Too amusing to pass up on the Fourth (via Cogitamus): "1776," a satire of "300," among other things. Not much to synthesize here, though I suppose we could also think about patriotism in a more seriou

Blogs are often completely derivative. One person somewhere writes something original, whether in the form of a blog post or an article or editorial that appears on some news site, and then bloggers p

Will wonders never cease? Remember Barr's assholic persecution of Clinton as one of the House's "impeachment managers"? Agree with Noam Scheiber over at The Stump that this Bloggingheads' sequence w/

Gnawing, always gnawing at unexpected corners and with preternatural vanity: Nader, dismissing Obama as too white/black. Reminds me of a certain Geraldine. Amazing. And now, look over here: counter-in

So I'm trying out the new corporate bus system, partly to save on some gas and also to alleviate some of the stress of my commute from Ballard to Redmond and back, which typically hits 50 mins to an h