Yes’s Machine Messiah is a great song.
That’s all.

I mentioned the Montana Vortex a while back. It seems that since then they’ve built themselves a web site with all sorts of wacky information.
Did you know they have a circle you can walk around? I bet not:
The healing Labyrinth is a new addition to the vortex grounds and we invite you to take a […]

Peter Beinart’s The Good Fight is an interesting, but flawed, book.
Beinart’s book breaks down into two parts. The first half of the book is a history of cold war liberalism and its influence on American foreign policy. Beinart lionizes Harry Truman as a model for hawkish liberal foreign policy, as would be expected from a […]

You can’t not think this is funny.

(via Respectful Insolence)

So, I was flipping channels a bit ago and went past C-SPAN. I was slightly surprised at what they have on. They have Alex Jones and a bunch of like minded people discussing 9/11. When I say discuss, I mean ranting about how 9/11 was an inside job. That’s what’s on C-SPAN.
So, what, is the […]

Well, I’ve finally put Ubuntu on my new desktop. The only serious problem I’ve had so far is my mouse not being recognized at certain times. Other than that, fairly smooth. My NTFS partition is mounted and read/writable. MP3s are playing and my video files work (even the WMV files, which was surprisingly easy considering […]

Ever heard of Stop The ACLU? Buncha lunatics, more or less. Did you know there’s a Montana chapter?
Holy fucking shit. Just read the subtitle:
The ACLU (Satan’s Army) is hell-bent on removing the Christian God from American society in the name of other’s rights not to see, hear or speak of it. They are the tool […]

You know what’s kind of interesting? Osama bin Laden’s OFAC file. It has the many aliases of al Qaeda (also found in the document linked here):
AL-JIHAD
EGYPTIAN AL-JIHAD
EGYPTIAN ISLAMIC JIHAD
INTERNATIONAL FRONT FOR FIGHTING JEWS AND CRUSADES
ISLAMIC ARMY
ISLAMIC ARMY FOR THE LIBERATION OF HOLY SITES
ISLAMIC SALVATION FOUNDATION
NEW JIHAD
“THE BASE”
THE GROUP FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE HOLY SITES
THE […]

Matt Yglesias makes an excellent point against Dershowitz’s application of his “continuum.” Again, Dershowitz is right to note that there is some moral ambiguity in what are civilian deaths, but calling anyone who doesn’t leave an area which Israel wants to bomb complicit is absolutely wrong.
As Matt points out, Dershowitz’s claim essentially erases the distinction […]

I heard this on MSNBC the other day and thought it was strange. The reporter, speaking about the president of Iran, said:
He’s even questioned the existence of the Holocaust.
Well, I don’t believe the Holocaust exists either. Granted, that’s because it ended in the mid-1940s, but still.
Is “historicity” really that obscure of a word?