The new design: good or bad? Well, actually it’s really just the logo text up there, since otherwise it’s just Kubrick. There’s one vote in the bad column so far.

Mansquito?
It’s also very odd that SciFi has a promo where Greg Palast is unraveling himself.

A very strange article on Media Transparency.org about the National Religious Broadcaster’s convention. Some of the highlights:
Nowhere during the NRB conference were the contradictions more severe — or better suppressed — than at the Israeli Tourism Ministry breakfast. Since the Intifada began four years ago, damaging Israel’s international prestige and scaring off Jewish tourists, Israel […]

The collection grew this month when Cpl. Raleigh Smith was honored posthumously with the Bronze Medal for Valor. It was issued by the government Feb. 9 and arrived in Troy last week. Smith, a 2002 Troy High School graduate, had just turned 21 when he was shot and killed during an insurgent ambush of his […]

I realize it’s kind of dull to debunk letters to the editor, but here’s another one on evolution:
Some questions posed to advocates of evolution
I am writing in response to two letters. First, Scott Graber (letter, Feb. 20) seemed to be saying that in the same way the Catholic Church finally admitted that Galileo was correct […]

The Biblical prophet Elijah is back and he has an official website! You have 4 years to prepare for the rapture or culling or whatever.
Women are pawns of the Illuminati! Technically I learned this yesterday, but it takes a while to sink in.
The Illuminati also control the Republican party. And the Democratic party, but they […]

Not having recursion is very inconsiderate of Fortran 77. Very inconsiderate.

Nice of them to let us know:
Second, I’d like to talk a little about the Santorum Social security event that I attended today. It was quite eventful and well attended, although I am pretty sure it was well attended because around six or seven different activist organizations had turned out in force. Outside the hall […]

Jonathan Chait had an interesting article in TNR (sub req’d) the other day. The main thrust is that liberalism is based upon empircism while conservatism is based on an ideology:
And not because conservatives are necessarily more stubborn. (Indeed, on an individual level, liberals may well be just as stubborn as conservatives.) Rather, conservatism, unlike liberalism, […]

Spam Karma has missed about 6 spam comments so far. It’s caught over 600, so that’s not bad at all. It’s also now blocked 2 of my own pingbacks. Odd.
I now have a little script up in the corner that shows what song I’m listening to/listened to last, via the Audioscrobbler service. Click on it […]