The skinny on the bogus FISA immunity “compromise” over at Ars Technica.

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Some ruminations on status and income inequalities here.

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I want one of these.

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A few months back, when my roomate was heavily covering the whole Ron Paul R[EVOL]ution, I would swing by  a Ron Paul discussion forum every now and again to see what was on the minds of the Paulistas. As the Republican primary rolled on and it became clear that John McCain would be the nominee […]

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After hearing wonderful things about it for something like a decade (notably an effusive appreciation by Robert Anton Wilson that I read back in high school) I finally got around to seeing Orson Welles’ fantastic F for Fake this weekend. It instantly broke into my top five. Get yourself a copy or find a screening […]

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Vlogging from a Train from Julian Sanchez on Vimeo.

My mind will be sorta blown if this works.

Cast: Julian Sanchez

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So, my RSS reader routinely presents me with a quandary. A bare minimum of once per day, the Weekly Standard‘s Michael Goldfarb produces a piece of truly stunning hackery audacious even by the standards of partisan blogging. Often, I’m tempted to comment on this. Normally, I refrain on the grounds that it’s low-hanging fruit, and […]

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Remember Enemy of the State? Oversized, sort of silly-but-fun action thriller starring Will Smith and Gene Hackman. (The latter as a paranoid surveillance expert who works out of a Faraday cage in an otherwise vacant warehouse, which is a cute homage, but invites a necessarily unflattering comparison.)  Driving the plot in the background is a […]

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“Seven of your friends joined the group Support Soren Dayton!” My friend list just got trimmed by seven.

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