The All-Important Social Safety Net - Remember, the regulatory state exists to protect you, the citizen. In Kissimmee, Florida, they are especially keen to protect you from unlicensed friends:
Arzoomanian had taken over the home after his mother died in May and had not had time to get homeowners insurance. His 4,000-square-foot shingled roof had taken […]

Hey Kids! Comics Blogging! - It’s worth noting that Alex Knapp and Paul Muller at the traditionally political blog, Heretical Ideas, have been comics-blogging off and on for several months now. Those of you who read comics blogs or maintain links to comics blogs should keep this in mind. And of course these things feed […]

Hey Kids! Comics! - Estimable comic book reviewer Johanna Draper Carlson like’s Peter David’s almost-undiscovered DC series, Fallen Angel, so much that she’s running a contest to promote it. You can win free Fallen Angel paperback collections (signed) and single issues. Among the virtues of Fallen Angel is that it deliberately eschews the standard pictorial […]

Wilderness of Persians - The point gets made every time the Jonathan Pollard case comes up that, once you decide to spy for another country, you can never be too sure who you’re spying for. “False flag” operations are standard procedure for the world’s intelligence agencies. Thus it doesn’t matter whether Israel is an ally, […]

Back from Hiatus - Not me. Salam. He’s making a documentary film about the Mahdi Army and just spend two and a half days in Najaf. If anything happens to him I swear I’m going to drive to Minnesota and piss in James Lileks’ eyes.
Go read!
UPDATE: I mean, read, for fuck’s sake:
We are standing […]

The Last Place on Urth - Doh! That arresting image of Wadi-Us-Salaam Cemetery has been nagging at me for days, and I only just placed it now.
To those who have preceded me in the study of the posthistoric world, and particularly to those collectors - too numerous to name here - who have permitted me […]

Don’t You Like to Watch Two Lesbians Playing Pool? is a question more candidates should be required to answer. And in deliberately satirical news, Andy Borowitz reports: GREEK SECURITY TEAM FAILS TO NOTICE GIANT HORSE (Both links via Mrs. Offering.)