A reporter on the BBC World Service just noted that the date of the attack on Nagasaki was determined in part by the worry that typhoons coming in over Japan left only a short window for a sortie. His conclusion: “So, frighteningly, it was the weather that was determining politics rather than the other way […]

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Y’know, I frequently disagree with pieces TechCentralStation runs—I expect to—but I don’t usually expect to feel embarassed for them. On Monday they ran this ridiculous defense of Intelligent Design, and I’m embarassed for them. The awfulness begins in the very first line, when the author, who has a degree in metorology, makes a disingenuously vague […]

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This weekend, I finally got around to reading volume one of Foucault’s History of Sexuality. This volume, at least, is not so much a “history” as an interpretive lens or framework for thinking about a history that Foucault assumes a fair amount of familiarity with on the reader’s part. Though infinitely more intelligible than most […]

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Since the August issue is now posted on the home page, I guess I can link my article about the state legislative assault on gay parental rights: “All Happy Families.”

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So, I’ve been looking forward to the forthcoming movie adaptation of V for Vendetta (though, in light of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, not wholly without trepidation), but it occurs to me that, in light of recent events, the movie may have a rough go of it. The hero, after all, kicks off the movie […]

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This may just be the funniest comic-geek site ever. I suggest starting here. Hat tip: Jakeneck.

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So, much as I’m weary of western politicians who couldn’t tell the Ka’ba from a peach cobbler going on about how extremists are “perverting” Islam—how the hell do they know?—this article, which got its author suspended from his radio talk show hosting job for its claim that “Islam is a terror organization,” is truly, profoundly […]

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