By • Jun 04,2008

Fiction: Retroactive Continuity

The only clean sweater was at the bottom of her suitcase, of course. Sarah stood in her jeans and bra, throwing clothes onto the bed. Outside, the rain picked up,...

By • Jun 03,2008

It´s Obama

Now what? Andrew revels in the minor epistemological crisis: When Obama passes the magic number, what to post? Readers are hereby invited to submit quotes, YouTubes, poems, songs, photographs and...

By • Jun 03,2008

OK, some real science

From a real scientist! Freeman Dyson took to the pages of the New York Review of Books to castigate global warming fanatics on their more evangelical tendencies. He was reviewing...

By • Jun 03,2008

Pfft

If there’s no such thing as the singularity, just kill me now. Ray Kurzweil promised me ever-lasting life (as did Our Lady Peace!)*…If I find out he lied to me...

By • Jun 03,2008

Willfull ignorance

For a number of us foreign policy hawks, the problem with the Iraq war wasn’t the war itself but George W. Bush’s totally inept handling of it, compounded by his...