House. Heh. Germans are stridently funny.
I’ve made a few changes around here lately and thought it might be worth pointing out the (fairly subtle) modifications. First up is the Rolling Archives visible at the bottom of the main blog page, originally conceived of by Michael…
I don’t know if y’all have seen (and, presumably, laughed uproariously at) Chariman Dean’s recent comedy bitspeech, but it reads like pure comedy gold. Had me in stitches, actually: “Karl Rove says that the Republicans are going to win on…
What strange times we live in, when admitted Socialists can manage to outflank ostensible “conservatives” to their starboard side. Witness Christopher Hitchens rake Francis Fukuyama over the rhetorical coals and marvel that “Right” and “Left” no longer mean anything; instead,…
The Danish paper at the center of the Mohammed Cartoons controversy, the Jyllands-Posten, has printed a manifesto signed by twelve Westernized Muslims and experts on Islam. The prose of the letter is moving and an excellent summation of the issues…
Those of you that enjoyed HBO’s miniseries Band of Brothers will likely be pleased by the following news: the crew behind BoB is currently working on a similar miniseries that encompasses the Pacific theater during World War II entitled The…
Some enterprising Cali geeks have constructed an answer to the now-classic Lazy Sunday (“The Chronic of Narnia”) SNL rap, entitling it Lazy Monday. Heh. UPDATE: Edited to reflect reality, as opposed to bizzaro alternative universe I apparently existed in where…
Dr. Sanity has a very interesting piece taking critics of the Bush Administration’s foreign policy to task for short-term thinking. To wit: The kind of major shift in US foreign policy that Bush has initiated may actually take decades to…
