Are you aware of the MESSENGER space probe that just flew by the planet Mercury? You should check out the images being sent back to Earth of Mercury’s surface. Very cool, readers.
Mercury’s horizon, 14 January 2008, from MESSENGER probe
Jonah Goldberg’s new joint Liberal Fascism: Words Mean Whatever I Want Them To dropped today, and Dave Neiwert reviews it at The American Prospect.
Goldberg, who has no credentials beyond the right-wing nepotism that has enabled his career as a pundit, has drawn a kind of history in absurdly broad and comically wrongheaded strokes. It [...]
Could Adam Yoshida already have produced the wingnuttiest blog post of the year? 2008 is only a week old, readers, but Internet wingnuts are going to have their work cut out for them all year long. Look at what they’ll have to compete with:
One: Obama Can’t Prove He’s Not A Secret Muslim
Both [...]
The “Swift Boat Veterans for Truth” are now calling themselves “Swift Vets and POWs for Truth”, and they’re showering money on political candidates, Mitt Romney and John McCain in particular. Taking money from the Swift Vets is something of a flip-flop for Sen. “Straight-Talk” McCain; you may recall that he condemned them back [...]
Bradrocket at Sadly, No!:
Incidentally, Republicans, I think you should take the wingnuts’ advice and start attacking more working-class people who can’t afford health insurance. I guarantee it’s going to be a win-win stance on election day.
LOL, readers.
I think this is brilliant.
I gave up cigarettes on 21 October 2006 (hooray for me, BTW), but if I were still a smoker, I’d want one of these for sure. I can’t think of too many other pairs-of-things in the world that go together as well as coffee and cigarettes.
Today’s Daily Link is Canto One of The Wingnuttiad, a brilliant ode limning the heroic words and deeds of the right-wing blogosphere. This is some seriously funny stuff, readers:
“Check the kerning! link, link! and blather!
Years ago we got that bastard Rather!
If we cross-link enough, and fight fight fight,
In seven years we may once more [...]
An interview with Don DeLillo at Guernica magazine.
Don DeLillo: Absolutely. I was thinking about the impact of history on the smallest details of ordinary life, and I wanted to see if I could trace an individual’s interior life, day-by-day and thought-by-thought. It occurs to me that this could be the novelist’s initiative, even more [...]
Perhaps the ultimate case of road rage:
Stankovitch attempted to pass Goza and cut him off just south of Sunset Avenue, said Gurnee police officer David Ronzani. Only he wasn’t too successful.
Stankovitch lost control of his Volvo and jumped the curb, before flipping his car at least four times, taking out a power line and ending [...]
The Digital Dada Library Collection at the University of Iowa is amazing. You can download a huge number of Dada periodicals, books, pamphlets, etc. (in PDF format). Classics such as Tristan Tzara’s Vingt-cinq poèmes, with illustrations by Jean Arp (1918); Kurt Schwitters’ Anna Blume: Dichtungen (1919); Richard Huelsenbeck’s En avant Dada [...]
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