By • Oct 14,2008

xkcd

I don’t know if any of you have already read these, but those who haven’t should really bother checking them out. Most of the computer humor goes right over my...

By • Oct 14,2008

Poll workers beef in Ohio

Well then: Poll workers from opposing sides in the presidential race apparently clashed in a physical altercation Friday at a Cuyahoga Falls nursing home when one accused the other of...

By • Oct 13,2008

Dysentery

Woody Allen would be proud of the staff at Politics and Prose, Washington’s most famous bookstore, where they’ve actually got Dissent and Commentary side by side in the racks: They...

By • Oct 13,2008

On schadenfreude

After calling for this longer than most, James Howard Kunstler takes a victory lap. I suppose he’s entitled, what with him basically making systemic crises his life’s work. Still, like...

By • Oct 13,2008

All sticks, all the time

The now-predominant Republican presumption that every foreign policy problem can be solved, if only the U.S. gets nastier, is a cancer on conservatism and on the United States.  States acquire...