Try to imagine a young educated marxist conscript who had lost his consciousness during the Battle of the Somme, was then cryogenically frozen, and only revived last year. What would be his analysis of the conflicts in the Middle East? To answer this, consider John Spritzler's latest contribution. T...

Autor:José Frèches Rating: - Jaful de la palatul de vară rating - recenzii carti" src="http://www.bookblog.ro/rating/2stars.jpg" / Editura: All Pace şi bine! Viziunea critică Un termen tare, cu care se mândresc o mulţime de literaţi, dar are suferă de un defect capital – este o viziune. O...

This is just too good to pass up. U.S. District Judge James Robinson is fed up with the frivolous birther lawsuits. The latest one, captioned "Gregory Hollister v. Barry Soetero" (so you know its crap right from the get-go?) was......

The featured story on the website of city planning magazine City Journal is "How Science Fiction Found Religion" by Benjamin A. Plotinsky. (I'm not sure how it fits into the journal's scope, but nevertheless, there it is.) Plotinsky's thesis is that SF movies and TV, which have...

No matter how many we prove that the escalation that led to Israel's invasion of Gaza was chiefly the result of Israeli decisions, the canard that Israel "had to respond to Qassams" is not going away. It is too convenient and therefore almost immune from rational refutation. Nevertheless, here we tr...

We are in Apartheid Week, and a good time to revisit the question. How similar is the regime in Israel to the defunct Apartheid regime? We can answer that question by pointing the many similarities, as many have done extensively. Stop The Wall has an excellent summary of all the aspects that justify...

Watchmen is a good, and even a great, comic. But the best ever written? Hardly—and it's not even Alan Moore's best work, either. Here are my picks for Moore stories slightly more deserving of the praise that's heaped on Watchmen. 1. Miracleman* Much of what Moore does in Watchmen he di...

Oswald Grübel, the new CEO of UBS, the Swiss bank that, like many of its Atlantic peers, exists today only thanks to generous public assistance that pays for its former recklessness, earned ca. $20,000 on his first two days on the job. His pre-bonus annual "compensation" is CHF 3 million. Some Swis...

Sweet shit in a bucket! In follow up news to my earlier post about giving AIG yet another bailout, AIG is suing us! The insurer filed the lawsuit on Friday because of a dispute with the IRS over $306 million......

In a guest post at Superman blog Say It Backwards, my thoughts on which ego is really alter: Superman disguises himself as Clark Kent. Right? It says it right there in the opening of the George Reeves TV series. "Disguised as Clark Kent, mild-mannered reporter for a great Metropolitan newspaper...