Jimmy’s Roadside Cafe
My story, Jimmy’s Roadside Cafe, just went up on Strange Horizons!
A cautionary video about fantasy dogmatism:
I have to say, though — I’m with Tim.
(via Greg)
Shorter John Yoo testimony:
Conyers: Is the president allowed to bury people alive? Yoo: Evade hem haw evade bullshit evade. Conyers: IS THE PRESIDENT ALLOWED TO BURY PEOPLE ALIVE? Yoo: He probably wouldn’t want to do that anyway!
Just ran across a review of a book called Starbucked, which describes the mechanisms of Starbucks’ unlikely success. There’s a lot of focus-grouping involved in creating the Starbucks “experience”, apparently, and it grows out of a culture of new-age cookie-cutterism and aggressive homogeneity-breeding. This has the reviewer feeling a bit dyspeptic:
There is something [...]
I went my dentist the other day with swollen gums and walked out with a murdered tooth. He called it a root canal, but that’s just what passes for euphemism in the dental community. This was an execution.
How could this happen? Well. Apparently, some portion of the inside of one of my molars got sick [...]
If there’s any silver lining to the outrageous FISA bill that the Democrats rammed through congress today, it’s this: we now know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the government doesn’t give a shit about our privacy. That doesn’t go for everyone in government, of course1, but the don’t-give-a-shit contingent is almost always larger [...]
Congressional democrats are about to cave in again, and this time it’s serious. They’ve apparently come to a “compromise” on the telecom amnesty bill, which gives the telecommunications companies who have been spying on us for the last six years — listening to our calls, reading our emails, monitoring our browsing, all at the government’s [...]
One of the reasons I find the Adam and Eve myth so odious is the role to which it implicitly consigns women: second-fiddle organisms made out of the master sex’s cast-off rib parts. That’s one interpretation, anyway — but, given the way that women are treated in the rest of the Bible, it’s almost certainly [...]
Most of what I do on this blog is bitch about stuff, which means that when I mention Apple or macs or iPhones, I’m generally complaining. Which is unfortunate, and misleading. I’m a fairly recent convert to the church of Jobs, but — like most people who come late to their zealotry — I’m about [...]
More bad news on the iPhone front today. Lord Jobs unveiled the latest iteration yesterday, faster and thinner and, if possible, even purdier than before. It remains one of the loveliest consumer devices ever to grace our narrow visual spectrum, but its unholy coupling with AT&T has just become more bindingly unholy. They now require [...]
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