I just saw Christopher Hitchens — author of God Is Not Great — give a pretty amazing answer to a question about why the US is so much less receptive to atheism than Europe:
I think it’s hugely exaggerated. Everywhere I go, I find that everyone who comes to the meeting thinks that they’re [...]
It’s got to be hard being a Senate Republican these days. You’ve basically spent the last six years keeping your country embroiled in a ruinous, pointless war, despoiling the environment, sanctioning torture, and installing the apparatus for a police state. You’ve been as evil as you can possibly be. You’ve reached the pinnacle of nasty. [...]
I was watching baseball highlights on ESPN the other night when I had an epiphany.
Now, I know what you’re thinking, and you’re right. There are lots and lots of ways to waste the precious, fleeting, unrecoverable moments of your life, but watching a couple of snarky guys in suits spew tepid wisecracks over baseball replays [...]
I’m in the middle of having my mind blown by Jeff Vandermeer’s City of Saints and Madmen. It’s kind of ridiculous that I’ve gotten this far in life without ever encountering this book — because it’s an amazing accomplishment, creepy and lovely and riveting and beautifully, beautifully written. And right up my alley. This is [...]
The furor over the iPhone’s $200 price drop continues. Now, there are all kinds of reasons to be mad about this if you’ve already bought one. I imagine I’d be pissed. But Gruber makes a good case for why you can’t really consider this unfair, and Lord Jobs did the right thing by offering a [...]
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